THE PLIGHT OF A SINGLE DAD…No sooner had they settled in Washington than history repeated itself: the welcoming committee of available women. The casseroles. A widower Alex McKenzie I might be, but he was not looking for a new wife.' His four-year-old son, however, had picked a new mommy…just in time for the holidays.Next-door neighbor Shannon O'Rourke was striking, successful and single. Not once, though, had she come bearing casseroles. (Her twoalarm-fire attempt at baking Christmas cookies with his boy fquite possibly the reason.) Homemaker material or not, Shannon had resurrected Hiis withdrawn son…when even he had failed.For that, he was tempted to kiss her. I Where was mistletoe when you needed it?
Police spokeswoman Megan Esterbrook has a problem– she's a sucker for sexy reporter Barry Sutton. Whatever he wants, she gives him, regardless of the cost.But that's about to stop–now! And to keep strong, she's come up with a surefire «Barry aversion therapy»–index cards to remind her why she should stay away. Now all she has to do is remember to use them….
THE MATCHMAKER'S WAGERLady Henrietta Thorndike hides her lonely heart behind playing cupid–some might accuse her of interfering, but she prefers to think of it as improving other people's lives! But Robert Montemorcy knows it has to stop–his ward has just fled from a compromising situation in London, and the last thing she needs is to be embroiled in Henri's compulsive matchmaking! He bets Henri that she won't be able to resist meddling…only to lose his own heart into the bargain!
Bored with his million-dollar lifestyle, Richard Darcy Kristof accepts a dare: live for one month with strangers and without his name or his fortune. He's up for the challenge. Calling himself Darcy, he gets a job managing a horse farm. But nothing has prepared him for the challenge of the boss's gorgeous daughter–Silver Braybourne.Silver's future is riding on one horse and its ability to win. She's not about to let anything stand in her way, least of all a new manager who's too arrogant, too sexy for his own good…and hers. If she gives in to the temptation of Darcy, she can again focus on her future. Too bad once isn't enough.…
David James was looking forward to going back to his old hospital as a consultant surgeon, until the reaction of cardiologist Lisa Kennedy made him wonder if he could live down his old playboy image.He'd never had any trouble charming women before, but Lisa seemed to be immune, and the more he tried to impress her, as a colleague and potential lover, the more she seemed to back away. How could he convince her that he would happily give up his bachelor ways for her?
Trisha August is determined to be independent and will do anything–well, almost anything–for enough money to set up her own business. She can't believe her luck when hotshot Lassiter Dragan promises to give her a loan….But there's a catch–she has to become his temporary «wife» for the Christmas holidays!Lassiter has sworn that he'll never make himself vulnerable through love. So a convenient, temporary wife seems the perfect solution to enhance his business image. Only, living as man and wife is harder than either of them expects. Lassiter is appalled to discover he's falling in love with his wife!
A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSEDr. Alexandra Lawson wasn't the type to swoon over a handsome man. But then she had never met anyone like Chase Harrington. The sought-after CEO had an unnervig way of making her feel more female than physician, and the normally staid surgeon found herself fantasizing of wedding bells and family albums when she accepted Chase's gallant offer to share his residence. Suddenly Alex had a lover to come home to, and a friend. But Chase had a secret agenda in Honeygrove, one she feared might never include making the doctor in his house a wife…
Mills & Boon are excited to present The Anne Mather Collection – the complete works by this classic author made available to download for the very first time! These books span six decades of a phenomenal writing career, and every story is available to read unedited and untouched from their original release. Making the break…Olivia owes her step-brother Richard everything – but now she is an adult, and determined to make her own way in the world. And yet Richard seems just as determined not to let her go… He has been very generous, but that doesn’t give him the right to dictate how she should live now!Olivia knows that the only way to solve her problem is to leave Richard altogether – but why is she finding it so difficult to break away? Her feelings for Richard are clearly more complicated than she’d first thought…
THE SECRET FATHER…Though his merest glance still filled her with desire, Cate was no longer a naive teenager blinded by love–this time she had to resist her intense attraction to Daniel Finn. Because now this successful businessman had the power to tear apart the town that once scorned him–and the girl he'd married, then left behind.For Danny didn't just abandon Cate seventeen years ago–he'd also unknowingly left his unborn child! So no matter how right Danny felt in her arms and her heart, revealing the truth about her son's paternity could ruin everything…
Lauren Jeffries needed a scoop, something that would get her her first serious newspaper story and away from writing obits. When she sort-of faked Harry Nord's obit, she never dreamed it'd get published, let alone that a hot guy would show up asking a lot of uncomfortable questions and making her feel…well, hot.On the hunt for snatched objets d'art, stolen-art investigator Sebastian Alberti has logged a ton of frequent flyer miles circling the globe. When a death notice in the Philadelphia Sentinel about his chief suspect catches his eye, his legs take him right to Lauren's door–and then into her bedroom….