“I didn’t want to see you before you got here. I don’t want to see you now!”
“I don’t believe you.”
Laurel threw her hands up in exasperation. “Of course you don’t believe me.” She stalked over to her supply cabinet and rummaged around. “You can’t just walk back into my life and expect things to be the way they were four years ago!”
“Who said I wanted to?” Noah closed the distance between them. “Did I say I wanted to, or did I assume, since your grandmother said you wanted to see me—”
“That I was ready, willing and able to throw myself at you?”
His eyebrows slid up along with his smile. “Aren’t you?”
Of course not.
The words were there, at the tip of Laurel’s tongue. She was certain they were true. So why couldn’t she get them out of her mouth?
Dear Reader,
Heartwarming, emotional, compelling…these are all words that describe Harlequin American Romance. Check out this month’s stellar selection of love stories, which are sure to please.
First, the BRIDES OF THE DESERT ROSE continuity series continues with At the Rancher’s Bidding by Charlotte Maclay. In the delightful story, a princess masquerades as her lady-in-waiting to save herself from an arranged marriage—and ends up falling for a rugged rancher.
Also available this month, bestselling author Judy Christenberry’s Randall Honor resumes her successful BRIDES FOR BROTHERS series about the Randall family of Wyoming. Although they’d shared a night of passion, Victoria Randall wasn’t in the market for a husband…and Dr. Jon Wilson had some serious romancing to do if he was going to get this Randall woman to love and honor him!
Next, when an heiress-in-disguise overhears a handsome executive bet his friend that he could win any woman—including her—she’s determined to teach him a lesson. Don’t miss Catching the Corporate Playboy by Michele Dunaway. And rounding out the month is Stranded at Cupid’s Hideaway, a wonderful reunion romance story from talented author Connie Lane, making her series romance debut.
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Melissa Jeglinski
Associate Senior Editor
Harlequin American Romance
Stranded at Cupid’s Hideaway
Connie Lane
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Connie Lane remembers the day she got her first library card, and the first book she took out of the Cleveland Public Library: Horton Hatches the Egg. In her writing career, she’s found the perfect chance to combine her love of reading with her overactive imagination. Writing as Constance Laux, she’s published nine historical romances. As Connie Lane, she writes both category romance and single-title romantic suspense/comedy. She lives in a suburb of Cleveland with her husband, two children and an oversized Airedale named Hoover.
Books by Connie Lane
HARLEQUIN AMERICAN ROMANCE
932—STRANDED AT CUPID’S HIDEAWAY
Contents
Chapter One
Laurel Burton thought she knew everything there was to know about Cupid’s Hideaway. Though the bed-and-breakfast inn on Lake Erie’s South Bass Island was her grandmother’s brainchild and retirement project, Laurel spent enough time in the rambling old house to know every inch of the place and of the business.
She knew how many bottles of champagne it took to fill the ornate tabletop fountains in each of the inn’s four distinctive—and distinctively named—guest rooms and how many cases of bubble bath were used in the heart-shaped bathtubs and which of the regular guests preferred what kind of scented candles. She knew that the plants in the Almost Paradise room needed to be turned and watered on Mondays and Thursdays, that the martini bar in Smooth Operator had to be restocked at least once a month, that the red velvet drapes in Close to the Heart were a bitch to clean and that there had to be a pair of blue suede shoes under the bed in Love Me Tender. Always.
And even though she didn’t know it for sure, because when it came to profit and loss there was some information Maisie liked to keep to herself, Laurel could guess the kind of killing her grandmother made in the gift shop just off the lobby. There was a big markup on scanty lingerie. Almost as much as there was