Librarian's Note: This is an alternate cover edition for ASIN B012OIDZUM
At 18, having once allowed her passion for a man free rein with devastating results, Jo Harrison decided she had minimal talent for being a woman so she might as well be the best man she could be. At 32 she’s a world class shearer, a knowledgeable farmer and a dedicated hunter of wild pigs and deer—and because of her height and sleek, muscular build, is occasionally mistaken for a young male in his 20’s. It will take an amazing man to recognize and resurrect the sensual woman beneath the determinedly masculine facade Jo presents to the world.
And definitely not one who has just shot the whole purpose of her life to hell and back by inheriting the farm next door and refusing to sell it to her as his uncle had promised to do.
Finn McCulloch had learnt the hard way that he didn’t have what it took to keep a wife happy and no longer cared to try. By a stroke of fate perfect for a second son, he’d inherited his estranged uncle’s farm and reclaiming the sadly neglected high country acreage had become his total focus. But by the time he realized that the confident young shearer who couldn’t disguise his attraction to him was a woman and not a guy, his relief was so intense it would not be denied.
‘I could shear the pants off you any day,’ she’d said when he’d doubted her ability on the shearing board. It was no idle boast he’d discovered, and the more he saw of Jo Harrison the more he wished he’d taken up the challenge—and lost.
Their two farms had once been a single entity and her rich river flats were exactly what his rugged high country needed to be a viable concern. The grand old colonial villa she lived in was part of his inheritance while he was reduced to existing in the almost derelict, rat-infested shack his uncle had preferred.
Jo Harrison’s lease only had a month to run and he had no intention of renewing it.
But fate, or was it perhaps the Spirit of the great brooding mountain, Ruapehu, had other plans. A house that size was definitely big enough for two…