If Jessamyn Carroll had only herself to consider, staying in Pennsylvania after her husbandโs death would have been a no-brainer. Her vindictive in-lawsโ efforts to get their hooks into her infant son, however, force her to flee to a new home. Konigsburg, Texas.
Peaceโฆat least for now. Sheโs even found a way to make some extra money, looking after sexy accountant Lars Toleffsonโs precocious two-year-old daughter. She finds it easyโtoo easyโto let his protective presence lull her into thinking she and her son are safe at last.
Lars, still wounded from enduring a nasty divorce from his cheating ex-wife, tries to fight his attraction to the mysterious, beautiful widow. But when an intruder breaks into her place, and Jess comes clean about her past, all bets are off. Someone wants her babyโand wants Jess out of the picture. Permanently.
Now Jess has a live-in bodyguard, whether she wants him or not. Except she does want himโand he wants her. Yet negotiating a future together will have to overcome a lot of roadblocks: babies, puppies, the entire, meddling Toleffson familyโand a kidnapper
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