Much Ado About Matchmaking. Myrna Mackenzie

      “I can’t believe how you’ve replicated the original. This is…”

      “How did you do this?” Emma asked, gazing up at him.

      Ryan’s blue eyes hypnotized her as he stepped closer. “I didn’t do much,” he said, his voice deep and husky. “The book’s beauty was there to see. All I had to do was look.”

      She barely managed to swallow. Her skin ached where he had touched her, the kind of ache she’d never thought to feel, the kind she was sure other women made up when they’d talked of such things.

      “I think I understand what Uncle Gilbert wanted me to see. So I guess…we can go home now.”

      Ryan nodded curtly. “If that’s what you want.”

      “It is.” She just didn’t trust herself to stay here with him any longer. If she did, if he showed her any more or touched her again, who knew what would happen?

      Dear Reader,

      Four special women shatter the barricades they’ve built around their dreams, in Silhouette Romance this month. Be it openly defying the life role set out for them or realizing their life’s ambition, these independent ladies represent the type of aspirational heroines we’re looking for in Silhouette Romance.

      Myrna Mackenzie launches our newest trilogy, SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, with Much Ado About Matchmaking (SR #1786) in which a woman who doesn’t think she’s special or beautiful enough for the worldly hero finally gets the courage to listen to her heart. The Texan’s Suite Romance (SR #1787) rounds out Judy Christenberry’s LONE STAR BRIDES continuity and features a woman who knows Mr. Right when she meets him but now must help him heal enough to let love back into his lonely life. When her screenplay is made into a movie set on her family’s ranch, one woman thinks she’s fulfilled all her dreams…until she meets one very handsome stuntman. Watch this drama unfold in Lights, Action…Family! (SR #1788)—the concluding romance in Patricia Thayer’s LOVE AT THE GOODTIME CAFÉ miniseries. Finally, Crystal Green wraps up the BLOSSOM COUNTY FAIR series with Her Gypsy Prince (SR #1789) in which a sheltered woman bucks her family’s wishes to pursue a forbidden love.

      And be sure to come back next month when Elizabeth Harbison puts a modern spin on Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew.

      Happy reading,

      Ann Leslie Tuttle

      Associate Senior Editor

      Much Ado About Matchmaking

      Myrna Mackenzie

      

www.millsandboon.co.uk

      Books by Myrna Mackenzie

      Silhouette Romance

      The Baby Wish #1046

      The Daddy List #1090

      Babies and a Blue-Eyed Man #1182

      The Secret Groom #1225

      The Scandalous Return of Jake Walker#1256

      Prince Charming’s Return #1361

      *Simon Says…Marry Me! #1429

      *At the Billionaire’s Bidding #1442

      *Contractually His #1454

      The Billionaire Is Back #1520

      Blind-Date Bride #1526

      A Very Special Delivery #1540

      *Bought by the Billionaire #1610

      *The Billionaire’s Bargain #1622

      *The Billionaire Borrows a Bride #1634

      †The Pied Piper’s Bride #1714

      †Midas’s Bride #1719

      †The Black Knight’s Bride #1722

      Their Little Cowgirl #1738

      Instant Marriage, Just Add Groom #1755

      Much Ado About Matchmaking #1786

      Silhouette Books

      Montana Mavericks

      Just Pretending

      Lone Star Country Club

      Her Sweet Talkin’ Man

      Family Secrets

      Blind Attraction

      Baby and All

      “Lights, Camera…Baby!”

      Morning Beauty,

      Midnight Beast

      MYRNA MACKENZIE

      is the winner of the Holt Medallion honoring outstanding fiction and a finalist for numerous other awards, including the Orange Rose, the National Readers’ Choice Award, the Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice and Wish RWA’s Write Touch. She believes that humor, love and hope are three of the best medicines in the world and tries to make sure that her books reflect that belief. Born in a small town in southern Missouri, Myrna grew up in the Chicago area, married her high school sweetheart and has two teenage sons. Her hobbies include dreaming of warmer climes during the cold northern winters, pretending the dust in her house doesn’t exist, taking long walks and traveling. Readers can write to Myrna at P.O. Box 225, LaGrange, IL 60525, or they may visit her online at www.myrnamackenzie.com.

      Shakespeare’s Recipe for Romance

      In Much Ado About Nothing

      Take 2 conquering warriors returning to peacetime activities.

      Throw in 2 lovely young cousins.

      Add in 1 matchmaking uncle.

      Mix generously and see how things are turning out.

      Add 1 devious troublemaker, determined to spoil everything.

      Correct this problem by bringing in more people to help throw the young lovers together.

      Add a few white lies and a dash of secrecy and whispering.

      Drop in another pinch of pure mischief by the matchmakers, a dollop of dastardly plotting by the nefarious villain and a generous smidgen of stubbornness on the part of the young lovers.

      Allow to simmer. Then read on and savor as true love sets out to conquer all!

      Contents

       Prologue

       Chapter One

       Chapter Two

       Chapter Three

       Chapter Four

       Chapter Five

       Chapter