His Baby Bargain
Friend. Baby wrangler. Family man? Ex-soldier turned rancher Matt McCabe wants to help his recently widowed friend vet Sara Anderson. She’s like him to join her training service dogs …yet Matt has another offer. He’ll take care of her adorable eight-month-old son, Charley! But this arrangement could bond them in ways they never expected…
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Friend. Baby wrangler. Family man?
A McCabe comes to the rescue!
Ex-soldier turned rancher Matt McCabe wants to help his recently widowed friend and veterinarian, Sara Anderson. She would like him to join her in training service dogs for veterans—oddly, something Matt is averse to. Instead he volunteers to take care of her adorable eight-month-old son, Charley! This “favor” feels more like family every day...though their troubled pasts threaten a happy future. Are their growing love and shared experiences enough to keep them together?
CATHY GILLEN THACKER is married and a mother of three. She and her husband spent eighteen years in Texas and now reside in North Carolina. Her mysteries, romantic comedies and heartwarming family stories have made numerous appearances on bestseller lists, but her best reward, she says, is knowing one of her books made someone’s day a little brighter. A popular Mills & Boon author for many years, she loves telling passionate stories with happy endings and thinks nothing beats a good romance and a hot cup of tea! You can visit Cathy’s website, cathygillenthacker.com, for more information on her upcoming and previously published books, recipes and a list of her favourite things.
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ISBN: 978-1-474-09098-8
HIS BABY BARGAIN
© 2019 Cathy Gillen Thacker
Published in Great Britain 2019
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To Dylan, my favourite chocolate Labrador retriever
and the newest member of the Thacker clan.
Her puppy antics and gentle, intelligent nature
were the inspiration for Champ,
the black Lab puppy in this book.
Contents
“I told you. I’m not doing it.”
Sara Anderson stared at the ex-soldier standing on the other side of the half-demolished pasture fence. Matt McCabe had come back from his tour in the Middle East eighteen months ago and, despite the efforts of family and friends to draw him out, had seemed to go deeper into his self-imposed solitude every day.
This kind of moody isolation wasn’t good, even for a newly minted Laramie County rancher.
Hadn’t she learned that the hard way?
Heaven knew she wasn’t going to willingly allow another similar tragedy to happen again. And especially not to someone she’d once been close to, growing up. Not if she could possibly help it, anyway. And she was determined that she could.
Shivering a little in the cool March air, Sara stepped around the heaps of old metal posts and rusting barbed wire strewn across the empty pasture. She plastered an engaging smile on her face while taking in his handsome profile and tall, muscular physique. With his square jaw and gorgeously chiseled features, Matt had always been mesmerizing. Even when, like now, he did not put much effort into his appearance. His clothes were old, clean and rumpled. Boots scuffed and coated with mud.
