Praise for Dixie Browning:
âThere is no one writing romance today who touches the heart and tickles the ribs like Dixie Browning. The people in her books are as warm and real as a sunbeam and just as lovely.â
âNew York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts
âDixie Browning has given the romance industry years of love and laughter in her wonderful books.â
âNew York Times bestselling author Linda Howard
âEach of Dixieâs books is a keeper guaranteed to warm the heart and delight the senses.â
âNew York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz
âA true pioneer in romantic fiction, the delightful Dixie Browning is a readerâs most precious treasure, a constant source of outstanding entertainment.â
âRomantic Times
âDixieâs books never disappointâthey always lift your spirit!â
âUSA TODAY bestselling author Mary Lynn Baxter
Where the price of family and honor is loveâ¦
Donât miss the continuation of this exciting new series from Silhouette Desire and Harlequin Historicals:
BECKETTâS BIRTHRIGHT
HARLEQUIN HISTORICALS 11/02
BECKETTâS CONVENIENT BRIDE
SILHOUETTE DESIRE 1/03
Dear Reader,
Dog days of summer got you down? Chill out and relax with six brand-new love stories from Silhouette Desire!
Augustâs MAN OF THE MONTH is the first book in the exciting family-based saga BECKETTâS FORTUNE by Dixie Browning. Beckettâs Cinderella features a hero honor-bound to repay a generations-old debt and a poor-but-proud heroine leery of love and money she canât believe is offered unconditionally. His E-Mail Order Wife by Kristi Gold, in which matchmaking relatives use the Internet to find a high-powered exec a bride, is the latest title in the powerful DYNASTIES: THE CONNELLYS series.
A daughter seeking revenge discovers love instead in Falling for the Enemy by Shawna Delacorte. Then, in Millionaire Cop & Mom-To-Be by Charlotte Hughes, a jilted, pregnant bride is rescued by her childhood sweetheart.
Passion flares between a family-minded rancher and a marriage-shy divorcée in Kathie DeNoskyâs Cowboy Boss. And a pretend marriage leads to undeniable passion in Desperado Dad by Linda Conrad.
So find some shade, grab a cold oneâ¦and read all six passionate, powerful and provocative new love stories from Silhouette Desire this month.
Enjoy!
Joan Marlow Golan
Senior Editor, Silhouette Desire
Beckettâs Cinderella
Dixie Browning
is an award-winning painter and writer, mother and grandmother. Her father was a big-league baseball player, her grandfather a sea captain. In addition to her nearly eighty contemporary romances, Dixie and her sister, Mary Williams, have written more than a dozen historical romances under the name Bronwyn Williams. Contact Dixie at www.dixiebrowning.com, or at P.O. Box 1389, Buxton, NC 27920.
To the wonderful and caring staff
at Britthaven Nursing Home in Kitty Hawk, N.C. Youâre the best!
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Just before his descent into Norfolk International Airport, Lancelot Beckett opened his briefcase, took out a thin sheaf of paper and scanned a genealogical chart. In the beginning, all theyâd had to go on was a name, an approximate birthplace and a rough time line. Now, after God knows how many generations, the job was finally going to get done.
âWhat the hell do I know about tracking down the descendents of an Oklahoma cowboy born roughly a hundred and fifty years ago?â heâd demanded the last time heâd stopped by his cousin Carsonâs restored shotgun-style house outside Charleston. âWhen it comes to tracking down pirates, Iâm your man, but cowboys? Come on, Car, give me a break.â
âHey, if you canât handle it, Iâll take over once Iâm out of this.â Carson, a police detective, was pretty well immobilized for the time being in a fiberglass cast. Now and then, even the Beckett luck ran out. About two months earlier, his had. âLooks like something you can do on your way home anyhow, so itâs not like youâd have to detour too far off the beaten track.â
âYou know where I was when Mom tracked me down? I was in Dublin, for crying out loud,â Beckett had explained. They were both Becketts, but Lancelot had laid down the law regarding his name when he was eleven. Since then, heâd been called by his last name. Occasionally, tongue-in-cheek, he was referred to as âThe Beckett.â
âI had to cancel a couple of appointments in London, not to mention a date. Besides, Iâm not headed home anytime soon.â
What was the point? Officially, home was a two-room office with second-floor living quarters in Wilmington, Delaware. It served well enough as a mailing address and a place to put his feet up for a few days when he happened to be back in the States.
As it turned out, the place where the Chandler woman was thought to be hiding out was roughly halfway between Wilmington and his parentsâ home in Charleston.