He wanted a wife Simon Montcrief's wish seemed simple enough, Georgia Ingram decided. After all, marriage was the ultimate goal of all those who used her dating service, Cupid's Computer. But Simon also requested lessons in courting his future ...
She was looking forward to delicate negotiations... Libby Michalowski was livid. Being labeled a spinster and presented with a bizarre marriage contract had made her the laughingstock of her colleagues. Instead of winning her hand, Joseph Landowsk...
Pure chemistry! That Marcus Blackmore and Ann Somerton first met in a laboratory was fitting - they were about to become living proof that opposites do attract. Though it took a small mouse named Serendipity to mix things up, nature them took over...
CUPID IN DISGUISE Sophie Fontenelli was an expert on ancient Greece, not adolescent schoolgirls. So when asked to chaperone high-schoolers abroad, she was at a loss-especially when one of her blond "innocent" charges decided to test theories abou...
And this was only the beginning . . . Lost and unsuspecting, Jessie Anders stumbled into a madhouse disguised as a quaint Vermont inn. Not only did a "corpse" appear in her room that night, halt her rescuer, John Tarrant, obviously thought the sit...
She needed a man -- fast! Jenny Ryton was perfectly happy living over her quilt shop with a nine-year-old genius. But when a Social Services caseworker told her she would lose her young charge because she was single, Jenny vowed to marry. There ...
A SWEEPING HISTORICAL SAGA Well, not exactly. Still for Elspeth Fielding, helping James Murdoch research his eighteenth-century novel by living "in period" was a journalist's dream come true, for it gave her an inside look at the wildly successfu...
What had she done to deserve this? It just wasn't Eleanore Fulton's day. As it i weren't disaster enough, she suddenly found herself sole guardian of her cousin's baby. Then, to top it off, millionaire Arab playboy arrived on her doorstep with an ...
FULL COUNT Gorgeous baseball hero Jace McCormick was every woman's fantasy in the flesh. But Boston blue blood Christina Hollowell had no intention of succumbing to the sexy pitcher's big-league charms. In fact, she was furious to learn she and th...
His special offer tempted her to splurge... When Max Winthrop met Kiley Sheridan, he literally swept her off her feet! The department-store heir followed up with a dizzying kiss before realizing his mistake. Kiley was not the model he'd hired for...
GREAT EXPECTATIONS With her biological clock ticking and hopes of finding Mr. Right fading fast, Lucy Hartford decided to handle matters herself. But one little mix-up later, she was pregnant, but not by a safely anonymous donor--her baby's father...
A perfect ten Her beauty had always lure men to her. But stir. Emily McGregor felt like a fraud. Knowing that beauty was only skin-deep, she reluctantly agreed, to participate in a study of women's attractiveness. Then she learned what her role wa...
Triple-layered trouble Pastry chef Miranda Sheffield was confronted with a recipe for disaster! Take her husband, who had dumped her for a sweet young thing and demanded Miranda sell their catering business. Add an inheritance brimming with troubl...
THERE ARE SOME THINGS YOU NEVER FORGET... When a fifteen-year-old runaway landed on Marry Handley's doorstep claiming to be her daughter, Marry was confused. Surely, she --a psychologist!--would remember giving birth! Her next surprise came when s...
A GHOST OF A CHANCE Just one good deed was all it'd take for a certain rather lazy ghost to finally get into heaven and join his fiancee. And since the nice folks at the China View Inn figured a fake ghost would be good for business, well, maybe h...
JENNA FARRON: ARCHAEOLOGIST IN SEARCH OF A LOVE LIFE These days, eligible, attractive, single men weren't exactly coming out of the woodwork! So when Jenna stumbled across a gorgeous male specimen, she couldn't let a mere ten-thousand-year age dif...
MAIL-ORDER MRS. For Ann Lennon, traveling to Wyoming to marry a stranger made perfect sense. She needed a fresh start, and rancher Nick St. Hilarion needed a wife. All Ann wanted was to be a good mate. Then she laid eyes on her handsome groom .......
WANTED: MARRIAGE-MINDED MEN Addy Edson was looking for a husband, and she knew just the guy to help her with her search. But what she hadn't expected were the warm, sensuous "practice kisses" that her childhood friend Joe Barrington was bent on gi...
HOW FAR WOULD SHE GO...? The mission: Ginny Alton had agreed to impersonate her cousin and travel halfway around the world with a newborn in order to have the child meet his paternal grandfather. The complication: Everyone believed she was the...
THE FORTY-EIGHT-HOUR FIANCE... When Livvy Farrell asked her boss to masquerade as her fiance for the weekend, Conal Sutherland was more than willing to further employee relations. He'd long been envisioning schemes that moved Livvy from her desk a...
TWIN SHEIKS? Sheik Hassan Rashid had no intention of marrying a Western woman. Until his irresponsible twin skipped town and he found himself engaged to Kali Whitman -- his brother's fiancee! Hassan intended to masquerade as his twin only long eno...
A is for astonished and agog -- which were Julie Raffet's reactions when Caleb Tarrington, a most eligible -- and wealthy -- bachelor made his proposal! Caleb wanted a tutor for his newfound son -- but was Julie interested in a temporary position? ...
HER IMPOSSIBLE DREAM Widowed, wary of men, with her eggs in frozen storage, Vicky Sutton feared motherhood was forever beyond her reach. Until the impossible happened. Her eggs were illegally used to give a British aristocrat twin heirs! Vicky ...
THE BOSS HAD AMNESIA... and thought Jocelyn was his wife! Little did the domineering CEO know that the woman watching him with a love-softened gaze was none other than his secretary, Jocelyn Stemic. Though Lucas Forester had regained bits of his m...
As soon as he saw her, Dr. Nick Balfour wanted to rescue the naive beauty and keep her safe. And so when Gina Tessereck became stranded in the middle of nowhere, Nick made her a generous offer -- housekeeping services for a temporary home. Within day...
I, Maggie Romer, am about to teach my new boss a lesson he won't soon forget. The minute he took over my company and fired my friend Sam, John Richard Worthington became my enemy. But this man has many sides. Turns out the sexy man I've been datin...
THE PROPER WAY TO FIND A WIFE... Making a billion dollars was something Max Sheridan could do with one hand tied behind his back. But learning which fork to use? When to open a door? Those were skills he needed in order to win a high-society wife....