Sweet Adversity — Kate Meriwether

Probation officer Meredith Jennings gave her whole heart to her job . . . until the day that job led her into the chambers of Judge Warren Baxter.

Suddenly she saw career demands--hers and his -- in a different light, because they were keeping her from something she wanted: entry into the handsome judge's very private life. He had put her heart on trial and the only possible sentence was life--together.