Praise for Barbara McCauleyâs SECRETS!
âMs. McCauley does a splendid job of producing heroes to die for. This scrumptious series is a keeper to read again and again.â
âRendezvous
âBarbara McCauley makes our hearts sing with delight, with zesty interplay and searing passion all wrapped up in a marvelous love story.â
âMelinda Helfer, Romantic Times Magazine
âMs. McCauleyâs latest series is a hit. Fans, old and new, will be delighted with this one.â
âRendezvous
You loved Blackhawkâs Sweet Revenge, Secret Baby Santos and Killianâs Passion.
Now Barbara McCauley brings her fans another scintillating book
Callanâs Proposition
And look for the next installment as the SECRETS! series continues this August in Silhouette Intimate Moments.
Dear Reader,
This April of our 20th anniversary year, Silhouette will continue to shower you with powerful, passionate, provocative love stories!
Cait London offers an irresistible MAN OF THE MONTH, Last Dance, which also launches her brand-new miniseries FREEDOM VALLEY. Sparks fly when a strong woman tries to fight her feelings for the rugged man whoâs returned from her past. Night Music is another winner from BJ Jamesâs popular BLACK WATCH series. Read this touching story about two wounded souls who find redeeming love in each otherâs arms.
Anne Marie Winston returns to Desire with her emotionally provocative Seduction, Cowboy Style, about an alpha male cowboy who seeks revenge by seducing his enemyâs sister. In The Barons of Texas: Jill by Fayrene Preston, THE BARONS OF TEXAS miniseries offers another feisty sister, and the sexy Texan who claims her.
Desireâs theme promotion THE BABY BANK, in which interesting events occur on the way to the sperm bank, continues with Katherine Garberaâs Her Babyâs Father. And Barbara McCauleyâs scandalously sexy miniseries SECRETS! offers another tantalizing tale with Callanâs Proposition, featuring a boss who masquerades as his secretaryâs fiancé.
Please join in the celebration of Silhouetteâs 20th anniversary by indulging in all six Desire titlesâwhich will fulfill your every desire!
Enjoy!
Joan Marlow Golan
Senior Editor, Silhouette Desire
was born and raised in California and has spent a good portion of her life exploring the mountains, beaches and deserts so abundant there. The youngest of five children, she grew up in a small house, and her only chance for a moment alone was to sneak into the backyard with a book and quietly hide away.
With two children of her own now and a busy household, she still finds herself slipping away to enjoy a good novel. A daydreamer and incurable romantic, she says writing has fulfilled her most incredible dream of allâbreathing life into the people in her mind and making them real. She has one loud and demanding Amazon parrot named Fred and a German shepherd named Max. When she can manage the time, she loves to sink her hands into freshly-turned soil and make things grow.
Hot shower. Cold Beer. Woman.
Callan Sinclair sighed just thinking about the top three items on his âto doâ list. After four hours of wading through rain and mud at the construction site in Woodbury, thirty minutes changing a flat on his truck, then nearly four hours on the road, Callan knew that the shower should come first. His jeans and boots were covered with dried mud, and a fine layer of concrete dust made his hair look gray instead of black. And with a throat that felt like a feather duster, the beer would be right behind.
He could see himself now, sitting on a stool at his brother Reeseâs tavern, a tall, frothy ale in an ice-covered mug in his hand, a ball game on the overhead television and Bonnie Raitt blasting from the jukebox. He could almost hear her deep, throaty moan about love gone wrong.
He could probably leave the woman part of his âlistâ until the morning, Callan thought as he trudged up the stairs to his second-story office, but Abigail, his secretary, had seemed determined to reach him. Sheâd paged him three times this morning while he was still at the job site, but heâd forgotten to charge his cell phone the night before and the battery had gone dead.
Whatever the crisis was, Callan was certain that his secretary could take care of it. Behind her tight blond bun, oversize glasses and tailored suits was the most organized, efficient, competent secretary in the world. During the year sheâd worked for him, sheâd always been on time, was never moody or subject to emotional outbursts, was terrific with the clients and best of all, she never bothered him with annoying chatter about her personal life.
Cal didnât even think she had a personal life. He supposed that most people would consider her dull, but what did he care? To him, Abigail Thomas was perfect in every way that mattered.