PLAYING HOUSE WAS MORE THAN A GAME...Ashley Allison was a hardworking, dedicated attorney who knew just what she wanted -- and it wasn't a husband. She was very sure of that, until she stepped into an elevator one night and a bonze-skinned, blue-eyed stranger thrust a baby into her arms and introduced her as his wife. Rafe McCord was the most audacious, unsettling man Ashley had ever encountered. He maneuvered her first into a marriage of convenience, then into his bed. And before long he had convinced her that a husband like him was exactly what she wanted!
She thought Jake was a swaggering cowboy. He thought Shanda was a snooping iceberg. Shanda St. James made documentary films in L.A. Usually her subjects were mere sparks for her creative imagination. But a trip to Oklahoma's sprawling oil country revealed an intriguing--and personal--story. Jake McCade, heir to the McCade oil fortune, knew his family secrets, and was determined to keep them in the family. But Shanda posed a threat to his-privacy, as she delved more and more into the past. Her curiosity brought out more than family history--it made him determined to make her McCade's woman!
On her way to order wedding announcements for her and her staid banker fiance's upcoming nuptials, Katharine come face-to-face with with her past--in the form of devilish good looks and deep blue eyes. There's no mistaking it. He is her Danny. The same Danny who had died 10 years ago, and had taken a piece of heart with him. Original.
"At 27, Meg Delany was quickly approaching spinsterhood - according to eberyone in her small Midwestern town. The gossip didn't bother her, but she still felt plagued by the nesting instinct... Marriage-shy Zeke Wilson would do anything to avoid going down the aisle, but if that was the only way he'd get heirs to his prosperous farm, then maybe he'd have to turn in his bachelor shoes... Everything was fine - until Meg began to fall in love with a man who thought love was nothing but trouble..."
NO STRINGS ATTACHEDCassandra Leigh Addams couldn't quite believe the mess she'd gotten herself into. Her make-believe engagement to her boss, infamous, charismatic Brandon Marcus, had somehow turned into a real-life marriage--and she didn't know what in the world she was going to do about it.She was furious with her new "husband" and at herself for going along with his idiotic scheme to fool the world and the gossip columnists. Brand swore they could play house for a while and then dance away from it all--no muss, no fuss, no bother. But when he kissed her, when he touched her, it didn't feel like playacting to Cassie. It felt like the real thing.
Carling Templeton is fit to be tied! Here she is, an independent, enlightened 20th-century woman--about to be sold into marriage like some sort of medieval bride. Even worse, her husband-to-be is the insufferable cattle rancher Kane McClellan. Carling thinks he is infuriating, so she never expects her "I won't" to turn to "I will" the second she says "I do." .
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The high-society Holbrook wedding posed an unusual problem for bridal consultant Amanda Stratton. How would she deal with the father of the bride –who happened to be Amanda’s first love? Ethan Holbrook had convinced Amanda that love conquered feuding fathers and different backgrounds. Then Ethan had stood her up on the most important night of her life. Amanda thought she’d put the past behind her-until planning sessions with Ethan stirred memories of desire…and brought home the shocking truth Amanda had been denying for too many years.
For weeks John Lonigan had been repairing Abby's farmhouse, male-bonding with her nephew and coaxing smiles from her shy little niece. John wasn't Abby's good friend or her lover, so why then had he proposed marriage? Abby didn't know. What she did know was that she needed help with her makeshift family and he needed to settle down, making marriage the practical answer. Original.
Rachel Hadley needs help. She has no job, no home, and nowhere to turn--until her very own Lone Ranger rides into town and carries her away to his sprawling Montana ranch. He offers Rachel a job, then a fantasy home, and finally his hand in marriage. But is the cowboy offering his heart? Original.
Diana Winsted sees marriage as a business merger. Ross St. Clair runs from one adventure to the next, and as far away from marriage as he can get. Neither is interested in the other, not even a little bit. Or are they?