Just Around The Corner

Caroline Prater: A lost twin. A widow. A pregnant woman.

When she discovers she has a twin living in an Arizona town called Shelter Valley, Caroline Prater decides to go there. Pregnant and a widow, she leaves her Kentucky hometown and drives west. She'll try to connect with her twin sister, Phyllis Sheffield. And she'll seek out John Strickland, the father of her baby--if only to let him know.

John is a well-known architect, a still-grieving widower who's settled in Shelter Valley. He and Caroline met six weeks earlier when he traveled to Kentucky....

Caroline's waiting for the right moment to approach Phyllis, unsure whether her unsuspecting twin will welcome her presence. And she develops a deeper relationship with John--but that's just for the baby's sake. Or is it?

A cop's creed: If your partner dies, take care of his family.

John McLean is a single father and a cop-and he takes all his duties seriously. A year ago, after her husband died, he added Natalie Reed to his list of responsibilities. At first, that just meant helping around the house. Then a body is found in her den....

Once he learns the victim's identity-and his connection with Natalie's husband-John realizes the safest place for Natalie is with him. He knows it's the honorable thing to do. But even when you're right, it isn't easy to feel good when you're falling in love with your partner's wife.

"Will you be the father of my baby?"

Jake Roberts was everything Caitlin O'Hara wanted in her baby's father-he was fun, witty and gorgeous. They'd shared every intimate detail of their lives since kindergarten. Why not a baby?

Because friends didn't cross that line. No. Caitlin had to find an anonymous donor.

MAKING PLANS, MAKING FRIENDS…MAKING A BABY?

Elaine Lowry is a divorcée with a plan: to have a baby on her own. Why shouldn't she have the child she always dreamed of-the child her ex-husband is now having with his new wife! As if it's not enough that he's taken the house and, with it, her social standing.

Enter sinfully handsome lawyer-for-the-opposing side Mitch Ryder. Feeling guilty about the part he played in Elaine's divorce, he takes over as landlord on her apartment before it's sold right from under her. Mitch offers himself as a daddy candidate on one condition: their marriage needs to be all business. But Mitch can't help the tender protective feelings he has for Elaine, especially when they make love for the first time. And besides, who says business comes before pleasure?

More than anything, Officer Nell Granstrom wants to stop history from repeating itself. Born to a sixteen-year-old mother, Nell had her daughter, Kim, at the same age. Now Kim's sixteen and has a serious boyfriend.

But how much weight can Nell's words have? Years of living a careful life are over, because she's made another mistake. After witnessing a terrible crime, Nell turns to her new partner for comfort-which leads to a second unplanned pregnancy.

Despite his reputation, Hugh McLean will no doubt offer to do the right thing. But would marriage to a man she hardly knows (and isn't sure she likes) work? For Kim's sake, for the baby's sake, is Nell brave enough to try?

Following years of heartbreaking miscarriages, Frankie McBride has left an unhappy marriage and returned home to Texas, where an unexpected attraction to Texas Ranger Luke Driscoll turns into an unexpected pregnancy.

Luke’ s wife and child died six years ago, and while he has a reputation as a tough cop, he’ s wary of heartbreak. Frankie keeps her secret from Luke because she’ s certain she’ ll lose this baby, too-and can’ t stand the thought of putting him through that pain again.

Laurel Woodall dreams of having a baby. But she can't let herself fall in love and will never again let a man in her life....

Caleb Manes thinks Laurel is his future. When he hears she wants to have a baby on her own, he volunteers to be the father. Making a baby in this unconventional manner isn't the best way to further a relationship with Laurel, but it might lead to something more. Now he just has to convince her that this is what best friends are for....

A 7 lb. 8 oz. Christmas Package!

When totally eligible E.R. doctor Michael Sloane found out he was going to be a father at the eleventh hour--make that the ninth month--he set out to tell single mom-to-be Kate Montgomery she was going to have his baby. Which was a good thing because Kate went into labor. They alone, strangers, delivered their healthy infant son on a North Carolina roadside. Now, with a baby between them, Kate and Michael could never go their separate ways again. If Michael had his say, they'd be sharing the baby's first Christmas as man and wife.