The ache had started an hour ago, and it suddenly had escalated. At first she’d thought it was an emotional response to taking that risk with Leif and putting herself on the line. Again. The offer had drummed up memories of old arguments with her mother, too. How they’d fo...
Today, twenty years later, she worked like a madwoman to prepare a meal for her coworker, Jon Becker. She used whole tomatoes and garlic cloves, fresh basil and, because she liked tangy instead of sweet, she added her signature dash of balsamic vinegar to the marinara sauce. Then she went the ext...
His mind had been wandering between the appointments, and Stephanie Bennett was the reason. She was as guarded as a locked box. Then out of nowhere today this fun-loving Santa-of-the-world fan had emerged, and it had backfired and landed him on a date with a red suit. Something held her back from...
Complicating things, she never knew when Jackson would pop in her office, his mere presence reminding her how much she wanted him. Usually his visits were after a particularly stressful surgery. He would drop in, close the door, and dance her into the corner to kiss her hard and thoroughly then m...
The next morning, Claire’s eyes popped open to find Gina jumping on the bed in her powder-puff-pink sleeper. She’d meant to wake Jason up early before Gina got up, and to have it appear as if he’d shown up for breakfast, but they’d made love throughout the night and finally, just before dawn, col...
Though viable outside the womb, this baby was over eight weeks premature. Her lungs weren’t ready for life in the big, bad, smog-ridden Los Angeles basin. He squinted and pinched his nose as nightmarish thoughts appeared about the loss of his own child to crib death six years ago. He shook his he...