Heartland

Two strangers collide on an empty country road…accident or fate?

Political strategist Rachel Stanton, jaded and disillusioned by the scratching, clawing, and mudslinging of the campaign trail, books a week at the Springdale Ranch for a much-needed vacation. Springdale sounds like just the place to exorcise unhappy childhood memories and straighten out her head. Shivley McCoy has spent the last four years casting out her own painful past, working and sweating to make her ranch a successful business venture. She has nothing in common with fast-living Rachel Stanton, and after their inauspicious first meeting, is quite certain she’ll never see her again.

Shivley is thrown when she comes face-to-face with Rachel among her group of new arrivals, and sparks of a most unexpected sort ignite.

We have to stop meeting like this. People might talk.

And what would they say?

That we're madly in love and can't bear to be apart.

Julie Cannon is a native sun goddess born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. After a five year stint in "snow up to my #$&" and temperatures that hovered in the 30's, she returned to the Valley of the Sun vowing never to leave again. Julie's day job is in Corporate America and her nights are spent bringing to life the stories that bounce around in her head throughout the day.

Julie's short stories: The Happiest Place on Earth was published in Erotic Interludes 4, Extreme Passions and Free Fall was included in Erotic Interludes 5, Road Games. Her first full length novel, Come and Get Me was published in early 2007.

Julie and her partner Laura have been together for sixteen years and spend their weekends camping, riding ATV's or lounging around the pool with their seven year-old son and six year-old daughter.