title: Truly Madly Yours
author:  Rachel Gibson 
description: Delaney Shaw plans to get in and out of her hometown in the time it takes to attend her stepfather Henry's funeral, read the will, and refill the tank of her Miata. Even the pleas of her mother and the tension of an unfinished fling with Henry's bastard son, Nick Allegrezza, can't keep her in Truly, Idaho. But Henry had other plans in mind: Nick and Delaney's inheritance is contingent on her staying in Truly for a year, and him having no "sexual relationship" with Delaney. What's a girl to do? Delaney digs in, starts up a hair salon and prepares to grit her teeth for as long as it takes.
zlib_text: Truly Madly Yours
  
    
  
  Rachel Gibson
  
    
  
  Prologue
  
    
  
  The red glow from a space heater touched the creases and folds of Henry Shaw’s
  face, while the nicker of his beloved Appaloosas called to him on the warm
  spring breeze. He plugged an old eight-track cassette into its player, and the
  deep, whiskey-rough voice of Johnny Cash filled the small tack shed. Before
  Johnny had found religion, he’d been one kick-ass carouser. A man’s man, and
  Henry liked that. Then Johnny had found Jesus and June and his career had gone
  to hell in a hand basket. Life didn’t always go according to plan. God and
  women and disease had a way of interfering. Henry hated anything that
  interfered with his plans.
  
  He hated not being in control.
  
  He poured himself a bourbon and looked out the small window above his work
  bench. The setting sun hung just above Shaw Mountain, named after Henry’s
  ancestors who’d settled the rich valley below. Sharp gray shadows sliced
  across the valley toward Lake Mary, named for Henry’