Substitute Wife — Anne Marie Winston

A CONVENIENT MARRIAGE

To a widower raising two growing kids alone, it seemed the perfect arrangement. Tom Hayes had always admired his next-door neighbor, and he knew she was having a hard time herself. So why shouldn't they get married? It would be strictly business, after all.

Tannis Carlson thought maybe this marriage of convenience was the answer for a lonely divorcee struggling with a backbreaking mortgage. Friendship, affection, a readymade family--and none of the dangers of falling in love. But she hadn't been this man's substitute wife very long before she was dreaming of being the real thing ....