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Heart of the West/Bachelor Auction #14
The $4.98 Daddy
Obsession . . .
At last Merrin Ryan has completed her medical training and is out in the real world, working on Dr. Neil McAlister's surgical team. Merrin admires his professional skills, but clearly Neil, who has been widowed for two years, doesn't take proper care of himself. So she provides him with sandwiches and tells him to get proper rest -- and, in nurturing him, she falls passionately in love.
Neil's feelings for Merrin as just as intense. How puzzling, then, that he tells her they must stop seeing each other; that his love for her could damage her hard-fought-for career . . . .
At last Merrin Ryan has completed her medical training and is out in the real world, working on Dr. Neil McAlister's surgical team. Merrin admires his professional skills, but clearly Neil, who has been widowed for two years, doesn't take proper care of himself. So she provides him with sandwiches and tells him to get proper rest -- and, in nurturing him, she falls passionately in love.
Neil's feelings for Merrin as just as intense. How puzzling, then, that he tells her they must stop seeing each other; that his love for her could damage her hard-fought-for career . . . .
- GenresRomance
Mass Market Paperback
First published September 1, 1999
About the author
Jo Leigh
274 books95 followersaka Samantha Beckett
Jolie Kramer began her career in 1975 as a reader in the Comedy Development department for 20th-Century Fox. She left Fox in 1977 to go on location with THE DEER HUNTER. She then worked as an auditor, associate producer and producer on such projects as WHEN SHE SAYS NO for CBS, BEULAH LAND for NBC, GREAT AMERICAN TRAFFIC JAM for NBC and CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR for Jozak Productions. In 1987 she became head of development for the McCarran Film Corp., overseeing a roster of twelve feature films. As a screen writer, she’s had a series idea purchased by Cinemax, and has worked as a script consultant on more than 50 screenplays. Currently, her screenplay APACHE TEARS was optioned by Northern Lights Productions in Canada.
Jo Leigh's first Silhouette novel, SUSPECT, was awarded BEST FIRST SERIES BOOK by Romantic Times Magazine, garnered the 1994 ROMANCE WRITER OF THE YEAR award from Pike’s Peak RWA, and was a finalist for BEST ROMANTIC SUSPENSE NOVEL OF 1994 by Romance Writers of America. Her first Temptation novel, ONE WICKED NIGHT was a finalist for BEST SHORT CONTEMPORARY NOVEL OF 1998 by Romance Writers of America. She was invited to write one of the launch books for the Harlequin imprint, Blaze, with her book GOING FOR IT! Her 2006 Blaze RELENTLESS was a RITA finalist for BEST ROMANTIC SUSPENSE.
She also ghost-wrote GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL DOLL – THE ANNA NICOLE SMITH STORY for Barricade Books.
Jo teaches writing at workshops across the country and on-line, and is a frequent guest speaker at writing conferences. Her tape on Advanced Plotting from the Dallas Romance Writers of America conference is the best selling tape in RWA’s history.
Jo lives in an incredibly rural area of Utah where her many rescue dogs have room to run and play and her rescue cats are determined to win the International Shedding Award. She spends an inordinate amount of time reading about how the brain works, listening to music and trying not to kill the basil.
Jo's husband died of cancer on 13 June 2008, three years after they married, and whose medical bills are astronomical. Authors, editors, and bloggers have all donated a mess of items, from books to critiques to mentoring sessions to offer an item for the auction to benefit author Jo Leigh.
Jolie Kramer began her career in 1975 as a reader in the Comedy Development department for 20th-Century Fox. She left Fox in 1977 to go on location with THE DEER HUNTER. She then worked as an auditor, associate producer and producer on such projects as WHEN SHE SAYS NO for CBS, BEULAH LAND for NBC, GREAT AMERICAN TRAFFIC JAM for NBC and CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR for Jozak Productions. In 1987 she became head of development for the McCarran Film Corp., overseeing a roster of twelve feature films. As a screen writer, she’s had a series idea purchased by Cinemax, and has worked as a script consultant on more than 50 screenplays. Currently, her screenplay APACHE TEARS was optioned by Northern Lights Productions in Canada.
