HIS LITTLE SISTER'S BEST FRIEND?

For Ben Tyler, his kid sister's closest friend Dusty?don't ever call her by her real name Destiny?Talley is always just around, giving him fits. That hasn't changed much over the years. Even though Dusty is a full-grown woman now.

A full-grown, beautiful, tempting, maddening, desirable woman, fully capable of capturing unsuspecting thriller novelists like Ben with a single smile. Who knew Dusty could smile at a man like that? Could make Ben feel like that?

So, what is a man supposed to do about a woman like her? Especially when that man is on a real deadline now? Avoidance is probably his best option.

But that's rather hard to do when the wiring in his apartment goes out and Ben is forced to check in at the Talley Inn...Where his Destiny awaits.

WHAT HAPPENS NOW?

She is a Talley of Masterson County. Dusty has always known who she is, where she comes from. So why does she feel so confused now?

Maybe it has to do with what happened to her before? Nearly being murdered eight months earlier had changed her?how could it not have? Now she's just...confused. About everything, really. Especially life. She's doing her best to figure things out. But...maybe... well... maybe Dusty really doesn't know what she wants right now.

AND THEN THERE IS...BEN.

Figuring out her best friend's annoying older brother does seem like a good place for Dusty to start. There is something different in the way that man is looking at her now. Something...hotter. More dangerous. Shiver-inducing and everything. Something that has her heart racing in a way she never imagined before.

Is it any wonder Dusty was so confused right now?

BUT TIME IS RUNNING OUT.

But someone else from the Talley Inn has an even bigger problem. They witnessed something in Masterson County twenty-three years ago, something that put their entire family at risk back then. They've been running ever since.

When Dusty crosses their path, choices have to be made. Choices that can change everyone's destiny forever. And answer questions that have haunted Dusty's family for decades now...

They know one thing?one wrong move, and Dusty will pay the price.

If Ben doesn't find her fast, he might just lose the woman he's destined to be with... forever.

DEFINING THEIR DESTINY is a full-length, small-town western romantic suspense novel and part of the Masterson County connected stand-alone series. The Masterson County series contains scenes of violence, adventure, occasional dark criminal behavior, moderate cursing?especially by villains, a few mild-to-moderate love scenes, and references to subject matter that may distress some readers. The Masterson County books contain the same level of descriptive content as a typical crime drama on network television?but good always wins out in the end, guaranteed.