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Fresh Fiction for August Is Here

Cowboys, castles, and shiftersβ€”this month has it all.

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Hotter than a Tuscan summer.


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Some promises cost you the one you love.


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Only she can pull him back from the darkness.


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One golden retriever knows this is love.


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Trust is the fiercest transformation of all.


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From Himalayan stargazing to the London Blitzβ€”one love endures.

Make-Believe Matrimony by Kathern Shaw

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Make-Believe Matrimony, February 2001
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MAKE-BELIEVE MATRIMONY
By: Kathern Shaw

Zebra
February 2001
256 pages
ISBN: 0821767925
Paperback
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Romance

FIRST COMES MARRIAGE . . . THEN COMES LOVE? For Annie Brown, winning the lottery is a mixed blessing. While it's hard to argue with the extra fifty million in her bank account, she never expected to be besieged by a battalion of wanna-be husbands who pursue her all over town. Spirited and self-reliant to the core, she refuses to believe she's the kind of woman who needs a man to protect her--until hunky Detective Ryan Armstrong makes her an offer she can't refuse.

When Annie tells Ryan she won't press charges on a "harmless" admirer camped outside her house, Ryan thinks she's as naive as she is gorgeous. But after a frightening stalking incident leaves her shaken, Ryan comes up with a way to discourage her persistent suitors: pretend he and Annie are married. It isn't long though, before this practical arrangement turns passionate... and Ryan becomes determined to show his lovely "wife" that true love is her best protection.

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