Quaid is the street-tough kid adopted by the tight-knit O’Fallon clan and made one of their own. He still has a hint of danger humming under the surface and a heart fiercely loyal to the man who saved him, Rory O’Fallon. That’s why Quaid’s come back home. What he doesn’t expect is to run into the only person who’s ever cracked his armor, Cynthia James, the rich kid from the other side of the tracks.
The street-tough kid adopted by the O’Fallons and made into one of their own. Quaid’s spent the last few years working in the Coast Guard Search and Rescue in Alaska, but he’s still got a hint of danger humming under the surface—and a heart fiercely loyal to the man who saved him, Rory O’Fallon. That’s why he had to come back home. What he doesn’t expect is to run into the only person who’s ever cracked his armor, Cynthia James.
His attraction to the single mom has lasted years even though they’re worlds apart. She loves New York; he loves the River. She’s Vogue; he’s Field & Stream. He may be a rough-and-tumble river man, but he’s not about to let a second chance at his dream woman get away…
Cynthia came home to Fallon’s Landing after her smooth-talking husband ran her design business into the ground and left her with their son to raise. The last thing she needs is another man in her life except Quaid’s always been a fascination to her. She’s wondered what those strong arms would feel like wrapped around her, or what ways a man that bold might have of pleasing a woman. He’s all wrong for her, but once she shuts out the rest of the world and tastes Quinn’s hungry kisses, all she can think about is just how right he feels…
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Driving to O’Fallon’s Landing in a fourteen-year-old robin’s-egg blue Buick station wagon complete with God Is Coming and She’s Pissed bumper sticker was not the way Cynthia Landon intended to return home. Where was the stretch limo to ballyhoo her great New York success as a designer? The warm summer day where she could drive proudly through town waving though the rolled-down windows?
Gone! Along with all of her other great plans and hard work of the last ten years. “Good-by Fifth Avenue, hello backwater Tennessee,” she murmured into the darkness as rain splattered the two-lane.
She glanced at her eight-year-old son sleeping in the passenger side, head bobbing, seatbelt holding him upright. She smiled in spite of the situation. Lawrence made all her messes seem not quite so... messy and he was the only true thing Aaron had ever given her besides bankruptcy and a rotten marriage. If they fished his sorry lying cheating ass out of the East River someday soon that would be just fine with her.
Lightning split the sky, the Mississippi rolled wild and rough to the left and something darted in front of her. “What the...”
She hit the brakes, skidded and swerved. “Damnation! Now what!”
When Sophie Bayles inadvertently ruins a young man’s chance for employment, she sets out to find him a new position. Even though he doesn’t want her to.
The Matchmaker:
Angela Calminetti, mother of five, New Age practitioner and gifted psychic and telepath, is proud of her family ties and does everything she can to make sure that all of her younger siblings are as happy in love and marriage
