A Certain Slant of Light — Terese Ramin

UNMARRIED... WITH CHILDREN

Grace Witoczynski was a single mother living in the suburbs with four kids, a demanding job, meddling relatives--and absolutely no social life. Mal Quarrels was a man living a lie, a handsome, hard-bitten U.S. marshal working undercover--in the middle of her living room.

And somewhere between talking about the birds and bees with Grace's sons, sitting down to pot-roast dinners and kissing Grace long into the night, Mal remembered what it was like to have a family--and forgot the real reason he was there.

Until he was reminded in the worst possible way....

(Reissued 2019 as e-book "Guarding Grace.")