Heartstrings — Rebecca Paisley

WANTED: TALL, DARK-HAIRED, BLUE-EYED MAN TO SIRE GENIUS CHILD. $100 CASH IN GOLD

Men flocked like flies to honey, drawn by Theodosia Worth's intoxicating whiskey eyes, masses of golden hair..and her blatant ad. Theodosia had traveled west from Boston with a secret mission: to bear a baby for her childless sister, in a strictly-business affair. Books were her only passion -- until she hired a bodyguard who turned out to be a hands-on-encyclopedia of love...

Roman Montana galloped into town on his silver steed -- only to be unseated by a parrot's angry squawk, and catapulted into a pile of steaming manure. The parrot's ravishing owner was Theodosia Worth, his new employer, a genius without an ounce of horse sense ! The infuriating woman wanted him to post ads for a stud, then protect her from the lechers who applied. He tried to save her from herself. But how could he save himself from the thoroughbred fill who'd thrown him at first sight...