The Reluctant Hero - An Avalon Career Romance

by Bernadette Pruitt

Alison Perry arrives in historic Cimarron, Oklahoma, with dreams of converting an old Victorian house into a thriving bed and breakfast business. But the young widow and her four-year-old son soon discover their house’s charms are only siding deep. The foundation is cracked, the wiring is frayed, the plumbing leaks, and local legend has it that the house is haunted. When she goes to the man who sold her the house, darkly handsome FBI agent Stefan Yale, he infuriatingly refuses to investigate. But she doesn’t give up and soon he spends a night at the inn to do some ghost-busting. Even though neither of them is ready for a romance, they cannot deny the strong attraction between them. And soon Alison realizes something even more frightening than ghosts in her she has fallen for a man unwilling to take risks with his heart.

192 pages, Hardcover

First published April 24, 2000

About the author

Librarian Note: Also writes under the pen name Bernadette Tabor Pruitt and Annie Terniak.

Bernadette Tabor Pruitt started her writing career in the fifth grade with pretend newspapers showing male classmates behind bars. Despite that, she was later allowed to write for some real newspapers, including the Tulsa World and the Dallas Morning News. A graduate of the University of Oklahoma Professional Writing Program, she also taught journalism at the college level. A curious traveler, she once spent a year touring Europe and North Africa in a Volkswagen camper with her husband and two small dogs. Other interests include interior decorating, genealogy (she’s half Slavic) and reading. She and her husband live in Wichita Falls, Texas. Her latest book, “Oldies but Goodies,” is about three seniors who sneak off from a retirement home to right the wrongs of their pasts.