Batteries Not Required
by Linda Lael Miller

Handle with Care.

Experience has taught Gayle Hayes one thing: men are jerks.
And after forgetting that one lesson again and again, Gayle
has decided to come back to her small-town Montana roots and
reset her curlers, so to speak. The last person she expects
to run into is her former high school sweetheart. With his
steely grip and steady gaze, rodeo bad boy Tristan
McCullough isn’t quite the boy she left behind. What
hasn’t changed is the spark still zinging between
them—and with a little luck, a little timing, and
exactly the right touch, it just might light up the rest of
their lives together . . .

Originally published June 2005 in trade paperback within
the anthology, BEACH BLANKET BAD BOYS and July 2013 in mass
market paperback within the anthology HE’S THE ONE by
Kensington.

Other Books by Linda Lael Miller

Arizona Wild
Mojo Sheepshanks Book 1

Linda Lael Miller's Bio

The daughter of a town marshal, Linda Lael Miller is a #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of more than 100 historical and contemporary novels, most of which reflect her love of the West. Raised in Northport, Washington, Linda pursued her wanderlust, living in London and Arizona and traveling the world before returning to the state of her birth to settle down on a horse property outside Spokane. Linda traces the birth of her writing career to the day when a Northport teacher told her that the stories she was writing were good, that she just might have a future in writing. Later, when she decided to write novels, she endured her share of rejection before she sold Fletcher's Woman in 1983 to Pocket Books. Since then, Linda has successfully published historicals, contemporaries, paranormals, mysteries and thrillers before coming home, in a literal sense, and concentrating on novels with a Western flavor. For her devotion to her craft, the Romance Writers of America awarded her their prestigious Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. Hallmark Movie Channel is developing a series based on Linda's Big Sky Country novels. Her latest book, Forever a Hero, a March 21, 2017 HQN Books release, is the third in her Carsons of Mustang Creek series. Her first mainstream Civil War novel will be published in May 2018. Dedicated to helping others, "The First Lady of the West" personally financed fifteen years of her Linda Lael Miller Scholarships for Women, which she awarded to women 25 years and older who were seeking to improve their lot in life through education. She anticipates that her next charitable endeavors will benefit four-legged critters. More information about Linda and her novels is available at www.lindalaelmiller.com, on Facebook and from Nancy Berland Public Relations, nancy@nancyberland.com, 800-308-3169.