DeAnna Talcott

FROM THE DESK OF EMILY WINTERS Bachelor #3: Lord Breton Hamilton Title: Senior VP of Overseas Operations This month's scheme: Turn his pretend engagement into a real "I do" I can't believe my luck! Not only is gorgeous Brett Hamilton secretly a British lord, but also he's asked pretty paralegal Sunny Robins to be his fiancée! Okay, it's all for show–she gets a temporary place to stay, he convinces his parents he's found true love and avoids the arranged marriage they're plotting for him. But will this mismatched couple of convenience get what they really need when the romantic charade is over: a real, everlasting love? I'm keeping my fingers crossed!

"WILL YOU MARRY ME?" Had Christian Jennings, Mr. Anti-Family himself, really uttered those words? Apparently so, since he was about to march down the aisle with Raylene Rafco! Not that he was in love or anything. No, making his beautiful bookkeeper his wife was simply the noble thing to do.... Raylene was grateful that Christian was willing to say "I do." Though he'd only proposed so she wouldn't lose her adopted daughter, it didn't make his offer any less sweet--or less heartbreaking. She was marrying Christian for her baby's sake but that didn't mean she wasn't craving a little romance. It was just a matter of getting her husband to admit he was in love with her....

Return Of The Prodigal Husband Tough Texan Slade Weston was back to recliam his life—and the wife he'd left years ago. Yet time had changed his bride. Fiercely independent, Crystal denied she wanted him back, but Slade knew better…and set out to prove it! Crystal admitted needing Slade's help with her Christmas tree farm, but darned if she'd be indebted to the stubborn cowboy. Yes, his warm looks still caused her heart to race and sent visions of passionate kisses dancing in her head. But could they ever overcome their painful past and share the perfect marriage once again?

BOY, DID HE HAVE THE WRONG SISTER...! Quiet, demure Abigail Worth had always admired her triplet sister, Natalie, for her spunk -- not to mention her high school boyfriend. So when just-back-in-town boyfriend, now Dr. Jack Conroy, somehow mistook Abbie for her triplet, there was no harm in going along with the pretense for just a little while -- was there? OR DID HE? Confirmed bachelor Jack Conroy thought he'd always known what he wanted in a woman -- and soft, gentle and easygoing wasn't it. So why, when he looked into the love-lit eyes of sweet Abbie, were the strangest ideas popping into his head -- like wedding bells and saying "I do!"?

When dashing single dad Logan Monroe strode into her gift shop seeking a special teddy bear for his foster daughter, Whitney Bloom's heart did a tap dance. Secretly smitten with Logan in her youth, she was irresistibly drawn back into his life–and joined his loving crusade to keep custody of his precious child. But she never expected to propose! Whirled into a fairy-tale wedding to the man of her dreams, instant mom to adorable Amanda, Whitney, who'd long ached for a family of her own, felt as if all her fantasies were finally coming true. Except, those fantasies had never included settling for a platonic union. And deep down, Whitney feared true happiness would always elude her…unless she won Logan's love!