
Single mom Meg Remington and her teenage daughter begin a conversation. Daughter says nervously: "Uh, Mom, maybe this would be a good time to tell you about Steve." Meg says absently: "Who?" Daughter says quickly: "Umm, S...
Confirmed bachelor mistakes: 1) Rather than act like a gentleman during your bizarre introduction to a woman, make a terrible first impression. 2 ) Told to apologize, pay her a visit, and instead, make confirmed bachelor mistake #3. 3 ) Tell...
BACHELOR AUCTION DATELESS IN CHICAGO... Noelle Perry had bought the wrong man! She'd attended the bachelor auction with her sights set on a conservative businessman in a three-piece suit. Instead, she got a sexy bad boy in a black leather jac...
Ruffan Reddy's rules for the ultimate blind date: Don't crash your rig into a woman's car unless you really want to meet her. Don't try to deal rationally with a woman driving a white car in a blinding snowstorm --- especially if she's also dr...
Decades since her last date, widowed mom Lilah McCord shakes the dust off her lingerie.... There's a man she wants--a long, lean gorgeous cowboy, the sexiest single father Green Tomato, Oklahoma, has ever seen--Clint Danner. Thing is, every gal in...
Divorcee Laura Westin hasn't had a date since Ben, her ex, proposed at the senior prom Option One: Spend Saturday nights wondering what Ben's doing Option Two: Spend Saturday nights "dating" an irresistible stranger on a compute...
For her thirty-seventh birthday, JeanAnn's friends place a personal ad for her.... THE THREE BLIND DATES: Bachelor #1: Nice enough -- except for that little problem. Bachelor #2: Talked nonstop about his ex-wife. Bachelor #3: Gorgeous and a...
Single dad Jake Longstreet cooks for two, sleeps alone and has nightmares about widked stepmothers What's Jake looking for in a wife? ("I'm not looking for a wife," he insists.) Forget a beautiful face, hourglass figure and throaty voice. Bring on...
The best kisser in Texas..... She was sweet, sexy -- and for sale. Well, her lips, anyway. Texas rancher Jon Sinclair spotted Anne selling kisses for a dollar at the Christmas Fair, so he took off his Stetson, tipped her chin and.... First Ki...
There's a mysterious stranger granting Christmas wishes in a small Missouri town.... So "scroogy" Sharon Fontaine asks for the one thing she knows he can't deliver -- the man of her dreams. As if knock-your-socks-off marriageable m...
Rule #1 of meeting Mr. Right: Be Yourself... Suddenly, secretary Britt Kingsley wasn't typing, filing and answering phones anymore. Thanks to dark sunglasses, a wig and a sexy dress, she was a brand-new woman -- and hobnobbing with the world...
Invited to her ex-fiance's wedding, Emma asks a handsome stranger to be her date.... Handsome stranger says: "Let's see if I have this straight. I attend the wedding with you. I kiss you several times to show the bride that I'm in love with you. Y...
Desperately seeking daddy.. . Erin Collins was a mother-to-be, but the daddy was nowhere to be found! "Brady, come home. Love, Erin." Erin had nothing to lose by placing the personal ad. And lo and behold, Brady Lockwood was found--months af...
Mr. & Mrs. ... for a week Come see the couple living in the display window at Derring Brothers Department Store �" one week only! As sidewalk shoppers stare, Jennifer Westgate's job is to be the blushing bride who: whips up meals on state-of-t...
AMANDA'S ROMANCE RESUME First Love: Ten years ago, Amanda fell madly in love with Dane, the most handsome man she'd ever seen. They kissed till dawn, whispered sweet nothings about forever. Then suddenly it was over.... Present Love: In the mid...
"The second my brother's four-carat diamond engagement ring was on your finger, you jilted him." - Jake Singleton, attorney. April Kennan had refused to even date Jake's sniveling brother -- let alone marry him! And now Jake insisted she return a rin...
The new groom's sleeping on the sofa tonight.... Jillian Horton's gorgeous new groom is everything a blushing bride could want on her wedding night. Thing is, she was so busy kissing all six feet three inches of him during their whirlwind courtshi...
“Sweetheart �" meet me at the Starlight Lounge at 10 �" Love, T.” When plain-Jane Sydney Stone mistakenly receives the seductive note at her hotel, she can't just let "T" (whoever he is) think his sweetheart stood him up. But show up at the ...
