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Also by Betina Krahn:

White Knight Needed, April 2022
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Hero Wanted, March 2021
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
The Girl with the Sweetest Secret, December 2018
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Three Nights with the Princess, October 2018
Mass Market Paperback
A Good Day to Marry a Duke, December 2017
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Manhunting, February 2010
Mass Market Paperback
Make Me Yours, July 2009
Mass Market Paperback
The Book of True Desires, September 2006
Paperback
The Book of the Seven Delights, June 2005
Paperback
The Enchantment, March 2005
Paperback (reprint)
Not Quite Married, August 2004
Paperback
The Marriage Test, May 2004
Paperback
The Wife Test, July 2003
Paperback
The Paradise Bargain, March 2003
Paperback (reprint)
Just Say Yes, May 2002
Paperback (reprint)
Luck Be a Lady, April 2002
Paperback (reprint)
The Husband Test, November 2001
Paperback
Sweet Talkin' Man, July 2000
Paperback
The Soft Touch, June 1999
Paperback

THE SOFT TOUCH
By: Betina Krahn

To tame a tough man, it takes...The Soft Touch.

Bantam
June 1999
Featuring: Diamond Wingate; "Bear" McQuaid
384 pages
ISBN: 0553576186
Paperback
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Romance Historical

She is a softhearted Baltimore heiress...

Lovely but disastrously tenderhearted Diamond Wingate has terrible trouble saying "No": to the poor and unfortunate who beg at her gates; to entrepreneurs with big plans and no money; and worse, to the silver-tongued young men who line up to propose marriage. So far she has managed to keep her three fiancés a secret, insisting she cannot marry until she turns twenty-three. But her birthday—and disaster—are looming....

He is a hardheaded Westerner...

Rugged, independent "Bear" McQuaid has never taken a dime he didn't earn by his own hard work. But now his dream of building a railroad, so close to coming true, is about to collapse from lack of funds. Approaching Baltimore's infamous "soft touch," he learns she has other assets as well: a delicate, strawberry blond beauty and shining intelligence—and a fascination for the romance of the railroad. Then Bear uncovers Diamond's embarrassment of riches in fiancés as well as money and charms. Now he must make a choice: finance his dream through a little genteel blackmail, or do it the hard way...by falling in love.