District Attorney Kelly Whalen was investigating a case that led into the highest circles of Texas society, a murder that someone very important wanted to remain a mystery.

And she was going to need help from the last person she wanted in her life - the ex-husband she'd never quite gotten out of her system . Tony Ashcroft still knew more about crime than any detective in Houston.

Trouble was, he also knew how to get under Kelly's skin - and make her want him with the same breathless hunger she'd always felt for him. And working with him, day after day and night after night, was really turning out to be murder .


Shotgun Bride

by Leann Harris

Published 17 August 2001

SHE WAS A WOMAN IN NEED OF PROTECTION...

and Matthew 'Hawk' Hawkins was the only man who could keep pregnant-with-his-child Renee Girourd safe from the hired killer pursuing her. The rugged lawman promised to guard Renee with his life. Trouble was, his best hope to protect his former flame was to marry her....

Commitment-wary Hawk had vowed never to let any woman break down the protective walls around his heart. Yet sharing close quarters with Renee had him remembering how natural it had felt to held her in his arms, how much she'd touched his soul. And soon Hawk wondered who posed the most danger to him-the killer or his lovely wife?