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About this book

Milly's dream of making it as a jockey are in tatters when she finds herself stuck on her parent's stud farm outside Newmarket. Her father has told her she will be doing no more riding, after an accident, and her mother's determined to make Milly more ladylike, so Milly is forced to watch as her odious brother Jasper pursues the career that she so desperately wanted for herself. Then to add insult to injury for Kate, she finds that Bobby Cameron, said to be the best trainer in America, last in the line of an old cowboy family and heir to the Highwood ranch in California, has been brought in by an owner. Bobby has every woman on the racing circuit falling at his feet, but when he asks Milly to work on his ranch, it seems that all her prayers have been answered - more than she ever bargained for ...

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Tilly Bagshawe

12 June 1973

Matilda Emily N. Bagshawe was born on 12 June 1973 in England, UK. She attended local all-girls Catholic schools near her family home in Surrey. She was a single mother at 17, but she won a place at Cambridge University and took Persephone, her ten-month-old baby daughter with her. As a journalist, she went on to enjoy a successful career in London, and contributed regularly to The Sunday Times, Daily Mail and Evening Standard, before turning her hand to novels. Her first book, Adored as Tilly Bagshawe, was a smash hit on both sides of the Atlantic in 2005, and she hasn't looked back since. Tilly is married Robin Nydes, a US businessman, and the couple have two own sons, Zac and Theo. The…