A former biker turned stunt pilot who has every woman in town swooning after him, handsome, charming Jake Bishop was exacltly the kind of man chartered accountant Carol MacIntosh needed to spice up her carefully planned, down-to-earth life. And exactly the kind she didn’t want.

She was a professional, she told herself, not some hopeless romantic who got stars in her eyes and butterflies in her stomach whenever a blue-eyed handsome man chanced her way. And certainly not with the likes of Jake Bishop whose home was a housekeeper’s worst nightmare, whose business was teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, and whose past included a criminal record.

And yet he gave her heart wings.

Gail MacMillan has always wanted to be a writer. She was 30 years old when her first book, Forest of Fear, was published for Avalon in 1974. Since then she has gone on to write three novels for Avalon, a variety of articles and stories for magazines in Canada and the United States, and two books on her favorite dog, the Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever. For a 1992 article on this breed, Gail was awarded a Maxwell Medal in New York by the Dog Writers' Association of America for the best article in a canine magazine or newspaper.

Gail's other interests include reading, horses, and canoeing. She currently lives in Bathurst, New Brunswick with her husband, Ron, and two dogs, a Sheltie mix and, of course, a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever.

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