Dixie Browning

    Got this book primarily because it contained an unread Sharon Sala story... that's another author for whom I'm doing a backlist search.
     I knew that I'd like Sala's story, but I didn't expect to enjoy the other two as much.  I've read one or two stories by the other authors before, but nothing that really stood out in my mind.
  But by the stories in this book, I was very taken:  An excellent collection of wonderfully romantic adventures on the way to the altar.  Gotta love 'em. (I  sure do!)

RATING: Excellent ~ 4.0 stars
Steaminess: Romantic to Sensual

It was a fairly decent book but not the best I've ever read. I enjoyed most of the other cattleman books better

Mac Ford is in a hotel relaxing and planning his retirement from the US Marshals when a girl is left at reception, supposedly his half-brother's daughter, with a note. He assumes she's his widowed half-sister-in-law's child and tries to return her, but when he gets there, Banner is not the child's mother. They get stranded on an island with no food and a little girl who won't/can't talk.

This book worked despite the odds. Why despite the odds? Because the H has just suffered a coronary and is looking for a stress-free place to relax when he decides to buy...on sight...a log house owned by a 7 mo pregnant woman who makes him uncomfortable. Not only does he decide to buy it, but he actually moves in and starts taking care of her. If he's so worried about having more heart problems, then the last place he should be is with a woman who could go into labor at any time. (It's possible - I have 4 kids and never made it to the 9th month with any of them!)

MR. SEPTEMBER

The Single Dad: Wealthy bachelor Alex Hightower has three women on his mind....

His Sassy-Mouthed Teenage Daughter: A girl with training bras on her mind.

Laurel Ann Lawless works for her boyrfriend when the company closes because of a money-laundering investigation and Laurel goes to North Carolina to see about an inheritance (one quarter of a swamp) She gets a job there and rents a cabin from Cody, a reclusive writer and spends a lot of time with his daughter Becky while waiting to go back to her real life, but then she and Cody fall in love and s

Stone gets a call from his aunt asking him to keep an eye on Lucy, his cousin's ex-wife because she might cause problems for the cousin's electoral campaign. He has problems reconciling his aunt's story with Lucy because she's nothing like the description and she seems to think his aunt was doing her a favour! Who's telling lies and why? What happens when Stone and Lucy fall in love?

 . . . but, of course, he actually is - and daddy material too.

Frances escapes to her uncle's remote holiday home to write her cookery book and decide what to do with her life, but Brace, her nearest neighbour, is not at all welcoming as he wanted solitude. But when he saves Frances from flu and overly amorous hunters, he realises solitude isn't everything, and then his ex-fiancée turns up. Will she ruin their budding romance?