The marriage scheme... The Mom: runs a matchingmaking service and refuses to find herself a date! Her son wants her to find herself a husband, but Rosemary Gallagher wants to remain happily unmarried. The Kid: has the perfect plan and doesn't ...
"I want to stop a wedding!" When you run a bridal shop, you don't hear those words very often. So when Sergeant Maxwell O'Roarke, United States Marine Corps, marched into my place and ordered me to lose his little sister's wedd...
He's marriage material, but... First Date: It rains. You're wearing too-high heels and pantyhose that don't fit when your 48-hour Superbra reaches its 49th hour. Second Date: He gets pulled over for speeding. The cop who gives him...
The groom who almost got away? Completely got away is more like it. Max Slade just up and left Calley Hastings without a word. But now, three little Slades suddenly send for her.... What she learns: 1) Max left her to raise his orphaned brothe...
WHAT ED HOLLINGSWORTH KNOWS ABOUT THE LADY IN 308: 1. She's a very slow housepainter. (What's she really doing?) 2. She keeps a pair of binoculars on her windowsill. (Who's she spying on?) 3. She never, ever flirts. (Why?) 4. She has big, hunky m...
He needs a wife. No -- he needs a Saturday-night sexpot! Shame on you! -- he needs a mom for his daughter! What single dad Mac Williams really needs is for his nosy friends and family to butt out! But he does flip through his very dusty, ver...
From feisty waitress...to millionaire bride! Cheri Weatherwax had just been offered the deal of a lifetime. All she had to do was marry Mr. Jake Derring, brilliant scientist, for one year to receive one million dollars! But when she stepped up ...
THE BRIDE: Lorna Willow THE GROOM: Any nice, stable guy who will make a good father for her son THE PROBLEM: Clint McCord, daredevil stunt pilot...and heartbreaker In Brazen Gulch, eligible bachelors were a dime a dozen. How hard could it be...
TEACH ME TONIGHT For Jake Flynn, the Jordan sisters were a dream come true: sexy, sassy Charmaine for... well, you know, and sensible, practical schoolteacher Nadine to help mother his daughter. His return to the tiny town of Cherry Creek, Geor...
It was a single girl's worst nightmare. It was bad enough when Amy's old high school nemesis, Joe Malone, showed up at the newspaper and horned in on her job. Her boss seemed to think Amy's advice column needed a male point of view...b...
The Plan: Plain Jane Wendy Wilcox vows to get married before her thirtieth birthday. The Catch: She's only months away from her deadline, and there's not a single suitable guy in sight! The Solution: Beg hunky neighbor Travis Donovan...
WHAT MADDIE HATFIELD LEARNED FROM FINDING THE PERFECT MATE: Rule #1: Never date a co-worker -- just because Derek Newman is every woman's fantasy, that doesn't mean he's husband material. Rule #- After a string of dating disasters, av...
The good news: The man of your dreams is finally ready to tie the knot. The bad news: He's going to marry someone else. Brenda Burton has just one week to stop Fletch Layton from making the biggest mistake of his life. His witchy girlfriend...
MOST LIKELY TO...MARRY!? After fifteen years, was it too much for Kelly Sinclair to ask that her high school sweetheart at least be fat and bald and boring? Yup. The fact was, the grown-up Robert Brooks was even sexier than before. He was also ric...
Desperate mother seeks. . . Samara Diamond thought she'd seen it all--until she read that personal ad. Now she just had to find out what desperate mothers were seeking these days.... A nice girl...to play decoy in a matchmaking scheme. Well, th...
CHRISTMAS TO-DO LIST (WHEN YOU'RE TIRED OF SHOPPING) * Vacation in a wilderness cabin and discover a hunk living next door. * Indulge in a harmless affair, then return home and realize you can't live without him. * Pine away...I mean rea...
What woman could resist? An all-expense-paid vacation? Sharing a house with a sexy hunk? Prim-and-proper Penelope Grey should have said no. A woman like her didn't have affairs. And a bachelor like Craig Derring wasn't the marrying kind. What ma...
SHANNON POWELL IS LOOKING FOR LOVE--IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES Or at least that's what my chauffeur, Clint Dawson, says I'm doing. Personally, I don't think I'm looking for love at all--I merely said I wanted love letters to read in my old age. The f...
