Elizabeth Bevarly

Easy read...the opening chapter is great! introduces you to our girl and gives you the skinny on her mindset right from the get go. And somehow you know that the new partner is going to be different!

Cooper Dragan,
paramedic was on site to deliver Katherine Winslow’s baby.

Katherine had
recently found out her rich husband was a bigamist and feared he would take her
baby as his wife could not have children. So she named Cooper as the father and

THE LOVE BET?

The bettor: Sexy Sean Monahan. At stake: dating beautiful — if slightly flaky — Autumn Pulaski, the new girl in town, for more than her prescribed four weeks. If he could only get her to go out with him for eight weeks, then she'd be in danger of breaking her rule. Or was he the one in danger?

Ok, here is the book I was reading and left behind at work on Saturday night.  I got it back last night and finished it this after noon.

The Book: 

Sylvie Venner wanted a baby. She also wanted to maintain
autonomy so she sought a suitable candidate to father her child. One from a
good gene pool for her baby’s sake but also one who would not want to become
involved with her or the baby’s upbringing after cooperating in the child’s
conception. She would even have a contract prepared to protect all parties.

For two years Daniel McGuane had lived next door to Olivia
Venner.. Clean living, hard-working, loyal and caring Daniel had loved Olivia
from first sight and Olivia highly valued his friendship. So much so that she
wasn’t going to get involved with him. She tended to fall for guys that were
anything but nice. Why spoil a good thing.

Carver Venner had reached home after a gruelling 72 hours to
find that he had a 12 year old daughter, Rachel,  that was now in his care. The social worker who united them was
Maddy Garrett, whom he’d known during high school. Amid the challenge of
raising a rebellious worldly kid Carver learns a lot about himself, parenting

This book was very enjoyable.

The premise really appealed:

the dedicated professor
(Rory Monahan) getting distracted from his preoccupation from the fifteenth
edition of “Stegman’s Guide to the Peloponnesian War” by the staid librarian
Miriam Thornbury.

Connor Monaghan,policeman, was working undercover as Connor
Montgomery, businessman. His current suspect was delightfully old world Winona
Thornbury. Winona had always felt she had been born in the wrong century and
wore flowing Victorian dresses and had