What a night. Face-to-face with Buck Bravo again.
And now sheâd be expected to eat.
So B.J. faked drinking her wine. She even managed to get a little food down. On the polite conversation front, she nodded and made interested noises when spoken to. And she scrupulously avoided looking directly at Buck. No point in going there, nosiree.
Buck was, in all honesty, the man of the hour. There was talk that heâd get a Pulitzer for his last book. And the tabloidsâ¦to read what they wrote about him, youâd think every unattached woman in America longed to claim him for her very own.
Every woman except B.J. She didnât long to claim him. She only longed for him to go away.
And soon he would go away. Heâd go off and write his story and leave her alone to come to grips with the fact that she was going to have his babyâ¦.
Dear Reader,
The editors at Harlequin and Silhouette are thrilled to be able to bring you a brand-new featured author program for 2005! Signature Select aims to single out outstanding stories, contemporary themes and oft-requested classics by some of your favorite series authors and present them to you in a variety of formats bound by truly striking covers.
We want to provide several different types of reading experiences in the new Signature Select program. The Spotlight books offer a single âbig readâ by a talented series author, the Collections present three novellas on a selected theme in one volume, the Sagas contain sprawling, sometimes multi-generational family tales (often related to a favorite family first introduced in series) and the Miniseries feature requested previously published books, with two or, occasionally, three complete stories in one volume. The Signature Select program offers one book in each of these categories per month, and fans of limited continuity series will also find these continuing stories under the Signature Select umbrella.
In addition, these volumes bring you bonus featuresâ¦different in every single book! You may learn more about the author in an extended interview, more about the setting or inspiration for the book, more about subjects related to the theme and, often, a bonus short read will be included. Authors and editors have been outdoing themselves in originating creative material for our bonus featuresâweâre sure youâll be surprised and pleased with the results!
The Signature Select program strives to bring you a variety of reading experiences by authors youâve come to love, as well as by rising stars youâll be glad youâve discovered. Watch for new stories from Janelle Denison, Donna Kauffman, Leslie Kelly, Marie Ferrarella, Suzanne Forster, Stephanie Bond, Christine Rimmer and scores more of the brightest talents in romance fiction!
The excitement continues!
Warm wishes for happy reading,
Marsha Zinberg
Executive Editor
The Signature Select Program
Dear Reader,
Strong women. You gotta love âem. I do. I like to think that I am a strong woman. And I like to write about strong heroines, women who know what they want and arenât afraid to go out and get it.
Such a woman is B. J. Carlyle, the heroine of Bravo Unwrapped. B.J. is brilliant and, okay, sheâs more than a little domineering. She loves pricey designer shoes and sheâs a New Yorker through and through. She also happens to be pregnant, and sheâs just decided that sheâs no good at the man/woman thing. Her relationships somehow never work out. Sheâs giving up men.
I know what youâre thinking: Not going to happen. You are so right. Because, of course, thereâs the father of her baby, Buck Bravo, the one man sheâs never been able to forget.
Buck canât forget her, eitherâand he doesnât even know thereâs a baby involved. Buck has decided heâs getting himself another chance with B.J., whether B.J. wants that chance or not. From New York to California and back again, Buck is determined to lay claim to the woman he knows is meant for him.
Happy holidays everyone,
Christine Rimmer
For my dad, who always believed I could do anything I set out to doâand who made sure that I believed it, too.
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Bonus Materials
Author Interview:
A conversation with Christine Rimmer
Recipe: Sierra Star Pumpkin Muffins
The Ballad of Blake Bravo
The Bravos: Heroes, Heroines and Their Stories
Sneak Peak: Bravo Family Way
For B. J. Carlyle, features editor at Alpha magazine, that fateful day in late October started out in abject wretchednessâand went downhill from there.
B.J. was not someone who hit the snooze button as a rule, but that morning she did. She hit it. And she kept hitting it every five minutes for over an hour. Eventually, she realized it was either get upâor admit she was taking a sick day. B. J. Carlyle did not take sick days.