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Strings by Muriel Jensen released on Aug 25, 1988 is available now for purchase.
HE WAS THE RIGHT MAN --- AT THE WRONG TIME When she met Mr. Drop Dead Gorgeous, Diana Travis was smeared with chocolate, toting two wet toddlers and a fat bald cat. She was lost and courting disaster. Summering in the Hamptons with her twin nieces should have been no biggie for the "Mother Knows Best" columnist. But "Mother" had never had a real live kids to mind --- till now. Nor had she ever met a guy as sexy as Mr. Gorgeous --- a.k.a. Greg Stewart. Diana hadn't planned on falling in love till after Labor Day, when she had time. But Greg was dreamy. He was cool. He was clean. He was too early!
He was the right man . . . but it was the wrong time. Another Classic Romance from Barbara Bretton Diana Travis is the woman behind the wildly popular help column Mother Knows Best. The last few years have been a blur of hard work and no social life, so when her sister Paula offers her a month's free stay in a posh East Hampton beachfront cottage just for babysitting her twin toddler nieces, Diana jumps at the chance to spend July by the ocean. But it’s not all sun, surf, and sand. Diana has a plan for this summer: she’s going to lose ten pounds, meet her book deadline, and forget the fact that her ex-husband is about to become a father. Diana has almost everything she ever wanted but there’s one thing missing: she wants a family of her own. And come September, she’s going to put her heart and soul into making that dream come true. And then she runs headlong into Gregory Stewart, the tall dark and handsome veterinarian with the wicked grin and amazing hands, and her well-planned future goes up in smoke when she discovers her fantasy lover is a man with a secret that could change her life forever. Two rambunctious toddlers. An aging Abyssinian cat. A mouthy mynah bird. The man she'd waited a lifetime to find. And only 31 days to get it right. Previously published by Harlequin American as Mother Knows Best. Grab your copy today!
Armed With Love Widowed attorney Bryan Marlowe had no strategy in the war his mischievous boys were waging against every nanny he hired. Just as he reached his wit's end, he found spirited child psychology major Kate Llewellyn. She soon had the children under control...but the bubbly blonde was wreaking havoc on his well-ordered emotions! Kate knew Bryan had lost faith in romance long ago. He didn't think he needed a woman's touch, but she knew better. Top priority on her list of duties was to prove to Bryan that love and heartache weren't one and the same. She'd won the battle-of-the-boys with persistence and a good dose of old-fashioned love. Now their handsome father was going go get a hearty helping!
When Abby Shay’s impetuous mother, Blanche loses her heart and family heirloom to a Cupid Connection paramour, the feisty private eye sees no choice but to infiltrate the dating service to settle the score. Undercover as a saucy divorcee, Abby runs straight into sexy race car driver, Nick Farrell, son of Blanche’s main squeeze! Turns out the Farrell men have Cupid issues of their own, utmost their attraction to the Shay ladies. Not one to mix business and pleasure, Abby attempts to deflect Cupid’s zinging arrows at every opportunity during a dating service arranged vacation. But Nick is one determined match who has no trouble pursuing romance along with the bad guys under a seductive albeit dangerous Mazatlan moon.
Romance; Moonlight and Love [Mass Market Paperback] [Jan 01, 1990] Linda Turner
Book Hunky Henry Myles wanted to make sure that beautiful single mom Jess Whalen left town for good. So when his wealthy grandfather asked him to accompany her on her road trip "for protection", he couldn't resist. But Henry also couldn't resist Jess's honesty, her beauty and her ability to smile in the face of disaster- and her two cranky but adorable fatherless children- no matter where they parked the station wagon!
Seventeen years ago Camille Wyatt watched heartbroken as her young lover left town, thinking he'd never return. Now Linc Barnett was back - no longer the boy she'd loved, but a man full of passion and secrets, and with a child that should have been hers. Linc could only wonder what life with Camille would have been like if lies and jealousy hadn't torn them apart. He was back in town, his young, motherless daughter by his side, and this time he would claim all that was rightfully his - including Camille.
Past transgressions haunted Hope Barrister, whose beauty helped her rise from a tenant farm to a Texas fortune. But her quiet loveliness concealed dark secrets she'd long kept safe, to protect her young son…. Chase Barrister found Hope enigmatic and elegant—but she tasted of forbidden fruit. Years ago, Chase had fled his father's legacy, but he'd taken memories of his stepmother and his own bittersweet desire. After his father's death, Chase returned to Texas and Hope. Would he be caught in the web of familial deceit…or untangle an honest love and truly come home?
Gerrity's Bride by Carolyn Davidson released on Oct 25, 1995 is available now for purchase.
Bound For Bliss by Kristine Rolofson released on Jan 25, 1990 is available now for purchase.