num_pages: 108
description: He knows that Copper Ridges newest bartender is running from her past but will he recognize that shes his last chance at salvation before she leaves town? Aiden Crawford knows all about responsibilities. Hes already shouldering more than his share when beautiful drifter Casey James cruises into town with a broken car a chip on her shoulder and enough secrets to have her ready to leave Copper Ridge the second she can afford the auto mechanics bill. Aiden has no time for long-legged sultry-eyed complications especially when he catches her joyriding in his fathers car but when he realizes that shes hungry and homeless he grits his teeth and does what he does best: takes on another persons problems as his own. Casey is no mans charity projectshe takes care of herself and thats all she needs to survive. But in the gruff and ruggedly gorgeous Aiden she finds a man whose demons match her ownand who tempts her to stop running once and for all. Yet even if she finds the courage to stay can she convince him that a future together is possible before time runs out?
language: English
title: Hometown Heartbreaker
publisher: HQN Books