Rumor Has It

Fiction. Romance. HTML: Katie Quaid could never refuse a dare. It was the quality that had once made her a world-class equestrian. And it was the reason she�d been elected to introduce herself to Briarwood�s intimidatingly gorgeous new resident. It took one week to make Nick Leone the focus of the Virginia town�s rumor mill. So far he was a CIA agent, a male model, a fugitive�maybe all three. Whatever Nick was, Katie learned one thing right away: she liked him. And that made him the greatest danger she�d faced since the accident that had ended her riding career. In the five years since, she�d buried herself in her business of restoring historic homes, afraid to share her scars with any man�scars that had destroyed more than one dream. Nick had disappointments of his own, but after meeting Katie, he sensed that fate had a better plan all along. And soon he would pose her with the greatest dare of all�to love again..… (more)