THE TEXAS TATTLER
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Fortune Heir Charged With Murder!
Red Rock is all abuzz with the news that Sheriff Wyatt Grayhawk has charged Jonas Goodfellow with the murder of their uncle, Ryan Fortune. It appears that this importer deliberately gave a poisoned bottle of port wine to the Fortune familyâs patriarch at the recent bash to welcome the lost heirs.
But the burning question on everyoneâs mind isâwhoâs that pretty young blonde who posted his bail money and has been by his side ever since?
That âpretty young blondeâ is Jonasâs loyal assistant, Tara Summers. Ms. Summers flew from their global headquarters in San Francisco to open a satellite office in town, since Jonas canât leave Red Rock until the charges are dropped. Our sources tell us the pair is sharing a suite at a local hotel, but from the looks theyâve been secretly exchanging, Jonas may have just leapt from the frying panâ¦into the fire!
Dear Reader,
Welcome to Silhouette Desire, where every month youâll find six passionate, powerful and provocative romances.
Octoberâs MAN OF THE MONTH is The Taming of Jackson Cade, part of bestselling author BJ Jamesâ MEN OF BELLE TERRE miniseries, in which a tough horse breeder is gentled by a lovely veterinarian. The Texanâs Tiny Secret by Peggy Moreland tells the moving story of a woman in love with the governor of Texas and afraid her scandalous past will hurt him.
The exciting series 20 AMBER COURT continues with Katherine Garberaâs Some Kind of Incredible, in which a secretary teaches her lone-wolf boss to take a chance on love. In Her Bossâs Baby, Cathleen Galitzâs contribution to FORTUNES OF TEXAS: THE LOST HEIRS, a businessman falsely accused of a crime finds help from his faithful assistant and solace in her virginal embrace.
Jacobâs Proposal, the first book in Eileen Wilksâ dynamic new series, TALL, DARK & ELIGIBLE, features a marriage of convenience between a beauty and a devastatingly handsome financier known as the Iceman. And Maureen Childâs popular BACHELOR BATTALION marches on with Last Virgin in California, an opposites-attract romance between a tough, by-the-book marine drill instructor and a free-spirited heroine.
So celebrate the arrival of autumn by indulging yourself with all six of these not-to-be-missed love stories.
Enjoy!
Joan Marlow Golan
Senior Editor, Silhouette Desire
Her Bossâs Baby
Cathleen Galitz
a Wyoming native, teaches English to seventh to twelfth graders in a rural school that houses kindergartners and seniors in the same building. She lives in a small Wyoming town with her husband and two children. When sheâs not busy writing, teaching or working with her Cub Scout den, she can most often be found hiking or snowmobiling in the Wind River Mountains.
Meet the Fortunes of Texas
Meet the Fortunes of Texasâs Lost Heirsâmembership in this Texas family has its privileges and its price. As the family gathers to welcome its newest members, it discovers a murderer in its midstâ¦and passionate new romances that only a true-bred Texas love can bring!
CAST OF CHARACTERS
Jonas Goodfellow: Falsely arrested for Ryan Fortuneâs murder, this lost heir wants nothing more to do with that nest of vipers heâd foolishly hoped would accept him as kith and kin.
Tara Summers: From the day he gave this inexperienced high school graduate her first job, sheâs been in love with her boss. But now that sheâs pregnant with the bossâs baby, is Jonas about to promote her toâ¦wife?
Ryan Fortune: Having faced his own mortality, the family patriarch now has some special gifts in mind for four people who saw him through his darkest hourâ¦.
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
Tara Summers smoothed out the nonexistent wrinkles in the fashionable pink power suit she had chosen expressly for the occasion. Aware that she was the focus of attention in the front office of the small jail-house, she couldnât help fretting if her skirt wasnât a tad too short. She had picked out this particular outfit hoping it would make her feel both professional and sexy. From the head-to-toe ogling she was receiving from the officers on duty, it appeared she had achieved at least one of the two desired effects.
If only Jonas thinks so, she agonized, worrying her lower lip between her teeth.
The irony of the situation did not escape her. Five years ago the tables had been turned, and it had been Jonas Goodfellow who had arrived like a chivalrous knight of old to bail her and his kid stepsister out of jail. Only seventeen at the time, Tara had been mortified when she and Ellen had been incarcerated for a drinking violation following their high-school graduation. Still green around the gills, she had burst into tears at the first inclination that Jonas was about to administer a well-deserved tongue-lashing.