Best Laid Plans. Brenda Jackson

      

      Love wasn’t supposed to be a part of the deal…

      Even a famed matchmaker like Nolan Madaris’s great-grandmother can’t get it right every time. Nolan, the notorious fun-loving ladies’ man, could never connect with someone as straitlaced as tech whiz Ivy Chapman. Yet the scheme Ivy proposes is tempting—they can pretend to be a couple, just long enough to satisfy their families.

      But someone forgot to clue in their hearts

      What happens, though, when Ivy’s plan to get her relatives off her back has an unexpected side effect: getting her into Nolan’s bed? Houston’s number one womanizer may have found the only one who can truly satisfy him, body and soul. But with a man from Ivy’s past determined to be part of her future, both she and Nolan will have to decide what’s fake, what’s real and what’s worth fighting for...

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      FORGED IN DESIRE

      SEIZED BY SEDUCTION

      LOCKED IN TEMPTATION

      The Grangers

      A BROTHER’S HONOR

      A MAN’S PROMISE

      A LOVER’S VOW

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      Best Laid Plans

      Brenda Jackson

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      ISBN: 978-1-474-08235-8

      BEST LAID PLANS

      © 2018 Brenda Streater Jackson

      Published in Great Britain 2018

      by Mills & Boon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF

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      To the man who will always and forever

      be the love of my life and the wind beneath

      my wings, Gerald Jackson, Sr.

      Special thanks to LaSonde Jones, Dana Ross, Aquanetta Powell and Samantha Miguez for naming the newborn Madaris twins—Landon and London.

      Special thanks to Joyce Snipes for naming

      Ivy Chapman’s perfume, Forever You.

      To all my readers who waited patiently

      for a new Madaris novel, this book is for you.

      In memory of my fur baby Yorkie,

      who passed away during the writing of this book. Mookie, you are deeply missed.

      I have found the one whom my soul loves.

      —Song of Solomon 3:4

      Praise for

      New York Times bestselling author

      Brenda Jackson

      “The only flaw of this first-rate, satisfyingly sexy tale is that it ends.”

      —Publishers Weekly, starred review,

      on Forged in Desire

      “[Jackson’s] signature is to create full-sensory romances that deliver on the heat, and she duly delivers…. [S]ure to make any reader swoon.”

      —RT Book Reviews on Forged in Desire

      “Leave it to Jackson to take sizzle and honor, wrap it in romance and come up with a first-rate tale.”

      —RT Book Reviews on Temptation

      “Brenda Jackson is the queen of newly discovered love… If there’s one thing Jackson knows how to do, it’s how to pluck those heartstrings and stir up some seriously saucy drama.”

      —BookPage on Inseparable

      “This deliciously sensual romance ramps up the emotional stakes and the action…. [S]exy and sizzling.”

      —Library Journal on Intimate Seduction

      “Jackson does not disappoint…first-class page-turner.”

      —RT Book Reviews on A Silken Thread, 4½ stars,

      Top Pick!

      “Jackson is a master at writing.”

      —Publishers Weekly on Sensual Confessions

      Contents

       Cover

       Back Cover Text

Booklist

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Praise