If You Don't Know By Now. Teresa Southwick

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      Courteous, courageous and commanding—these heroes lay it all on the line for the people they love in more than fifty stories about loyalty, bravery and romance. Don’t miss a single one!

      AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 2010

      A Vow to Love by Sherryl Woods

      Serious Risks by Rachel Lee

      Who Do You Love? by Maggie Shayne and Marilyn Pappano

      Dear Maggie by Brenda Novak

      A Randall Returns by Judy Christenberry

      Informed Risk by Robyn Carr

      Five-Alarm Affair by Marie Ferrarella

      AVAILABLE MARCH 2010

      The Man from Texas by Rebecca York

      Mistaken Identity by Merline Lovelace

      Bad Moon Rising by Kathleen Eagle

      Moriah’s Mutiny by Elizabeth Bevarly

      Have Gown, Need Groom by Rita Herron

      Heart of the Tiger by Lindsay McKenna

      AVAILABLE APRIL 2010

      Landry’s Law by Kelsey Roberts

      Love at First Sight by B.J. Daniels

      The Sheriff of Shelter Valley by Tara Taylor Quinn

      A Match for Celia by Gina Wilkins

      That’s Our Baby! by Pamela Browning

      Baby, Our Baby! by Patricia Thayer

      AVAILABLE MAY 2010

      Special Assignment: Baby by Debra Webb

      My Baby, My Love by Dani Sinclair

      The Sheriff’s Proposal by Karen Rose Smith

      The Marriage Conspiracy by Christine Rimmer

      The Woman for Dusty Conrad by Tori Carrington

      The White Night by Stella Bagwell

      Code Name: Prince by Valerie Parv

      AVAILABLE JUNE 2010

      Same Place, Same Time by C.J. Carmichael

      One Last Chance by Justine Davis

      By Leaps and Bounds by Jacqueline Diamond

      Too Many Brothers by Roz Denny Fox

      Secretly Married by Allison Leigh

      Strangers When We Meet by Rebecca Winters

      AVAILABLE JULY 2010

      Babe in the Woods by Caroline Burnes

      Serving Up Trouble by Jill Shalvis

      Deputy Daddy by Carla Cassidy

      The Major and the Librarian by Nikki Benjamin

      A Family Man by Mindy Neff

      The President’s Daughter by Annette Broadrick

      Return to Tomorrow by Marisa Carroll

      AVAILABLE AUGUST 2010

      Remember My Touch by Gayle Wilson

      Return of the Lawman by Lisa Childs

      If You Don’t Know by Now by Teresa Southwick

      Surprise Inheritance by Charlotte Douglas

      Snowbound Bride by Cathy Gillen Thacker

      The Good Daughter by Jean Brashear

      AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 2010

      The Hero’s Son by Amanda Stevens

      Secret Witness by Jessica Andersen

      On Pins and Needles by Victoria Pade

      Daddy in Dress Blues by Cathie Linz

      AKA: Marriage by Jule McBride

      Pregnant and Protected by Lilian Darcy

      If You Don’t Know By Now

      Teresa Southwick

       www.millsandboon.co.uk

      TERESA SOUTHWICK

      lives with her husband in Las Vegas, the city that reinvents itself every day. An avid fan of romance novels, she is delighted to be living out her dream of writing for Silhouette Books.

      Contents

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

      Chapter 12

      Chapter 1

      Maggie Benson’s jaw dropped.

      She stared at the man standing five feet away and wanted to pinch herself—or him. Was she dreaming or hallucinating? Any second she expected to hear a rousing rendition of the Twilight Zone theme. The guy standing just outside her rodeo booth was the spitting image of Jack Riley. But that couldn’t be. They said everyone had a double, this must be his. Jack was a love-’em-and-leave-’em rogue she’d never expected to see again.

      “Hello.”

      Now she was hearing things. One word, and she knew his deep, gravel-roughened voice.

      “Jack?”

      “Yeah, Maggie.”

      It was him. God help her—Jack Riley had returned. And she didn’t know whether to hug him or hit him.

      Trembling started in her hands and spread to her legs, turning them the consistency of crème brûlée, the soft part just below the crunchy, crystallized top. As if that wasn’t bad enough, her heart pounded almost pain fully. Then her palms began to sweat, making a friendly handshake out of the question. But then, considering what they’d done ten years ago, shaking hands with sweaty palms was small potatoes.

      The man standing close enough to reach out and touch had been her first time, something a girl never, ever, forgot. But she couldn’t say the same for him. He’d walked away and never looked back.

      And, damn him, he was still so bad-boy handsome he trapped the breath in her lungs until her chest was near to bursting. Eyes as deep and blue as a field of Texas blue bon nets and fringed by in credibly thick, sooty lashes looked her up and down. He had the same black hair cut conservatively short—military short, she noted with a catch in her heart.

      She hadn’t seen him since he’d left Destiny hardly more than a boy. It was ten years later and he was back—bigger, broader, built.

      Jack Riley was a man.

      “It’s good to see you, Maggie,” he said as she continued to stare.

      How could he just disappear for ten years, then show up without warning at the North Texas High School Rodeo Championships? What was she supposed to say?

      “Cat got your tongue?” he asked as if he could read her thoughts.