The Mercenary

Two favorite stories of instant families and everlasting love from bestselling author Allison Leigh.Mother in a MomentTaking in five newly orphaned kids wasn't on CEO Garrett Callum's agenda. But he had made a promise to his dying sister that he would look after them, and he would do whatever it took to honor that vow. Only he never expected that persuading the nurse he met at the hospital to help him with the «Fearsome Five» would be his biggest challenge yet. Darby White was sure that if...

SIX FOOT-PLUS OF RUGGED, UNSMILING MALE STOOD THERE…Cage Buchanan hated her. The proud rancher might have hired Belle Day out of sheer desperation, but she was determined to help heal his injured daughter. Now here she was, installed at the Lazy-B Ranch, trying not to respond to this ornery, overbearing, incredibly arousing man.Cage was at the end of his rope. What else explained inviting a Day to live under the same roof? His daughter, Lucy, was Cage's first priority, but with her sexy...

Princess Meredith Elizabeth Penwyck had filled her fantasies with Duke Pierceson Prescott's silvery-green gaze for as long as she could remember. But then they shared a steamy kiss at a royal wedding, and the pristine princess discovered that her feelings were much more than make-believe….Plagued by his perilous past, Duke Prescott had shielded his desire for Princess Meredith since he was a young cadet. But once her lips opened the floodgates of his passion and the truth behind his dark secrets...

MAYBE LAUREL RUNYAN WAS CRAZY…At least that's what everyone seemed to think in Lucius, Montana, when she'd suffered a breakdown after her father supposedly murdered her mother. Now, after a twelve-year absence, she'd returned to bury her estranged father…and her past. But discovering that her first love, Sheriff Shane Golightly, was her new neighbor wasn't the mark of a sane woman. Particularly when just the sound of his molasses-smooth voice recalled the one and only time they'd made love–and...

What was it about the Clay women and alpha males…? Growing up in a family of alpha male ranchers had taught EMT Angeline Clay all about arrogant men like Brody Paine. She’d even mastered the art of rejecting the sexy agent’s none-too-subtle overtures. But this time, Angeline was out of her league…because two children’s lives depended on her masquerading as Brody’s wife! All too soon the high stakes, close quarters and Brody’s unexpected acts of kindness towards their charges wore down her...

He was the most infuriating man.But on television it was a different story. There, Evan Taggart came off as handsome. Confident. Single. A state the reality show played up a little more than producer Leandra Clay planned. All too soon women with the same thought in mind–marriage!–started invading their small town in droves. So now it was payback time. Evan's ultimatum to Leandra–masquerade as his fiancee or he was walking (and her career in television was toast).The choice seemed easy at the...