Автор: Karen Templeton

A Mother’s Wish Karen Templeton Aidan Black only wants his beloved adopted son to be happy. When his son’s mother comes back into their lives, vivacious and beautiful Winnie immediately draws his boy into her spell – not to mention Aidan himself. Would Winnie’s secret shatter Aidan’s family – or make it whole again? Mother To Be Tanya Michaels Delia Carlisle can’t believe she’s pregnant at forty-three. Her whole world is about to change – and she’s not sure it’s for the better! Alexander DiRossi couldn’t be more thrilled with impending parenthood. The only difficulty…

WANTED: A MUM FOR CHRISTMAS!Handsome widower and high-school football coach Ethan Noble is trying to keep four adorably unruly kids in line. He definitely isn’t looking for love… But when his oldest insists her drama teacher, Claire Jacobs, is perfect for him, he can’t resist Claire’s bright smile and infectious laugh.Claire privately admits that Ethan is drop-dead gorgeous – but his family dynamic is seriously complicated. Claire isn’t sure she’d be a good step-mum, but there’s soon no denying that Ethan’s kids love her. It could just be that there’s a happily-ever-after…

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Recently widowed April Ross isn’t looking for a relationship, especially since her about-to-open inn will take up much of her time and energy.But when she hires Iraq war vet Patrick Shaughnessy as the inn’s landscaper, she realises two things: first, his scars go much deeper than those she can see and second, she can’t rest until she’s brought him…

Neighbour, handyman and…husband?Pregnant Laurel Kent tries not to stare at her neighbour, sexy Tyler Noble, who’s helping her around the house. She needs the help more than she cares to admit, but it’s getting nearly impossible to ignore the butterflies she feels every time he smiles at her!All Tyler wants is zero barriers between them and yet he’s repairing the fence separating his yard from Laurel’s! Sure, she’s pregnant and she’s not looking for Husband No.2. But if she’d give him a chance, Tyler could prove that he’s the missing piece to complete her new…

Itinerant chef Eddie King had spent most of his life moving from place to place, looking for something he could never seem to find. But suddenly he found himself headed for the place that had most seemed like home–once.And it was there he found Mala Koleski. He’d known her as a perky teenager; now she was a battle-weary single mother. So why did Eddie find her even more appealing this time around? And, more importantly, what was he going to do about it?Simple: Convince the lovely Mala that underneath her frazzled-mom exterior was a temptress itching to get out. Even take on her whole…

Some men can love forever… It started when Cass’s teenage son called his father to come and visit. Which was how Blake found himself face-to-face with the woman who’d tripped up his heart eighteen years before. Only, now she was pregnant with another man’s child… As if her life wasn’t complicated enough, here was Blake, her ex, in the flesh – even more sexy and irresistible than Cass remembered. But her fantasies of happily-ever-after had ended along with their youthful marriage.Except there was something Cass didn’t know about her former husband: he was a man determined to…

He could handle raising his orphaned little brother. He could handle his demanding career.But what Joe Salazar couldn’t handle was this quirky little town where people actually cared. People like Taylor McIntyre. She had worked wonders with his heartbroken little brother, but she scared the hell out of Joe. Because no kindergarten teacher he’d ever met before could make him hot with desire just by looking at him. Could make him want things he had no business wanting–not when the only way Joe knew how to live was by putting duty before…

Sometimes love just needs a little work…When her life went topsy-turvy, Roxie sought refuge in the town she’d left years before. But as she plunged into renovating a house as an antidote to heartbreak, she faced an obstacle: Noah – still as unattainable as he’d been years before. Noah’s love-‘em-and-leave-‘em exterior belied a hardworking, responsible man…one who made Roxie’s skin prickle with desire.To Noah’s surprise, Roxie haunted his every waking moment. But Noah had no desire for the white picket fence life of Roxie’s dreams. Could he come to terms with “happily…

When hometown boy Ben Vargas shot out of town ten years ago, he also left Mercy Zamora behind.And though she had led the chorus of no strings/no wedding bells/no babies, ten years can change a girl. If only it had changed her feelings for him… And as for Ben–he’d had his reasons for leaving, but Mercy had never been one of them. And so he was home–at least for now.And he should know better than to start something, once more, that he couldn’t finish. Know better than to think that once he had her in his arms, he’d ever be able to let her…

Single mother Joanna Swan had already married one man with a Peter Pan complex, and one was her limit. So now she is determined that romance is for dreamers–and she is one woman with her feet firmly planted on the ground. Even if she does design custom-made Santa Clauses for a living.And that’s where Dale McConnaughy comes in. The sexy-as-sin former baseball superstar–now a toy store mogul–might be irresistible to most women, but Joanna had to resist him. Because after all that she’d been through, what kind of fool would she be to let herself fall in love with another man so…

