The Sweet Hayden Hideaway SeriesBook Five. AROUND THE BENDKristi Bartowski has raised four intelligent, beautiful and successful children while building a rental empire.

After being widowed almost two decades ago, a recent chance encounter with a younger man has her imagining a new life for herself, one that involves love again. Russell Riley hasn’t been able to get the woman he met, and let walk away two years ago out of his head.

Without learning anything about her besides her first name, he always wondered what could have been if he was in a different place in his life? What are the chances they would meet twice?Book Six. CHASING RAINSierra Riley was offered her dream in the form of a lodge and its rental cabins.

Taking over at the Sweet Hayden Hideaway for her new stepmother, Kristi Bartowski, meant moving from Denver to Idaho. It was a leap she took willingly at a chance to supervise her own retreat.

Just as she is settling in, her father, Russell Riley, makes an announcement that he is selling his business and retiring to spend more time with his new wife. Sierra is all for her father’s happiness until she learns the man buying him out was her first kiss and doesn’t even remember her.

Spencer Giddings is that man. Charismatic, athletic, intelligent, a lady’s man who forgot all about the girl he kissed in the closet when he went off to college.

Buying out Russell Rileys, a god among Kayakers, business has him staying at the Sweet Hayden Hideaways while the business deal of his life is buttoned up. Idaho in the spring offers some of the country’s best white water, but the best thrill of all doesn’t come from sprinting down the Salmon River, it comes from reuniting with the girl who got away.

When the stunning Sierra walks back into his life, he does everything at his disposal to make sure he won’t forget her again. .