The Mckennas: Finn, Riley and Brody: One Day to Find a Husband
One Day to Find a HusbandIt was her best friend’s dying wish that Ellie raise her baby – but to adopttiny Jiao, Ellie has to be married! All seems lost…until Finn McKenna needs her help. Rival Finn may be an unlikely choice but Ellie proposes a merger with a twist: marriage!How the Playboy Got SeriousRiley McKenna has led a charmed life – until he’s cut off from the family trust fund. Applying for a job at Stace Kettering’s diner, he expects Stace to fall for him like all the others…but this playboy doesn’t realise he’s finally met his match!Return of the Last McKennaWhile volunteering in Afghanistan, a dying friend asked Dr Brody McKenna to watch over his sister. But when he arrives at her cosy sweet shop, Brody is taken aback – sassy Kate Spencer doesn’t need looking after! Yet somehow he can’t help but insist…
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New York Times bestselling author SHIRLEY JUMP didnât have the will-power to diet, nor the talent to master under-eye concealer, so she bowed out of a career in television and opted instead for a career where she could be paid to eat at her deskâwriting. At first, seeking revenge on her children for their grocery store tantrums, she sold embarrassing essays about them to anthologies. However, it wasnât enough to feed her growing addiction to writing funny. So she turned to the world of romance novels, where messes are (usually) cleaned up before The End. In the worlds Shirley gets to create and control, the children listen to their parents, the husbands always remember holidays and the housework is magically done by elves. Though sheâs thrilled to see her books in stores around the world, Shirley mostly writes because it gives her an excuse to avoid cleaning the toilets and helps feed her shoe habit.
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The McKennas: Finn, Riley & Brody
One Day to Find a Husband
How the Playboy Got Serious
Return of the Last McKenna
Shirley Jump
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Shirley Jump
To my husband, who truly is my hero every day of my life. Thank you for blessing me with your love, and with our amazing children.
FINN MCKENNA wanted one thing.
And she was standing fifteen feet away, completely unaware of what he was about to do and definitely not expecting the question he wanted to ask her. He watched the womanâtall, blonde, leggy, the kind any man in his right mind could imagine taking to dinner, twirling around a dance floor, holding close at the end of the nightâand hoped like hell his plan worked.
If he was his grandfather, heâd have been toting the McKenna four-leaf clover in his pocket, knocking three times on the banister and whispering a prayer to the Lord above. Finn McKennaâs ancestors were nothing if not superstitious. Finn, on the other hand, believed in the kind of luck fostered by good research and hard work. Not the kind brought about by leprechauns and rainbows.
Heâd put enough time into this project, that was for sure. Turned the idea left, right and upside down in his head. Done his research, twice over. In short, reassured himself as much as one man could that the lady he was going to talk to would say â¦
Yes.
âYouâre insane.â
Finn turned and shrugged at his little brother. Riley McKenna had the same dark brown hair and sky-blue eyes as the rest of the McKenna boys, but something about Riley, maybe his grin or his devil-may-care attitude, gave those same features a little spin of dashing. Finn had inherited the serious, hard lines of his workaholic father, where Riley had more of their free-spirited motherâs twinkle. âIâm not crazy, Riley. Itâs business. Risks are part of the job.â
âHere.â Riley handed him a glass. âI talked the bartender into pouring you and me some good quality Irish ale.â
âThanks.â Finn sipped at the dark brew. It slid down his throat with smooth, almost spicy notes. The beer was dry, yet robust, the kind that promised a memorable drink in a single pint. A thick head of foam on top indicated the quality of the ale. Good choice on Rileyâs part, but Finn wasnât surprised. His little brother knew his brews.
All around him, people mingled and networked over several-hundred-dollar-a-bottle wines and martinis with names so fancy they needed their own dictionary. In this crowd, a beer stuck out like a dandelion in a field of manicured roses, but Finn McKenna had never been one to worry much about breaking the rules or caring what other people thought about him. It was what had fueled his success.
And had also been a part of his recent failure.
A temporary state, he reminded himself. Tonight, he was going to change all of that. He was going to rebuild his business and he was going to use Ellie Winston, interim CEO of WW Architectural Design, to help him do it.
She just didnât know it yet.
Eleanor Winston, known by those close to her as âEllie,â the new boss of WW, her fatherâs company. Henry Winston Sr., one of the two Ws in the company name, had retired suddenly a couple weeks ago. Rumor was heâd had a major heart attack and would probably not return to the chair. The other W, his brother, had walked out in a family dispute eleven years prior, but his name remained on the masthead.
