How do they distill friendship into forever?

Elementary school teacher Pepper Montrose has only known hard luck for most of her life in little Bourbon Springs, Kentucky. Then her world is irrevocably changed by incredible good fortune—as well as an unexpectedly passionate encounter with Jon Buckler, her lifelong best friend and attorney for Old Garnet Distillery.

After Pepper makes a discovery that opens old wounds, she retreats to her new home, GarnetBrooke, the sprawling thoroughbred horse farm across the road from Old Garnet. Brokenhearted, she focuses her energy on building a retirement facility for thoroughbreds and devising plans for joint farm and distillery tours.

But Jon isn’t about to give up on a future with Pepper even as a new challenge in the form of a familiar face returns to Bourbon Springs. His instinct to protect her emerges—even though that same instinct has the power to tear them apart.

Distilled Heat is the sixth book in the Bourbon Springs Series of contemporary romances. The seventh book, Bottled Bluegrass, will be released in late spring 2016.