Fatherhood 101
Could he really be Professor Perfect? A handsome professor in a flannel shirt and a Texas Rangers cap? Returning to university just became less intimidating–and more intriguing–than Sarah Eason expected. As a widow in her thirties and single mom of three, Sarah's hardly a typical coed. Except Professor Cullen Temple is starting to make her feel like one. He's brilliant, attentive, incredibly sweet…and he's winning over her girls. Yet there's something troubled in those gray eyes. Something that makes her wonder if he might be too good to be true.Plus a bonus short story by USA TODAY bestselling author Ingrid Weaver
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Could he really be Professor Perfect?
A handsome professor in a flannel shirt and a Texas Rangers cap? Returning to university just became less intimidatingâand more intriguingâthan Sarah Eason expected. As a widow in her thirties and single mom of three, Sarahâs hardly a typical coed. Except Professor Cullen Temple is starting to make her feel like one. Heâs brilliant, attentive, incredibly sweetâ¦and heâs winning over her girls. Yet thereâs something troubled in those gray eyes. Something that makes her wonder if he might be too good to be true.
Plus a bonus short story by USA TODAY bestselling author Ingrid Weaver
âSounds like your dateâs here.â
âCut it out,â Cullen said, dismissing his brotherâs insinuation. âThe lady needed a friend and I happened to be in the right place at the right moment.â
âYeah, well just watch your step or youâll have a ready-made family on your hands.â
A ready-made familyâ¦
A knock on the door resounded in the entry hall. Rocket began to bark in earnest and giggly girls squealed in response on the front porch. The tranquility of his home was about to be shattered, for the day at least, and he had no one to blame but himself.
A ready-made family?
Perish the thought!
Welcome back to East Texas and life with the Temple Brothers, whose stories are unfolding Deep in the Heart. In Fatherhood 101 youâre going to fall for Cullen Temple, named for Texas oilman and philanthropist Roy Cullen. Cullenâs life seems to be an open book, but in truth itâs more like a confidential file. When an abandoned pup, a young widow and three little girls invade his quiet life, Cullen must decide which is his greater fear: risking the best thing thatâs ever happened to him or risking his grip on reality. In true Lone Star State fashion, Cullen will sweep you off your high heel boots and along with him on his search for happiness.
Before the year is out, youâre also going to get to know Joiner Temple through the eyes of my new writing partner, Gwen Ford Faulkenberry. Gwen is a high school coachâs wife, English teacher and a busy mother of four who knows firsthand the joys and dramas of a big family. Gwen will take Joiner on a wild ride as the polo-playing Temple brother learns how to be a real cowboy.
Until we meet again, let your light shine!
Mae Nunn
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Mae Nunn
MAE NUNN
grew up in Houston and graduated from the University of Texas with a degree in communications. When she fell for a transplanted Englishman living in Atlanta, she moved to Georgia and made an effort to behave like a Southern belle. But when she found that her husband was quite agreeable to life as a born-again Texan, Mae happily returned to her cowgirl roots and cowboy boots! In 2008 Mae retired from thirty years of corporate life to focus on her career as a full-time author.
âAll that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.â âAbraham Lincoln
This book is dedicated to you, Mama. You were my spiritual guide, my champion, my conscience and my example of a Proverbs 31 woman. I miss you so very much.
Wilma Ruth Holliday
February 6, 1929âSeptember 18, 2003
âCULLEN, ITâS TIME you stopped being the Texas version of Peter Pan and accepted some grown-up responsibility,â Dr. Blair Mastal insisted.
âI take umbrage with that statement,â Cullen Temple responded with an upward tilt of his chin that probably needed a shave, as usual.
Blair was a popular professor whoâd been Cullenâs mentor and friend throughout his college career. And after several degrees in history, college truly had become Cullenâs career.
Blair was making a familiar point and it just happened to be shared by Cullenâs three brothers and everybody else who felt compelled to express an opinion on his obsession with higher education.
âWell, you can take umbrage all you want to as long as you take over my classes for the summer term.â
âIâm not a teacher,â Cullen protested. The very thought of being the one accountable for whether or not the students learned all the material in the syllabus caused gooseflesh to prickle the skin beneath his favorite flannel shirt. âI canât replace you in the classroom, Blair.â
âThatâs hogwash. Youâve stood in for me a hundred times over the past dozen or so years.â
