Susan Mallery
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The Rancher Next Door
But to young Katie Fitzgerald, the sun rose and set on rugged Jack Darby. Jack was her childhood hero, her secret teen beau. B
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ut he hadn't loved her enough to leave their feuding families behind, and blinding heartbreak had led her into another man's arms -- and 11 years of loneliness.
When Katie returned to the ranch next door, emotions tore through Jack like a Texas twister. Anguish over her youthful betrayal, tenderness for her shy son -- and a hunger so deep it hollowed him out. But hadn't 11 lonely years taught him he was a fool to love a Fitzgerald?
Unexpectedly Expecting!
Abandoned by her dad and betrayed by her fiancé, she was anti-man, anti-marriage and mouthy about it to boot. All of which suited Stephen Remington, M.D., to a tee. Though the townsfolk considered him the ideal candidate to scale Nora's defenses and soften her heart, the sexy widower had vowed never to love -- and lose -- again.
But their public battle of the sexes led to a night of shocking, private passion...and an unexpected pregnancy...leaving no-strings Nora and love-shy Stephen staring straight down the shotgun of motherhood and -- shudder! -- matrimony...
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