Angel Next Door — Mary Schramski

A TIME TO HEAL...When Mike Anjell arrives at Chimera Ranch to recover from partial amnesia, he only wants to reclaim his murky memory and get back to his life as a police offer. Bunking next door to busy horse-trainer Nikki Walsh and her troubled three-year-old niece, Ellie, he didn't count on creating new memories with the curvaceous, blue-eyed beauty, to whom he offers sorely-needed cooking lessons...and a lesson in letting herself be loved.

...AND FALL IN LOVE
With his rugged good looks and sweetly tender ways with Ellie, Mike makes Nikki's knees weak. But she's known too much pain to consider opening her heart. Still, something in his gentle eyes makes her long for the life she's always denied herself. Now, as he surrounds her and Ellie with love and safety, Mike has Nikki wondering if she's finally found the one man she can let herself trust.