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Marooned with the Maverick
Christine Rimmer
ISBN: 978-1-472-00503-8
MAROONED WITH THE MAVERICK
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Published in Great Britain 2020
by Mills & Boon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF
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Contents
For my dad.
I love you, Dad.
And miss you so much!
At 2:10 in the afternoon on the Fourth of July, Collin Traub glanced out the great room window of his house on Falls Mountain and could not believe what he saw in the town down below.
He stopped stock-still and swore under his breath. How could the situation have gotten so bad so fast? He probably should have been keeping an eye on it.
But he’d been busy, his mind on work. And it was later than usual when he stopped for lunch and came upstairs.
To this.
He could kick his own ass for not paying more attention. It had to be about the wettest day on record in Rust Creek Falls, Montana. The rain had been coming