Monty Davison is a man on a mission: he’s determined to track down his fiancée, Risa Grant. Laurent isn’t about to drop his guard and let Emma work her magic-and it doesn’t help that she finds this dark, brooding man incredibly attractive… The kids and the dog are easy-all they need are routines and love. When she arrives at River Bend and finds two small motherless children, a miserable pet and a man who’s placed his emotions in the deep-freeze, she realizes she’s joined a broken family and it will be down to her to put it back together again. Emma Peabody is a British nanny, looking for a new life in the New World. But maybe there is a solution that won’t demand any emotional input from him: hire a female to whip his turbulent household back into shape. His kids are running wild, and his dog is acting crazy he’s been finding it tough to juggle everything since his wife died, and run his successful custom-built furniture business. Laurent Fletcher has to admit his life would be a whole heap better if there was woman in it. And they aren’t kids any more, so why should they deny the desire that sears through them both? How can walk away from the one man she’s always loved now that she knows what she’s been missing? The moment she and Griffin lock eyes again, the passion that’s always smoldered between them flames. But Emmy is dead wrong about number three.

And she absolutely, positively, won’t feel even a hint of a spark for Griffin Hyatt, grandson of her beloved grandmother’s best friend and the architect of the most embarrassing night of her life ten years ago. She’d much prefer to stay home in Atlanta in a pair of sweats. Her sister Margery’s three-week wedding extravaganza at their grandmother’s Marietta, Montana home will be over-the-top ridiculous.

The Unexpected Bride by Joanne Walsh