Karleen Almquist, a thrice-married–and thrice-divorced!–personal shopper, had sworn off men, and their inherent complications…aka babies.Until the most gorgeous widower moved in next door–complete with the two most adorable little boys she’d ever seen. True, Troy Lindquist had been alone a long time, but the ice cream mogul was looking for a real relationship, and his next-door neighbor was clearly not his type.Still, that didn’t stop him from turning to her one night–which resulted in Karleen being pregnant with Troy’s child. First came the baby carriage. Then…

Widowed and penniless, Maddie Kincaid was driving through the tiny town of Haven, Oklahoma, her two small children in tow, when her third child decided to make an appearance. She managed to find the only doctor within miles–Ryan Logan.The rugged, handsome M.D. assisted her delivery just fine. And then he made her an offer she couldn’t refuse….Brooding loner–and incurable workaholic–Ryan had already seen one relationship go down the tubes, and he knew that home and hearth were not for him. No, his interest in–and offer to put up–the beautiful, courageous single mother was…

In the space of a few hours, thirty-year-old Ginger Petrocelli had gone from bride-to-be to bride-who-never-was. So here she sat, alone in her cramped apartment, wedding crinolines askew, drowning her sorrows in a hundred-dollar bottle of Veuve Cliquot, when her doorbell rang. And her trip to hell in a handbasket was about to escalate.At the door: Nick, Ginger’s «first.» Only, he’s a police officer now, and he wants to find out what she knows about her M.I.A. congressman fiancé. When was the last time she’d seen him? She’d better not leave town….And the spiral…

Temporarily retired dancer–and big-city girl– Carly Stewart was aghast when a fender bender caused her to set up housekeeping in Sam Frazier’s house in tiny Haven, Oklahoma. But «aghast» didn’t begin to describe her reaction as she realized she was attracted to this tall, dark and handsome…farmer! And father…of six!Widower and single father Sam had become an expert at reading signs, and the petite and feisty beauty currently residing with him might as well have had «Just Passing Through» written all over her. And though he was finding her nearly impossible to resist,…

Walk down the aisle with Sarah Whitehouse on his arm? Shoot, Dean Parrish had dreamed of that for as long as he could remember. But sexy Sarah wasn’ t the bride, he wasn’ t the groom– and they weren’ t even speaking!Sarah had always known Dean would come back to sleepy Sweetbranch one day. But she’ d expected him to be the rogue who had broken her heart– not the charmer who’ d stolen it in the first place. With their siblings’ wedding looming, the last thing she needed was to rekindle a romance with the best man– and risk him discovering her shocking…

You can take the girl out of Queens…Or can you? Because for five years, fashion assistant Ellie Levine was taking a halfhearted stab at it, commuting to Manhattan by day, trying desperately to keep secret her outerborough existence–that accent, that hair…that daughter. Until the day fate landed her back in her Richmond Hill neighborhood 24/7, the very place she’d sworn to escape.Now she has a business to run there–not the business she had in mind, perhaps, but a business nonetheless. And the boy next door, who for years had been the married-man-next-door, is suddenly available.…

At thirty-one, widow Galen Granata was a veteran of such an unhappy marriage that she had never dared to long for what every woman dreamed of. Like a man to love… and children. So she’ d built a wall around herself that no one had even tried to penetrate.Until Del Farentino. And then Galen found herself face-to-face with the enormously attractive widower– and his deaf little girl. Wendy might not be able to talk in the conventional way, but she– and her sexy single father– were speaking to Galen in a way that no one else ever had. Could she find the courage to accept everything…

A MARRIAGE TO FIGHT FOR…For years, Nancy Shapiro had a secret crush on gorgeous, wealthy Rod Braden, but Nancy knew she had nothing in common with the strong, silent, single dad. Until the night she offered him a little coffee and kindness–and they wound up making a baby!Responsible Rod was prepared to offer his home and his name to Nancy. But he never anticipated that his bride would blast through all his defences. Could Rod convince Nancy that a marriage born of honor was now his heart’s desire?Expectantly YoursBaby on the…

Eiprilę Ros ir Patriką Šonesį sieja tik verslo užsakymas. Ji moka pinigus, jis atlieka darbą. Dabar jaunajai našlei svarbiausia laiku atidaryti užeigą. Tai – naujo jos gyvenimo pradžia. Eiprilės žvilgsnį prikausto Patriko randai, tačiau ne baimė verčia jos širdį plakti greičiau. Patrikas – vienišas tėvas. Jis aiškiai pasakė, kad nebenori kurti santykių. Pirma turi atleisti sau. Į Eiprilės planus vyras taip pat neįtrauktas. Ji neleis Patrikui jaukti minčių. Neleis, kad noras išmokyti jį vėl šypsotis, nugalėtų. Eiprilė nenori tapti tuo vieninteliu…