It began with a red helium balloon containing a note from a child desperate for a mommy -- and siblings. Now, Mary is head over heels for single dad Jonathan Taylor and his daughter, Annie. How does she confide her secret, especially one that might j...
Why did the groom cross the road? That was what Eden Whitney wondered when a tuxedo-clad hunk hopped into her car and drove off with her--instead of his intended. But what did Riley Smith intend to do with her? 1) Pass her off as his new blushi...
Traci Richardson finally finds that special someone -- and now she's really on the spot! Everyone tells me I should be happy now that Daniel has proposed. He has a good job, he's nice looking and he treats me well. Yep, he's darn near ...
“Maureen, I have a proposal for you....” A woman sure doesn't hear those words every day, especially from such a tall, dark and handsome hunk! But Matthew Vining was asking me to be his imaginary bride--so he could write about the perfect Euro...
A LONG-LOST PROPOSAL My dear, I love you, and being apart from you has made me realize how much I really need you. I hope you'll be able to promise that I'll be coming home to you. Say you'll be my wife.... All my love always Amy ...
How to Marry a Millionaire by Jeannie Renamo 1. Irk your boss, handsome magazine publisher Kyle Hunter, by creating controversial new column--"Marrying Well: A Practical Guide." 2. Accept Kyle's challenge to follow guidelines and land a rich h...
A funny thing happened on the way home from the wedding.... Pawnee Walker was desperately seeking a husband. And, as luck would have it handsome Ezra Jagger couldn't land h dream job without a wife. But the morning after she said "I do," Pawnee's ...
TWO REPORTERS, ONE STORY -- ONE BED! It's the wedding of the year -- a world-famous rock star marrying a gorgeous supermodel and every reporter in the country wants the story. The only way to get it is to land a job on the secluded desert ranc...
Will You Be My Bride? Woman after woman--from frumpy hausfraus to miniskirt-and-fishnet-stockinged vamps--is traipsing through Gina Delaney's mysterious--and sexy--neighbor's house. What is that tight-lipped scowling new man in town up to? she won...
Well, Dina Dorelli, who's it gonna be. . . ? Bachelor #1 The one your loving but meddlesome Italian family wants you to marry--you know, Tony what's-his-name--who's really a very nice guy; even if he doesn't exactly make your heart beat faster....
One week is plenty of time to learn how to look after a baby, right? Well, it had better be ... because that's how long confirmed bachelor West Gallagher will be stuck with the little bundle of 'joy' somebody left on his doorstep. Now he's also stuck...
FOR AS LONG AS IT TAKES... When the "Dear Jane" break-up note came over her friend's fax machine, Genna Wade couldn't believe her eyes. Well, she wasn't about to let Mr. Tall, Blond, Rich and Gorgeous off the hook so easily. She was just going to ...
THE CASE OF THE KIDNAPPED MOMMY Officer Guy Tripopulous knew that this was not his usual type of case. The ransom note was smeared, the letters printed, and the victim's children seemed awfully...informed. But Guy was willing to play along. He...
WELCOME TO "DATING FOR DESTINY"! Meet instructor Sarah Dann: I'm committed to helping my students find their perfect mate--even if I don't seem to have luck in that department! And that hunk slouching in the back row shouldn't have any trouble fi...
Q: What does a single woman do when all her friends are having babies? A: Get a dog! B: What does a single woman do when that clog comes attached to a sexy stranger and an adorable baby girl? A: Do you have to ask? Molly Michaels would have...
It's just a lamp. Really. There's nothing magical about it. I bought it at a garage sale because I thought it would make a nice prop. It's just that, ever since then, some really weird things have been happening.... But maybe I should make a wi...
Take one junk-food-loving single father named Jason Warfield, who's decided -- strictly for the sake of his kids -- that he'd better change his ways. Add one slightly uptight nutritionist, Laura Price, who's trying to teach that absolutely infuriatin...
Dinah Lane is desperate. She needs a husband and she needs one fast! There's no other way for the unwed mother to keep her baby and her job as the first female executive in such a straight-laced, small-town bank. Telling everyone she's engaged, Dinah...
Congratulations �" you're having a (millionaire) baby! Carlee Miller didn't care that her baby was bound to inherit millions, she only wanted a child to love. But after a mix-up at the sperm bank, she suddenly had lawyers demanding that the littl...
