In small town Montana, deserted mother Maisie finds unexpected love with protective cowboy Joe, but can they overcome her violent past and find happiness together?

Maisie’s wedding night did not go as she expected. Five years later, deserted and with two kids, she keeps her head down terrified her husband might return.
The married and the moms are on Joe’s ‘not to be messed with’ list but when he sees Maisie being molested by a customer where she works he steps in to protect her. As Maisie and her kids start to slip under his skin and into his heart he begins to realise that he wants a woman and a family of his own. But Maisie still wears her husband’s ring.
As Maisie grows closer to Joe he rouses longings she believed had been beaten out of her. Joe’s care forces her to review her life and she begins to wonder if she has the courage to risk challenging her husband’s hold over her.
Can a lonely cowboy find his dream and can Maisie ever be free? As friendships grow in the wild-flower meadows of Montana is the future to be love and happiness?
Or will violence rain down forcing them to lose them everything, even their lives?

Previously published as Joe, Al, the Alien and the Girl with Thistledown Hair by Barber, Meg (Author), possibly the least helpful title in history.