Looking Good — Marilyn Herr

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER DROP-DEAD GORGEOUS BACHELOR...

It's not every day that a handsome hunk turns up on your doorstep -- unless you're Pepper McFadden, and your mother is a meddling matchmaker. Single, self-employed, surrounded by rambunctious kids and barking dogs, Pepper is hardly in the mood for romance. But it's not long before the latest candidate has bonded with her boys over bugs and ballgames -- and made Pepper acutely aware of just how long it's been since she was in a man's arms....

When landscaper Steve Lawson agreed to plant a few shrubs for Lila Hunter's "poor, lonely, widowed daughter," he wasn't exactly expecting a shapely, sexy redhead! Now he'd been welcomed into a whirlwind household desperately in need of a handyman -- and a resident dad. A ready-made family is the last thing Steve wants -- but will it turn out to be the one thing he really needs?