PREGNANT? Del Delaney choked on his coffee as he read the shower announcement on the kitchen table. What was his sister doing throwing a baby shower for Libby Sinclair? And who had gotten her pregnant? Then Del remembered one wonderful weekend ...
A small, faded photograph had turned Blair Stephens' world upside down. She'd suddenly learned she was adopted -- and that, somewhere, she had a twin sister who was her spitting image! With nowhere else to turn, she hired the services of hunky Devin ...
ALL SHE WANTS FOR CHRISTMAS... Is Santa Claus. But not just any old Santa Claus. Roxanne Mercer wants the most beloved Santa for miles around to advertise her Christmas store. Unfortunately, she isn't the only person in town who thinks only on...
ARE YOU GETTING NOWHERE WITH MR. RIGHT? The new self-help book HOW TO MARRY YOUR DREAMBOAT can fix that. It teaches you -- yes, you! -- how to win the man of your dreams. How? By turning yourself into the woman of his dreams... It certainly w...
A Royal Wedding? Reporter Leigh Donovan couldn't believe her luck! The Handsome prince she'd been searching for had just run her car off the road, and now he was proposing the deal of a lifetime: one juicy interview in exchange for her hand i...
Love, Marriage...and Baklava They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, but Demi Tripopulous isn't so sure. Her family's restaurant makes the best delicacies around, but you don't see eligible bachelors flocking arou...
Ready? To be a daddy? Seth Cooper? That footloose world traveler--and confirmed bachelor--would rather tangle with an angry boa constrictor than hold a squirming baby. And yet... Set? Surrogate mother Katie McKay was all set to have her baby...
THE WORLD IS OUT TO GET SINGLE PEOPLE. Jenny Forrest is convinced of it. Solution: a nonsignificant other of the opposite sex -- relatively attractive, socially presentable, uninterested in a serious relationship -- as a ready-made date to act as...
ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID, NEVER A BRIDE Or, in Brianna Fairchild's case, always a wedding planner was more like it. Because the lovely businesswoman spent her days knee-deep in wedding gowns, bridal bouquets and seating plans--all belonging to other wo...
Tallia Venables was in a bit of a bind. The gorgeous scientist needed some big-time funding for her latest project. But beauty and brains? No one was willing to take her seriously. So, ever resourceful, she donned a brainiac disguise and set out to w...
"RENT-A-WHAT?" Well, a confirmed bachelor like Sam Weller can always use a little help around the house, right? Somebody to do the cooking and the cleaning and maybe even -- strictly to get his meddlesome mother to quit matchmaking -- pre...
SNOWBOUND WITH A STRONG, SEXY ...SOURPUSS? From the moment Randall Watson had practically kidnapped her to help him stop a wedding, Gina Leigh knew their road trip was doomed. She was all for Randall's sweet grandmother eloping--and she was all to...
The Texan: J. D. Pruitt--one hundred percent long, lean cowboy. The Pregnant Cowgirl: Kate Owens--pretty as a picture, and on the verge of single motherhood. J.D. never expected to be working side by side with the most delicious female he'd eve...
WHEN BRITT MET ASHLEY Britt Carlton wasn't looking to fall in love -- he'd been there, done that...and didn't want to do it again! Then Ashley Thornton moved in to his apartment complex, all smiles and sass -- and incredibly sexy -- an...
The Eligible Prince: Travis Rule AKA The Richest Bachelor in Texas. The Unlikely Cinderella: Miss Cindy Ellerbee, Travis's sweet-natured new housekeeper. Was the Lone Star State's most eligible bachelor really thinking of proposing to his very own ho...
THE CATERER "No." It was the only word Fiona Reilly seemed capable of saying to the sexy stranger who had walked into her well-ordered life and turned it upside down with his endless invitations and heart-flipping, sultry smiles. And all because she...
After three broken engagements, Charlotte Westwood needed chip-on-his-shoulder Gabe Szulinski in her life like she needed fleas. After a disastrous marriage to one spoiled rich girl, the last thing single dad Gabe needed was another blue-blooded hone...
Why Carly Carrothers Will Not Fall for Mackenzie James: l. He has a kid. (An adorable little girl, but a kid, nonetheless.) 2. He's your irresistible yet demanding boss. 3. He has a kid. (Remember What happened last time you got involved wit...
