Telluride Trilogy Series by Nikki Duvall

Big city girl with too many vials of prescription painkillers in her Prada bag runs to a small town, high powered boyfriend on her heels. Gets in repeated accidents. Hides medical records at the bottom of a dresser drawer. Pays cash for a ramshackle house, refuses help from anyone. Too fascinating for mountain guide Wes Satterfield to resist, even if he has been burned by beautiful tourists in the past. Playing hero is Wes’ specialty... moreBig city girl with too many vials of prescription painkillers in her Prada bag runs to a small town, high powered boyfriend on her heels. Gets in repeated accidents. Hides medical records at the bottom of a dresser drawer. Pays cash for a ramshackle house, refuses help from anyone. Too fascinating for mountain guide Wes Satterfield to resist, even if he has been burned by beautiful tourists in the past. Playing hero is Wes’ specialty. Headstrong and cocksure, Wes can’t pass up the chance to save the new woman in town who appears to be a magnet for disaster. But Wes’ new interest is anything but willing to be saved. She’s on a mission to live out her last days no holds barred, even if that means passing up the love of her life. less

Julia Hoffman made two vows before her twentieth birthday, wedding vows to an abusive husband and a vow to her dying mother to respect life at all costs. Now her husband is dead and has left behind a new life growing inside her, a life that will force her to choose between her vows and another chance at love. Jake Harris has vowed to never leave the land and the cattle his family has run on the mesas above Telluride, Colorado, for six generations... moreJulia Hoffman made two vows before her twentieth birthday, wedding vows to an abusive husband and a vow to her dying mother to respect life at all costs. Now her husband is dead and has left behind a new life growing inside her, a life that will force her to choose between her vows and another chance at love. Jake Harris has vowed to never leave the land and the cattle his family has run on the mesas above Telluride, Colorado, for six generations. But when Julia flees to her Kansas farm roots to start a new life, Jake learns that love is more powerful than tradition and sometimes vows are meant to be broken. less

Geli Benson has been in love with hometown heart throb Harley Bowen since she was fifteen, so in love that at sixteen she jumped in the backseat with a local good for nothing just to be the kind of exciting girl Harley might desire. But Harley joined the Marines that summer and Geli gave birth to a son, a secret she’s kept till now... moreGeli Benson has been in love with hometown heart throb Harley Bowen since she was fifteen, so in love that at sixteen she jumped in the backseat with a local good for nothing just to be the kind of exciting girl Harley might desire. But Harley joined the Marines that summer and Geli gave birth to a son, a secret she’s kept till now. Raised by Geli’s sister Paula for the first twelve years, Geli gets her child back at her sister’s funeral and trades her title of high priestess of the party scene for chief cook and bottle washer. Harley Bowen is a successful businessman who rules his life with the discipline of a Marine corpsman. So when the object of his desire refuses his advances, Harley proposes a contract, complete with a performance clause. Geli Benson must spend one week alone with him on his sailboat. If his performance doesn’t match her expectations, she can walk away with the thirty five thousand dollars he’s lent her for adoption fees and forget he’s ever existed. Now Geli is faced with two options. Marry the town doctor and live a respectable family life or indulge in the fantasy that has consumed her all these years. less