AND BABY MADE THREE.When Kate Sinclair impulsively agreed to become a surrogate mother for a divorced socialite, she hadn't counted on the other woman reneging on the contract midway through the pregnancy--and telling Kate she'd changed her mind and no longer wanted the baby.That left Kate with n...
Davey, with a big happy smile on his face, leaned over the pen Nick had contrived for Bear in a corner of the kitchen, petting Bear while Bear barked and whistled and Nick unloaded more clams and oysters from the Tabor. Davey seemed entranced. "Being in the seafood business certainly has its adva...
He might have known she'd have someone else. He didn't know who it was, but he was a handsome man, and he was gazing down at Cathryn with unabashed desire. Well, what man wouldn't? Cathryn was beautiful, intelligent, and more desirable than any woman he'd ever met. The guy would be crazy not to w...
Children swirled around her as she stepped out into the bright sunshine, beautiful children with eager faces. Brown faces, black faces, white faces. "Lisa, welcome," called Sister Maria Francisco as she rounded the corner of the chapel, her abbreviated dove gray habit a solemn contrast to the rio...
They knew each other's minds as well as they knew each other's hearts. On this night, they would be together. "Juliana—are you sure?" Stephen asked her when they were in his room, the door shut between them and the rest of the family. His hands massaged her upper arms gently. "Yes," she whispered...
He was trying his best to impersonate a yachtsman, but even after two days in residence on Toy Boat, he felt like an interloper. The habitues of the Sunchaser Marina were a tight-knit group. They didn’t so much ignore him as act as if he didn’t exist. Well, his clothes might have had something to...
She'd been invited by Bonnie Trenholm, a midwife whom she'd met through her professional midwives' association. Bonnie worked with an obstetrician who had privileges at the largest hospital in Charleston and suggested that he might provide backup for Maura as well. "Dr. Urquehart is coming to a p...
Rick’s arm is around the back of my chair, but it’s an awkward posture, as if he wants to lower it to curve around my shoulders but doesn’t. I appear genuinely happy and relaxed, leaning toward Rick. My hand is almost, but not quite, touching his knee.As Rick and I played on the beach that Saturd...
Birds outside began to stir up a ruckus. Dixie stretched luxuriously and opened her eyes to find Kyle propped on an elbow, smiling at her.“Good morning,” Kyle said.“Morning.” She closed her eyes, opened them again to make sure she wasn’t dreaming. “Did we really do what I think we did last night?...
This time the floor was not so hard, and she was much more aware of Duncan's arms encircling her. She awoke suddenly and shivered despite Amos's comforting presence against her side. She eased onto her stomach, her favorite sleeping position, and dozed until Duncan came into the room shortly afte...
Sometimes Dixie accompanied them when she was due a break at the real estate office.One day Carrie, Dixie and Shasta stood near the park’s statue of a Confederate soldier and observed the movie people as they set up a scene involving Yancey Goforth and his friends. All Carrie knew from discussing...