"I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU HUSBAND AND BIG FAT LIAR...." Y'know, it isn't like I said to myself, "Eden Wells, today you're going to fool a whole entire town." I just really, really, really wanted to win this beautiful old mansion, and I figured my only p...
Kent Cutler was stranded - on his own ranch, of all places -with one very alluring little lady who had him thinking of things that didn't involve ropin' or wranglin'. Things that were - dare he say it? - romantic. Kent has a notion that she just migh...
The Good News: Liz Casey just met the man of her dreams on the job. The Bad News: She just gave him a speeding ticket. News Flash: He's her new partner! Liz has to work beside sexy hunk Steve Miller, a man who lives life on the edge, while she ...
Size 6... Pristinely feminine... Breathtakingly beautiful... Yep, Julie Myers's unworn wedding gown was pure heaven. Too bad her ex-fiance had thought she was too "nice" to be his bride. So now the dress was for sale... and Julie was in search o...
OOPS...THEY GOT ENGAGED! And they weren't even dating! At least, not romantically speaking. Brianna Tully had disqualified herself from the dating game, but she still needed a pretend date to throw off her meddling family. Grant Addison was happy to...
DAMSEL IN DISTRESS? What happens when a spitfire little lady driving a big rig runs a confirmed cowboy off the road? Fireworks! But no way was single mother Denise Cavanaugh going to swoon at the feet of some gorgeous, rugged wranglin' man, not wh...
NOTHING BUT (DOUBLE) TROUBLE Undercover Detective: Patrick Keegan His Subject: Miss Mari Lamont. Seemingly sweet and innocent, this alluring little lady was a closet lawbreaker. Heck, it seemed every time Patrick turned his back on her, she was up ...
Barbara Stone can't believe her wedding-wary eyes. Her boss is getting married in less than three weeks to someone with the initials S.E.C.! Then Sam Reed reveals the identity of his mystery bride, and Barbara knows she's really in trouble. Not only ...
CHRISTMAS UNDER THE COVERS Take-charge undercover operative Zachary Steele hated playing the role of accommodating secretary to boss lady Chloe Betancourt. But the engaging Southern belle was the prime suspect in his current investigation-and the ...
THE TEN-DAY SENTENCE... When city gal Ginny Marlow stormed into Serendipity, Montana, to bail out her little sister, she didn't expect to be sentenced herself -- to ten days on Sheriff Quint Cutler's ranch! Or that "doing time" with this laid-back l...
NEW YEAR's BABY! When the clock struck twelve, instead of partying hard, wealthy playboy Michael Wentworth was making soft, gooey eyes at a beautiful stranger's newborn. Worse, everyone seemed to think he was the proud papa of Beth Masterson's bou...
HER MISSION, SHOULD SHE ACCEPT IT... Was to get her well-meaning matchmaking mother and meddlesome sisters off her back. So exasperated wedding planner Zoe decided to say yes, just this once, to the blind date everybody else was so nuts about. Becaus...
HOW TO BEAT THE BACHELORETTE BLUES. 1. Find Mr. Right * Carefully make list of qualities needed * Narrow down choices to three polished, professional men * Ignore Max Winston's charms! 2. Date Mr. Right * Attend social functions * Dress properly * Av...
THE COWBOY NEXT DOOR... Morgan Cutler was used to getting headaches from Wyatt McCall--but heartache? Impossible! So why was her sexy neighbor suddenly starting to make her pulse jump and her cheeks blush? Could that one magical wedding night-...
When beautiful Rebecca Chandler showed up on his Texas ranch, JD McCoy's calm life was suddenly turned upside down. In her hands was his runaway sister's baby... that he was supposed to take care of? Taking pity on his lack of fatherhood know-how, Re...
TEMPORARY DADDY No woman could resist a single dad with a toddler in tow. At least, that was what journalist Nick Hansen set out to prove for his article on dating. So in the name of research, the confirmed bachelor borrowed his two-year-old nephew ...
CASSANDRA NEEDED A KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR Somebody handsome, charming, successful -- and willing to pretend he was engaged to her. Just for one night, so her loving but oh-so-nosy family would finally stop meddling in her perfectly happy -- if s...