Sometimes a Lady — Linda Randall Wisdom

SHE COULDN'T BELIEVE HER EYES

He dressed like a biker, talked like a thug and looked like a ruffian. And he was the man assigned to protect her!

When Elise opened the door of her secluded California home to Detective Dean Cornell, she thought maybe she was safer without police protection.

Dean thought that moving in with the lady vet was a choice assignment--heck, there were worse jobs than bodyguarding a sexy woman. But life in the Carpenter household was anything but normal. With three squabbling girls, two snoring tortoises and a loudmouthed macaw on his tail, Dean feared even he wasn't safe here.

Then, after long nights in close quarters, they found the biggest threat wasn't from the killer on the loose at all.