Promises, Promises

by Shelley Cooper

Published 1 October 2001

"Have a wild, crazy affair. Of all the promises Gretchen Montgomery was asked to keep after her friend's death, this one posed a problem. Gretchen was not wild or crazy.

She didn't even know any eligible men - except her tenant, Dr. Marco Garibaldi. A look from him made her toes curl. Could she have an affair with him? Well, she had promised.... Marco had made a promise, too. Never marry. A physician's life was too demanding. But as his attraction to Gretchen grew, he couldn't resist her sweet seduction.

Their wild, crazy affair had begun. But it was suddenly interrupted when Gretchen announced she was pregnant. And Marco amazed himself when he considered doing something he'd promised never to do - propose!


Dad In Blue

by Shelley Cooper

Published 16 November 2001

"WILL YOU HELP ME HELP MY SON?"

The beseeching words were spoken by the most enchanting woman police chief Carlo Garibaldi had ever encountered. But Samantha Underwood was off-limits, the widow of an officer he'd lost during his watch. Now she stood before him, enlisting his help to make her boy smile again.

Carlo's gut told him to refuse, but in his heart, his very soul, he wanted to be a hero to mother and son. He couldn't resist trying to coax quiet Jeffrey to talk again, laugh again, be a little boy. And he couldn't resist falling for the one woman he didn't have the right to love....