You are cordially invited to celebrate Christmas, Fortune–style, with these brand–new stories!

Let bestselling authors Barbara Boswell, Jennifer Greene and Jackie Merritt enthrall you with a Texas–size celebration! Determined to repay the people who stood by him in his darkest hours, Ryan Fortune bestows on them three special gifts intended to bring love and the promise of family....

The powerful sheik. Ryan gives wealthy sheik Nico Tan–efi his prized signet ring with hopes that the brooding ruler can woo back his ex–fiancéeé.

His daring rescuers. Two strangers are each given a home––only it's the same house! Can Ryan's matchmaking scheme pull these orphans together?

The diligent doctor. Two million dollars allows researcher Dr. Maggie Taylor to hire her sexy rival to her cause, only his cause is loosening her tightly leashed passion!

 


Hired Bride

by Jackie Merritt

Published 31 March 2001

The Fortunes of Texas: Membership in this family has its privileges... and its price. But what a fortune can't buy, a true–bred Texas love is sure to bring!

THE DECOY

Zane Fortune loved a conquest –– in business or in bed. But some matchmaking Fortunes felt that the tycoon should cast off his playboy coat of arms. So he used cold, hard cash to entice Gwen Hutton to pose as his lady love. Gorgeous, warmhearted Gwen was no threat to Zane's bachelorhood, for she was a mother. Of THREE. And he'd rather lose his jaw–dropping inheritance down a Texas sinkhole than become a surrogate father. But when the ruse is over, Zane felt an undeniable yearning for his pretend fiancee... AND her wonderful children. Could Gwen be the one woman this quintessential bachelor would take into his arms –– and his heart?

A Willing Wife

by Jackie Merritt

Published 16 February 2001

The Fortunes of Texas: Membership in this family has its privileges... and its price. But what a fortune can't buy, a true–bred Texas love is sure to bring!

THE LONER

Sexy widower Dallas Fortune may be Texas's most eligible bachelor but he's remained quietly on the sidelines, content to work the ranch and run the family empire.When he shows up in the nick of time to pull a curious boy out of harm's way, he gets a hands–on introduction to young Travis Randall...and his lovely mother, Maggie.

Temporarily staying at the ranch after losing her banking job, Maggie just wants to get her life back on track. She appreciates Dallas's interest in her son, and is secretly thrilled by his apparent interest in her, but she's a divorced single mom struggling to make ends meet, hardly the type for Dallas Fortune. She's not looking to complicate her life with a passion that has no future. She's got more sense than that. Now if only she can convince Dallas...and her heart.