My Favorite Husband. Sally Carleen

      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Excerpt

       Dear Reader

       Title Page

       Dedication

       About the Author

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

       Chapter Four

       Chapter Five

       Chapter Six

       Chapter Seven

       Chapter Eight

       Chapter Nine

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve

       Copyright

       “We just got married and already we have a son?”

      Travis asked Katie with a nervous laugh. “Did I know about this?”

      

      Katie swallowed hard before nodding. She’d become so engrossed in making Travis understand about her nephew’s custody hearing that telling a lie—even in a just cause and after she’d told so many tonight—suddenly didn’t feel right.

      

      “Katie…” He sounded oddly tentative. “Did we get married just for this hearing?” “I’d never marry for that reason,” she said. “I’m glad to hear that.” Travis lifted his hand to her cheek, then let his fingers trail down her neck. She didn’t flinch, enjoying the sensation and wanting more.

      

      How was that possible? How could she enjoy the touch of a man who worked for her parents, a man who would ruin everything when he regained his memory?

      Dear Reader,

      

      What makes a man a Fabulous Father? For me, he’s the man who married my single mother when she had three little kids (who all needed braces) and raised us as his own. And, to celebrate an upcoming anniversary of the Romance line’s FABULOUS FATHERS series, I’d like to know your thoughts on what makes a man a Fabulous Father. Send me a brief (50 words) note with your name, city and state, giving me permission to publish all or portions of your note, and you just might see it printed on a special page. Blessed with a baby—and a second chance at marriage—this month’s FABULOUS FATHER also has to become a fabulous husband to his estranged wife in Introducing Daddy by Alaina Hawthorne.

      “Will you marry me, in name only?” That’s a woman’s desperate question to the last of THE BEST MEN, Karen Rose Smith’s miniseries, in A Groom and a Promise. He drops her like a hot potato, then comes back with babies and wants her to be his nanny! Or so he says…in Babies and a Blue—Eyed Man by Myrna Mackenzie. When a man has no memory and a woman needs an instant husband, she tells him a little white lie and presto! in My Favorite Husband by Sally Carleen. She’s a waitress who needs etiquette lessons in becoming a lady; he’s a millionaire who likes her just the way she is in Wife in Training by Susan Meier. Finally, Robin Wells is one of Silhouette’s WOMEN TO WATCH—a new author debuting in the Romance line with The Wedding Kiss.

      I hope you enjoy all our books this month—and every month! Regards,

      

      Melissa Senate,

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      My Favorite Husband

      Sally Carleen

       www.millsandboon.co.uk

      To Teri Frailey and to John Dunn, whoever he may be

       SALLY CARLEEN

      For as long as she can remember, Sally planned to be a writer when she grew up. Finally, one day, after more years than she cares to admit, she realized she was as grown up as she was likely to become, and began to write romance novels. In the years prior to her epiphany, Sally supported her writing habit by working as a legal secretary, a real estate agent, a legal assistant, a leasing agent, an executive secretary and in various other occupations.

      

      She now writes full—time, and looks upon her previous careers as research and/or torture. A native of McAlester, Oklahoma, and naturalized citizen of Dallas, Texas, Sally now lives in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, with her husband, Max, their very large cat, Leo, and a very small dog, Cricket. Her interests, besides writing, are chocolate and Classic Coke.

      

      Readers can write to Sally at P.O. Box 6614, Lee’s Summit, MO 64086.

       Chapter One

      “Oh, no!” In the stillness of the Dallas summer night, Katie Logan’s exclamation carried quite clearly through the open window to where Travis Rider crouched in the overgrown shrubbery. “John, this is terrible. Isn’t there any way you can get the next two days off?”

      “I’m sorry, Katie, but you know how strict the hospital is about these schedules. I’d do it for you if I could.”

      “I know you would. I just don’t have a clue what to do now. The custody hearing starts tomorrow. I’ve already told the social worker we’re married. How am I ever going to find somebody to be my husband by then?”

      In spite of his cynical nature, Travis couldn’t sup press a brief flash of disappointment at those words. Katie Logan was bright,