Daddy by Choice

by Marin Thomas

Published 11 January 2005

Ex-rodeo rider JD Gonzalez may be a poor Texas rancher, but he's not dumb. He knows that money can't buy love. So when Josephine Delaney arrives in Brandt's Corner and announces that her motherless nephew would be better off with her rich family in Chicago than on his father's run-down spread, no way will he relinquish custody of his son.

Josephine has seriously underestimated the opposition. JD isn't a daddy because he has to be. He's a daddy because he wants to be-a daddy by choice. He'll never surrender his little boy.

Soon there's something else JD won't surrender-Josephine Delaney herself!


The Cowboy and the Bride

by Marin Thomas

Published 25 May 2004

With one bad marriage under his belt and a little girl by his side, Jake Montgomery solemnly swears that he doesn't want another wife. Until a femme fatale in a wedding dress shows up snagged-like a bird of paradise-on his barbed-wire fence.

That's when forgotten hormones start to buck like broncos and the solo dad knows he's in for the ride of his life.

Madeline Tate just got stood up by her fiance. But who cares-if she's about to be rescued by a guy with eyes as deep and blue as the cloudless Nevada sky? Faced with sweet temptation, Madeline is dying for Jake to invite her in, hoping that if she spends some time under the rancher's roof maybe-just maybe-he'll give love another chance.