Books published by publisher Silhouette Books

The truth was, Jan Folger had never really given Junior Busby a second thought--even though he'd lived next door to her for about a million years. But her charity group was holding a bachelor auction. They needed one more eligible man to put on the block...and she supposed Junior would just have to do. Then the local paper went and ran a photo of the fully grown Junior--wearing jeans and a five o'clock shadow--and suddenly it seemed like every woman in Byford, Indiana, wanted to know him better--a whole lot better. And Jan was starting to wonder if maybe she hadn't overlooked a hot property right there in her own neighborhood ...

Every thirteenth summer, the cicadas returned to Wilamet, Oklahoma, and this year Susanna Foster vowed to come back, too. Once, she'd been passionately determined to right the world's wrongs, to "make a difference" in the nation's capital. But bureaucracy had led to statistics, not solutions, to pencil-pushing, not people--and certainly not passion. So Susanna was coming home, home to simple things, trustworthy people, men who stood tall and proud. One such man had been the star of her every Washington daydream: