Ria Lavender hadn’t planned on spending a passionate Christmas night in front of a roaring fire with Taylor Mackensie.  But somehow the scents of pine tree, wood smoke, and male flesh produced a kind of spontaneous combustion in side her, and morning found the lovely architect lying on her silver fox coat beside the mayor-elect, a man she hardly knew.  Ten weeks later she was pregnant with Taylor’s child…and insisted they had to marry.  A marriage “in name only”, she promised him, to protect the innocent baby, with an annulment right after the birth.  Taylor agreed to a wedding, but shocked Ria with his demand that they live together as husband and wife – in every way.  She couldn’t deny she wanted him, the ladykiller with the devil’s grin, but there was danger in succumbing to the heat he roused – in falling for a man she couldn’t keep.  Taylor knew the child she carried bound her to him, but could his rough and tender loving be the miracle gift she longed for?

The actual book has been scanned.  Good condition with spine creasing and a little edgewear.  Pages lightly tanned.