Adding Up To Family
1+2 = Happily-Ever-After…When widowed Steve Holder needs a housekeeper who can also help with his precocious 10-year-old, they assign Becky Reynolds. Becky gently solves the equation of Steve’s daughter, but the moody widower requires more calculation. Love could be the solution…!
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For the Matchmaking Mamas,
1 + 2 = Happily-Ever-After
When widowed rocket scientist Steve Holder needs a housekeeper who can also help with his precocious ten-year-old, The Matchmaking Mamas assign Becky Reynolds. The math whiz turned domestic engineer gently solves the equation of Steveâs daughter, but the moody widower requires more calculation. Love is definitely part of the solution! Becky just needs to find the right algorithm to solve the equation to Steveâs heart.
USA TODAY bestselling and RITA® Awardâwinning author MARIE FERRARELLA has written more than two hundred and seventy-five books for Mills & Boon, some under the name Marie Nicole. Her romances are beloved by fans worldwide. Visit her website, marieferrarella.com.
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ISBN: 978-1-474-07797-2
ADDING UP TO FAMILY
© 2018 Marie Rydzynski-Ferrarella
Published in Great Britain 2018
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Contents
âPlease, Celia, youâre a mother. You must know what Iâm talking about,â Bonnie Reynolds implored, obviously attempting to appeal to her longtime friendâs maternal instincts. âFor the first twelve years of that girlâs life, I felt as if I could barely keep up with her. Even her homework assignments were so far beyond my own understanding, I had a headache every time I tried to check it.â
Despite the situation that had brought her to Celia, there was pride echoing in Bonnieâs voice as she added, âRebecca whizzed through her studies like it was childâs playâat a time when she was little more than a child herself.â
Celia Parnell smiled understandingly at the distraught woman sitting opposite her in her Bedford, California, office.
When Bonnie had come in, looking as if she was at her witâs end, Celia had closed the door to her small inner office to ensure privacy. Speaking calmly, she had poured them both a cup of vanilla chai tea. Sheâd urged the trim brunette to take a seat and tell her exactly what was troubling her.
And just like that, the words poured out of Bonnie like a dam whose retaining wall had suddenly cracked in half.
Listening, Celia nodded. It was a story she was more than a little familiar with.
âRebecca had a wonderful job, Celia. An absolutely wonderful jobâfor three years. And then one day she decided to just up and leave it. Just like that.â Bonnie snapped her fingers. âDonât get me wrong. When you first offered Rebecca a job with your company, I was grateful. I thought that thisâthis wrinkle
