Once in place on the fine bridge of her nose, the glasses shaded her eyes, hiding their unusual turquoise green color without concealing the curling length of her thick lashes. With one hand on the steering wheel, she fumbled through her oversize leather purse for the dusty, rose-shaded sunglasses. A dull pain throbbed at Jacquie’s temples, an unpleasant reminder of the too many tequila cocktails she had consumed last night. Neither would she if it hadn’t been for the fact that her girl friend Tammy had recently moved there with her husband. With a wry smile curving the fullness of her mouth, she knew that no one mapping out a trip from Dallas to Los Angeles would ever succeed in including Bisbee along its path. Her start out of Bisbee, Arizona, had not been early, but considering the hour she had gone to bed the night before - or this morning, however one wished to look at it - she deserved congratulations for being behind the wheel at this moment.

The heat was oppressive on this September morning.Īctually it was closer to noon, Jacquie realized as the gold bracelets jangled away from the face of her wristwatch. The rocks and shrubs were jumbled in different order yet appeared almost identical. The road seemed to stretch through the same land. With over 300 million books in print in nineteen languages, Dailey remains one of the world’s most popular novelists.Īfter she had traveled westward from Dallas, Texas, for two days, the unending desert scenery had begun to bore Jacqueline Grey. Set beneath the blue skies of a spirited western town, The Master Fiddler is the searing story of strangers battling desire as only romance legend Janet Dailey can tell it. But before the hardhearted widower sets the spoiled beauty straight, he might learn a thing or two about love.

Now Choya is about to strip her bare of all her beliefs about what a man really wants from a woman-one smoldering kiss at a time. But with nowhere else to turn, she agrees to be his live-in housekeeper, despite his scandalous terms.

Jacquie Grey heads west, dreaming of a life outside her wealthy father’s influence, only to find herself stranded and broke in Tombstone, Arizona. She knows better than to accept the hard bargain offered by the arrogant stranger Choya Barnett. In Tombstone, Arizona, a woman surrenders to a stranger’s dangerous bargain-in this steamy romance from the New York Times–bestselling author.

The Master Fiddler by Janet Dailey