Father of the Brood

"The Female Sex Is Not Capable of Deep Emotion!"

Enrico Meliora's emotions were carved in stone and just as hard. He was cynical about love, scornful of romance and burning with bitterness. He was like a fallen angel, and no woman had ever been able to move him!

So why wasn't Tania able to leave him? When he tortured her emotions, why did she always end up begging for more? What was it about Enrico that made her a prisoner of his passions?

THE MASTER (FOR A MONTH): Boone Cagney. When irresistible Lucy Dolan cried pitifully about her trapped three-year old, how was the hunky fire fighter to know she was talking about her…cat? Now he's spending his days-and his nights-with both of them….

THE SLAVE (FOR A MONTH): Lucy Dolan. When Boone rescued Mack from the jaws of death, Lucy decided it was payback time.

THE DEBT: Lucy has to service Boone for thirty days only-if he can bear to let her go at the end of them. After all, good help is so hard to find….

MAN OF THE MONTH:

Catherine had expected to be Mrs. Clay Landon forever. But her workaholic husband was so caught up in securing their future that he'd neglected the present-and his wife. Would Catherine be forced to abandon her dreams of raising a family?

Clay had never known how empty a bed could be until Catherine left theirs. He wanted her back-so he'd convinced her to spend a month alone with him at his isolated cabin. Clay intended to prove he was made to love Catherine-and she was made to have children.

Miranda Colby's plan for peace and quiet in a remote mountain cabin backfired the moment she stumbled upon her sexy new neighbor-in the buff! Although the thought of spending time with Luke had the innocent Miranda reeling, she was starting to yearn for his touch….

A BLIZZARD, A BABY…AND A BRIDE?

Being snowbound with a beautiful stranger was a bachelor's dream. Being snowbound with a beautiful stranger in labor was this bachelor's worst nightmare! Yet Cooper Dugan managed to deliver Katie Brennan's son.

Settling down was the last thing on Katie's mind-mother and child were on the run. But she needed a favor. All Cooper had to do was pose as a proud papa and happy hubby. All Katie had to do was remember that it was just a charade….

FROM HERE TO PATERNITY: These three men weren't expecting to become parents-and fatherhood isn't the only thing the stork delivered!

Even tight-lipped loner Hugh Slater couldn't let a good woman marry a ranch-hungry stranger she'd met through an ad in the local paper! So he'd come back to Granite Ridge, Texas, the town he swore he'd never step foot in again. He'd talk some sense into Kasey Donovan, then be gone by morning.

But shooing away would-be husbands-and himself-was harder than Hugh thought. Kasey had grown into one beautiful, lush woman….

Libby Cassidy knew from experience that Matt Flint wasn't husband material…and marriage was definitely on Libby's mind. Oh, his long, hard body and hot kisses were enough to make her swoon, but if Matt wasn't ready to settle down, then Libby wasn't about to stir him up!

THE WIFE HE INTENDED TO HAVE

BABY WRANGLIN'

John Lee Carter was still the most irresistible cowboy this side of Texas, but these days the rugged rancher was packing more than a sexy grin. Seemed John Lee was now daddy to a sweet baby girlѿand looking at Merideth McCloud as though he'd like to make some more….

Well, Merideth didn't have a problem with making babies. Nor did she mind caring for John Lee's little darlin'. But it was high time the stubborn bachelor learned that all those early-morning feedings-and late-night seductions-could lead to only one thing…marriage!

Could she really ask this man to marry her? Sarah Ann Dempsey approached him. Determined jaw…wide shoulders…pure masculinity. Suddenly a glistening drop of moisture trickled from the handsome man's navel and disappeared beneath the low-slung waistband of well-worn jeans. And from the length of his outstretched legs, she knew that Gabe would make the perfect groom….

I DO?