Christine Rimmer

Together for the first time in one volume, two marriage of convenience stories from New York Times bestselling authors Christine Rimmer and Allison Leigh! The Marriage Conspiracy Joleen Tilly is facing every mother's worst nightmare—a custody battle for her son, Sam. When Sam's grandparents demand she turn over her son, Joleen turns to her best friend, Detective Dekker Smith, for comfort. Instead, he offers an astonishing solution: a most convenient marriage! But will Joleen be able to contain her growing love for her in-name-only husband? The Billionaire's Baby Plan To save her family's fertility clinic, Lisa Armstrong agrees to have venture capitalist Rourke Devlin's baby. First, though, she has to become Mrs. Rourke Devlin! Rourke wants a family the old-fashioned way and marriage will give them both what they want. But their temporary arrangement blossoms into something much deeper and their agreement could be threatened.

"Tate Bravo...I'm pregnant..."Mayor Molly O'Dare had sworn she would never end up like her granny or her mother before her: pregnant and unmarried. Yet here she was expecting Tate Bravo's baby. The very man who thought her town was his town....Now, not only was Tate proposing marriage, he was "demanding" she marry him—again...and again...and again. The secret passion they shared drew them together; his constant proposals were tearing them apart....Until, with the help of Molly's meddling mother, Tate had a plan. So would Molly be an immovable object—or would Tate indeed be Marrying Molly before the baby was born?

♡His Cinderella Heiress - Marion Lennox A castle to call home… After years in foster care, Jo Conaill has never settled anywhere. Traveling to Ireland to claim a surprise inheritance—a castle!—is a chance to reconnect with her past. And when she's rescued by handsome landowner Finn, their sizzling chemistry is undeniable… Except Finn turns out to be Lord of Glenconaill, whom she must share her inheritance with! Jo has no plans to stay, but living in the castle with gorgeous Finn is an unexpected temptation. Has she found the home she's always craved in Finn's arms…? Warning: sweet! Closed door. Lovely chapter 10/epilogue, sigh! But, must read the other 9 ch. to do the "sigh"

FIRST COMES MELINDA WITH A BABY CARRIAGE... Pure chance brought big-city girl Melinda Bravo and rugged rancher Cole Yuma together in time to deliver his sister's newborn. But it was pure desire -- baby and otherwise -- that convinced her there would be no harm in pretending the baby was hers and Cole's... just for a little while. THEN COMES MARRIAGE.... And it only made sense that she and Cole also assume the roles of husband and wife -- strictly for show, of course. THEN COMES LOVE! Melinda and Cole both knew that despite their mutual attraction, they had nothing in common! So why, suddenly, was each of them fantasizing about making their pretend marriage the real thing? Conveniently Yours: The Bravo men's marriages may have begun in name only -- but were they destined to be love matches after all?

Wagered Woman Prim-and-proper Delilah Jones was so ornery that her no-good daddy was gambling the mercantile to buy her a bridegroom. But bushy-bearded Sam Fletcher would have to be loco to bet on bedding the cantankerous spinster who'd long since branded him a rude, crude, low-down longhair. Still, the sparks they'd always struck off each other were suddenly igniting a hot new hunger in Sam, and the prospect of taming the sexy shrew was beginning to look downright irresistible .. . . But with her snapping eyes and siren's body, little Lilah proved stiff competition for strongman Sam . . . and soon it was anyone's wager who would tame whom when Sam took on Delilah! Man of the Mountain Lord knows he'd warned her. Warned Eden Parker that he was a Jones male through and through-surly as a skinned rattler and nothing but trouble for the cutest, mouthiest do-gooder ever to set foot in town. Though Eden had single-handedly rehabilitated his daddy's tumbledown saloon, no way would she renovate Jared's busted dreams or ramshackle heart. But Eden at long last found someone to love in the ornery lumberjack come down from the hills. And with a little help from the notorious Joneses, the leggy redhead became a posse of one-out to lasso her man! THE JONES GANG: three rapscallion brothers. Their main talent: making trouble. Their only hope: three uncommon women who knew the way to heal a wounded heart! A Home for the Hunter With shrewd precision and fathomless cool, tracker Jack Roper always got his man. Yet quirky runaway heiress Olivia Larrabee kept him hopping, from glittering Las Vegas to folksy North Magdalene. Worse, her aching innocence was making its way into his loner's heart, filling it with love, laughter and a rowdy clan named Jones. Soon, closing in on Olivia felt like coming home. And that's when Jack knew he was out of his depth-- and out of his mind! THE JONES GANG: Three rapscallion brothers. Their main talent: making trouble. Their only hope: three uncommon women who knew the way to heal a wounded heart! (A book in the Jones Gang series)

SHE WAS A DOCTOR OF LOVE... Nevada Jones was used to dispensing advice to the lovelorn - only, this time it was clearly a case of physician, heal thyself! Because even though she'd long ago decided that love was only for other people, hard-driving Chase McQuaid was the one man she'd never been able to forget. ...WHO HAD NEVER BEEN KISSED! Chase McQuaid was used to getting what he wanted - and sassy, redheaded talk-show host Nevada Jones definitely fell into that category. Now if only he could convince her to get off the airwaves...and into his arms!

In the wake of factory closings and his beloved wife's death, Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to London, seeking work to support his mother and his little daughter. After a spell of homelessness, he finds a job in the kitchen of a posh restaurant, and a room in the house of an appealing Irishman who has also lost his family. Never mind that Lev must sleep in a bunk bed surrounded by plastic toys--he has found a friend and shelter. However constricted his life in England remains he compensates by daydreaming of home, by having an affair with a younger restaurant worker (and dodging the attentions of other women), and by trading gossip and ambitions via cell phone with his hilarious old friend Rudi who, dreaming of the wealthy West, lives largely for his battered Chevrolet. Homesickness dogs Lev, not only for nostalgic reasons, but because he doesn't belong, body or soul, to his new country-but can he really go home again? Rose Tremain's prodigious talents as a prose writer are on full display in THE ROAD HOME, but her novel never loses sight of what is truly important in the lives we lead.

All I want for Christmas:1) A good bottle of champagne2) A free-range turkey3) A cozy snow-covered cabinWith that list, lifestyle columnist Jillian Diamond was making a statement about what she didn't want for Christmas—a man. Of course, one happened to come along with said cozy snow-covered cabin—and he was a sight for sore eyes, even if Christmas wasn't exactly his favorite holiday.Will "Scrooge" Bravo was well-known for his antipathy toward that most wonderful time of year. And all he wanted for Christmas was to be alone. Then into his den of solitude walked beautiful, miniskirt-clad Jilly. She hadn't been on his Christmas list, so why was he so tempted to gift-wrap her, put her under his tree...and join her there...?

A MOST UNLIKELY HERO He was the kind of man her mama warned her about, workaday rancher Sophie B. Jones realized, as she looked up to find Sinclair Riker's unrelenting gaze on her. But resisting him was not an option, for though his words hinted at the darkness of his soul, his eyes spoke another message altogether -- one that Sophie could not help but answer.... Sinclair knew better than to fall for an innocent like Sophie Jones. He knew that heartless seduction was supposed to be his stock-in-trade, and that he had come to the ranch with one purpose only -- to do Sophie out of her beloved land, by any means possible. So what was it about this woman that had him yearning for the purity of her soul? And could love really turn Sin... into Sophie's saint?