Bestselling author and infamous town hermit Radcliffe McQueen knows what he likes, what he doesn't, and refuses to pretend social niceties—particularly with a red-hot mess of a woman who's taken it upon herself to smooth his rough edges. She thinks she can change him? Bring it. He's more than willing to teach her the wisdom of doing things his way. Besides, having her around might distract him from the horror of facing the blinking cursor of writer's block.
Stodgy. Stubborn. Sanctimonious. Sheri Riddle can think of a long list of adjectives to describe her newest project. An artist by trade, a personality renovator by calling, she's sure she can transform the blockheaded author into a reasonably personable human being.
Yet as they lock horns, each scrapes away layers of the other until something happens that's quite outside of Sheri's plans. Something that'll take more than one taste of passion to satisfy...
