When Rick Capriotti is hired over her as manager on the family horse farm, Ashley Meljac feels betrayed because Rick is a notorious bad boy who has only recently returned to Calhoun Corners. But Ashley's anger dissipates when she discovers he's an accidental father now struggling to raise a baby....
Subject: OVER MY HEAD! From: [email protected] To: [email protected] You know me too well to call me a hero, but I rescued two strangers from this deadly blizzard after spotting their vehicle !in near white-out conditions. Now I'm sharing a secluded cabin w...
I don't know where I've heard it, I'm not even sure of the complete story, but I remember one day, decades ago when I was in high school, about a guy talking about his dead girlfriend with whom he'd been rivals at school. I remember him telling they competed in about every single subject, always ...
CHAPTER NINEGINNY AWAKENED THE next morning with Dom’s arms wrapped around her waist. She squeezed her eyes shut, enjoying the sensation, then told herself she had to get her priorities in line before he woke up.They hadn’t talked the night before. They’d had an amazing time, but they hadn’t spok...
Disoriented, he sat up. His back was so stiff with prickly pain that he wondered if he’d slept on a bed of nails, then he glanced around and almost groaned. He was still in the god-awful house in the woods he’d found to shelter Zoe, her baby and himself. He was on the floor, sleeping atop the com...
ad for Buds and Blossoms was in and correct, Isabelle drove to the Donovan residence and found the back door of “the house” unlocked. Stepping into the quiet halls, she had to admit if she hadn’t just walked by a swimming pool, the space would feel more like a place of business than a home. She t...
Ellie looked up from the cookbook she was scouring for recipes. “I’m taking the kids next door to visit Mrs. Pomeroy.” She frowned at him. “Your neighbor?” “Yes. She’s an old family friend.” Lacy sheepishly said, “I like her.” “Well, of course, you do, sweetie,” Ellie said, stooping down to Lacy’...
She walked out, handed her gown to him and watched him drop it to the floor about halfway down a discreet hallway. Then he walked her to a back door. He motioned for her to go before him into a thin, quiet hall. “This corridor is private. Even servants aren’t allowed to us...
Her self-pity long forgotten and her new mission in place, she was glad to help tired, frazzled Rory with his daughter. It would give her a chance for some one-on-one time with Finley, a chance to prove to herself that she was strong enough to be around kids. Strong enough to adopt one of her own...
She reached over and pawed the bedside table to snag it. When she saw the name on caller ID, her breath stuttered out. Cain. He’d kissed her the night before. She’d wanted him to. Her insides tightened at the memory. She’d always loved him and now he was behaving as if he loved her, too. Doing th...
The soothing voice of the GPS rolled into Althea Johnson’s car, and she maneuvered her vehicle as directed, onto the snow-covered Main Street of Worthington, Pennsylvania. The week after Thanksgiving, the little town sparkled with the spirit of Christmas. Tinsel connected to telephone poles loope...
She climbed the steps. At the top she paused, taking one final look at the beautiful Italian countryside. Bernice had tried to talk her out of leaving, but she’d explained that her mind was made up. She said goodbye to Rosina and drove herself to the airstrip, leaving Anto...
Jason joined him in the penthouse suite for breakfast. After room service wheeled in their cart, Jason said, “So where’d you go last night?” Dean kept his attention on his tablet. He’d pulled up the Wall Street Journal and was reading the highlights...
By the time it had, he’d raced to the entryway but the taxi in front of his house was already driving off. Holding the Mother’s Day card his daughter had made for Kara, he backed away from the front door slowly. His heart jackhammered in his chest. His pulse thumped. His brain overloaded. In a fe...
She hadn’t yet hired an assistant. She’d put an ad in the papers for the nearby cities, and a few responses had trickled in. But she wasn’t about to jump into anything. She wanted time for interviews and to check references. He couldn’t argue with that. Which meant he’d ne...
Madelyn and Ty hadn’t really spoken since their conversation when she told him she wanted his heart, but she had watched him wage a battle of sorts all week. Try as he might, he couldn’t go back to being Tyrant Ty. He wanted to. She knew he believed that was how he had become successful. But afte...
For weeks, he’d been living with the knowledge that people were figuring out he wasn’t Hunter’s father. The fact that Lonnie had admitted it shouldn’t mean anything.But it did.Not because of the town. Because of Piper. Now that Lonnie had come clean, there was no reason for them to stay away from...
He told himself it was ridiculous to be attracted to somebody closer to Brody’s age than his own—and with a baby, no less—but it didn’t stop the tightness that had captured his chest. “Um, Drew?” He stopped. Half afraid she was about to say something about their attraction—maybe even tell him she...
She dressed in work trousers and a thick sweater, then bundled herself in her quilted parka, a scarf and mittens. She rode the subway to Manhattan and an ordinary, crowded elevator to the twenty-ninth-floor law offices of Pearson, Pearson, Leventry and Downing. She slipped...