Jo Leigh's first Silhouette novel, SUSPECT, was awarded BEST FIRST SERIES BOOK by Romantic Times Magazine, garnered the 1994 ROMANCE WRITER OF THE YEAR award from Pike’s Peak RWA, and was a finalist for BEST ROMANTIC SUSPENSE NOVEL OF 1994 by Romance Writers of America. Her first Temptation novel, ONE WICKED NIGHT was a finalist for BEST SHORT CONTEMPORARY NOVEL OF 1998 by Romance Writers of America. She was invited to write one of the launch books for the Harlequin imprint, Blaze, with her book GOING FOR IT! Her 2006 Blaze RELENTLESS was a RITA finalist for BEST ROMANTIC SUSPENSE.
She also ghost-wrote GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL DOLL – THE ANNA NICOLE SMITH STORY for Barricade Books.
Jo teaches writing at workshops across the country and on-line, and is a frequent guest speaker at writing conferences. Her tape on Advanced Plotting from the Dallas Romance Writers of America conference is the best selling tape in RWA’s history.
Jo lives in an incredibly rural area of Utah where her many rescue dogs have room to run and play and her rescue cats are determined to win the International Shedding Award. She spends an inordinate amount of time reading about how the brain works, listening to music and trying not to kill the basil.
Jo's husband died of cancer on 13 June 2008, three years after they married, and whose medical bills are astronomical. Authors, editors, and bloggers have all donated a mess of items, from books to critiques to mentoring sessions to offer an item for the auction to benefit author Jo Leigh.
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October 30, 2014
Meet Jarred McCoy. He's 32, owns a construction company in Houston which he built from the ground up, and was currently roped into being part of a charity bachelor auction where he was sold to twin girls for a grand total of $4.98.
Meet Beth Cochran. Recently divorced and raising three children on her own, twin 6-year old girls and a nine year old boy, trying to restore her family home on her own to make it into a B&B.
Now she has some help from sexy Jarred who her children just bought at the auction. She isn't ready to get back into the dating game just yet and Jarred doesn't want to stay in this small town at all. But now all these emotions are coming to surface and neither can fight the attraction.
I liked this story because it was different that some of the other stuff I have read before. The title sounded interesting and I couldn't wait to get started. The little girls are adorable and their brother acts like I would expect a nine-year-old boy to act when separated from his father. It was a quick and easy read. I just wish that there was a little more drama in the mix.
Meet Beth Cochran. Recently divorced and raising three children on her own, twin 6-year old girls and a nine year old boy, trying to restore her family home on her own to make it into a B&B.
Now she has some help from sexy Jarred who her children just bought at the auction. She isn't ready to get back into the dating game just yet and Jarred doesn't want to stay in this small town at all. But now all these emotions are coming to surface and neither can fight the attraction.
I liked this story because it was different that some of the other stuff I have read before. The title sounded interesting and I couldn't wait to get started. The little girls are adorable and their brother acts like I would expect a nine-year-old boy to act when separated from his father. It was a quick and easy read. I just wish that there was a little more drama in the mix.
April 24, 2019
Lost Springs Ranch was famous for turning young mavericks into good men. So word that the ranch was in financial trouble sent a herd of loyal bachelors stampeding back to Wyoming to put themselves on the auction block. Jarred McCoy returned to Lightning Creek "to clear his conscience". Being sold to twin six-year-old girls for the grand sum of $4.98 was not in the plans at all! Neither was getting roped in to helping their mother restore her family ranch house. Neither was falling for Beth Cochran and her irresistible family. But Beth was not in the market for a superhero, no matter what her daughters thought.
August 15, 2020
Awww... Esta historia me robó el corazón. Es una novela muy viejita. Mi cuñada encontró un caja llena de novelas y me las regaló, entre ellas estaba esta. La disfruté tanto!
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