Bachelor Father

The Lost Springs Ranch for troubled boys is at stake, and it's a man's duty to give back…

Bachelor #2
Name: Mase LeBow, 34
Occupation: Homicide detective, Denver
Biggest Achievement: Living to adulthood after a too-wild adolescence

Widower Mase LeBow figures Callie Thorne's remote equine therapy ranch is the best place to protect his son. So he's determined to charm her after she "buys" him for a date at the Lost Springs Bachelor Auction. But her insistence on helping his withdrawn boy gets past his defenses…and that can't happen. Falling in love with Callie when he's the star witness in a murder trial would be a huge mistake.

Blair Townsend didn't know the meaning of chaos until her holy terror of a nephew came to live with her. Jeffrey needed a positive role model-and Blair wasn't above buying one at the Lost Springs auction. Sexy-as-sin rancher Scott McKay looks as if he'd have no trouble teaching Jeffrey how to be a man. Except Scott seems far more interested in showing Blair how to be a woman….

The Lost Springs Ranch for troubled boys is at stake, and it's a man's duty to give back…
…So there's going to be an auction!

Bachelor #4
Name: Amos Pike, 34
Occupation: CEO of Pike's Pickled Peppers Toy Company
Biggest Achievement: Smiles on children's faces

Luke Lydell, former state cop, current cowboy and part-time private investigator, was supposed to be Claire Buchanan's joke bachelorette gift from her four sisters, her bridesmaids-a last hurrah before her Christmas wedding to wealthy rancher Clive Stoddard. But Luke wasn't laughing. Growing up an orphan dumped on the steps of Lost Springs Ranch for troubled boys, he'd always wanted Claire, a rich rancher's daughter, for his own. So this time, he's playing for keeps….

The Lost Springs Ranch for troubled boys is at stake, and it's a man's duty to give back…

Bachelor #1
Name: Rob Carter, 36
Occupation: Pathologist, Denver
Biggest Achievement: Putting himself through med school on a basketball scholarship

It's so humiliating! Beautician Twyla McCabe's well-meaning customers won her a bachelor at the Lost Springs Auction to raise money to save the beloved ranch for troubled boys. She'd find a way to wriggle out of the charitable date, except… It might fool everyone at her dreaded high-school reunion if she arrived with Dr. Rob Carter. Her gorgeous fiancé.

The Lost Springs Ranch for troubled boys is at stake, and it's a man's duty to give back…

After eight years of always doing the right thing, wealthy widow Jessica Fremont is ready to rebel against her mother-in-law's upper-crust interference into how she's raising her son. Nine-year-old Sam desperately wants to be a cowboy-to his grandmother's horror-and Jessica's going to help him. So she bids on gorgeous rancher Matthew Winston, who inherited his struggling spread, a home for retired circus animals. Jessica is hoping he'll show Sam the ropes. Except, she's about to discover that Sam's not the only Fremont with a weakness for cowboys….

The Lost Springs Ranch for troubled boys is at stake, and it's a man's duty to give back…

Dinah Hoyt was chosen by the good citizens of Bushwack, Colorado, to "buy'' former Bushwack resident Shane Daniels at auction…and then talk him into using his celebrity as a bull rider to save the Old Pioneer Days festival. Everyone knew that she and Shane had once been close. But no one knew exactly how close, or what had come of that teenage love affair…not even Shane. And if Dinah had anything to say about it, he wasn't going to find out!

The Lost Springs Ranch for troubled boys is at stake, and it's a man's duty to give back…

So there's going to be an auction!

Bachelor #9
Name: Chance Cartwright
Occupation: Rancher
Biggest Achievement: Being the best horse trainer in Wyoming.

Men of Chance Cartwright's caliber were hard to find, and Madison Burnes needed, wanted, was determined to have him as the spokesman for her ad campaign. Even if it meant seducing him. She'd stop at nothing…but then…she hadn't bargained on morning sickness or falling in love with her prey!

Logan Carswell has just kissed his professional baseball career goodbye. Goodbye dreams, career and future. For now, though, he's working at the Last Chance Ranch and the town saloon, where sexy bartender Caro Davis is definitely taking his mind off his troubles…