Three Crying Babies + 26 Hours + 800 Miles = One Desperate Man! Fireman Jed Hale is used to being in control. But twenty-six hours of babysitting his sister's infant triplets is making him feel utterly helpless. His sister Patti was supposed to be back yesterday.Now he's worried. But he's pretty sure where she is—at the family cabin eight hundred miles away. Jed needs a miracle—fast. And that's exactly what he gets when his new, very beautiful neighbor Annie Harnesberry drops by to offer a helping hand. She seems to have a magic touch with babies and calms the triplets down within minutes. In an act of desperation, Jed asks Annie to join him and the triplets on his mission to find Patti—and Annie accepts! Jed has never needed anyone, but he's starting to think that needing Annie wouldn't be so bad….
She makes him feel like a superhero… For all his success, Aidan Nikolas couldn’t save his wife.
DADDY'S LITTLE BOY?
wasn't sure why, but she couldn't stop thinking about Katherine Palmer. The midwife. She'd pushed the woman out of her head since the day after the bombshell in the lawyer's office, when Holton had assured her the midwife had retired, ...
“No, hon, Mr. Moore's fine. Just sleeping.” Six in the morning on Christmas Eve, freezing rain clattering like a million dimes on the barn's tin roof, Gage Moore was sound asleep in Honey and Buttercup's stall, using a hay bale for a ...
Temporary Father
Dad interrupted my thoughts telling me it was time to join the baroness. “What a transformation,” he ... Eastern Prussia will be the first battleground” “It's only temporary,” Dad had answered, but I knew he felt as uneasy as I did.
This is only temporary.” Dad winces. “Yes, but I'll miss you.” I stare at the leafcovered ground, a small rush of regret making my chest ache. Leaving Dad was always going to be the worst part of leaving home. “I'll miss you, too.
I hated being liked because of the money my father had, or because of his intimidating personality. ... Dad had to order them from overseas, catering to my needs. ... I was glad this was just temporary. Dad made a friend named Mercedes, ...
Some parents worried that their kids might get hit by lightning, but Mom and Dad never did, and they let us go out and play in the warm, driving water. ... All this running around and moving was temporary, Dad explained. He had a plan.
I just didn't expect the fight would be between me and Dad. ... But now that we're seeing each other every day like a regular dad and daughter, somehow he thinks he can go all official father figure on me instead of temporary dad.