Character Profiles

Single mom Katherine “Kat” Petroski, 31, is this close to finishing her degree and being able to stand on her own two feet. Not that she’s ever had much in the way of support from either her family or her ex-husbands. Her divorced parents were more concerned about hurting each other than making sure Kat’s emotional needs were being met. When she looked for love in the back seat of a car with her Homecoming King boyfriend, she got more – and less – than she bargained for. Twice. Now, she’s only interested in sexy Alpha males if they show up in her dream. When she rescues a RUB – rich, urban biker – from a bar fight and agrees to give him a henna tattoo, she feels perfectly safe because he’s so not her type. And when he offers to pay her to show him the “real” Black Hills, she can’t say no – the money will help pay for her older son’s dental work. But on their journey, they cross a line where dreams and reality get a little hazy. She makes love with one man but winds up pregnant by another.

Jackson Euwell Treadwell, III, 38, a successful orthodontist from Denver, bought a motorcycle to prove to his ex-fiancé that he had a sense of adventure. Jack was prepared to take risks but getting pummeled in a bar fight in a Deadwood bar wasn’t on his To-Do list. The pretty little barmaid who rescues him offers to give him a henna tattoo. He finds he’s attracted to her, but he has a strict rule: he doesn’t date women with children. But the fact that she shares his interest in history is too hard to resist, he hires her to show him the “real” Hills. Unfortunately, his body betrays him and he winds up with a medical emergency and in Kat’s hands for the night. Maybe it was the combination of old movies and prescription drugs, but his dream seems very real. He’s a dangerous gunslinger named Mad Jack. Sexy, forceful and sure of himself, Mad Jack sweeps the beautiful schoolmarm, Miss Katherine, off her feet. When they make love, Jack knows he’d be content to stay right where he is for the rest of his life. Too bad he doesn’t know where–-or when-–that is.