Decker Cauldron's life is going pretty well: he's got a good job, he loves living on his family's ancestral ranch, and he's surrounded by enough brothers and cousins to support and tease. But under his quiet nature hides a secret: He's always wanted kids...lots of kids. Kids to teach, kids to worry about, kids to spoil and raise into being respected adults.
When Pops starts pressuring him to marry, his yearning for all those kids becomes even stronger. He's going to have to find a wife, isn't he?
Bobbi Rae Diamon is struggling. Though her nursing salary covers rent and groceries for her and her six-year-old daughter, CJ, there's not a lot left over for much else. So when CJ is offered a chance to learn to ride at a local ranch for free,Bobbi jumps at the chance...only to discover the lesson is being offered by the most drop-dead gorgeous man she's ever met: Decker Cauldron.
Bobbi learned a lesson of her own long ago: Falling in love with Decker, no matter how sweet and caring the strong-but-silent cowboy might be, would lead to disaster with heartbreaking consequences. And in no way can she allow CJ to fall in love with him, because the little girl's heart was even more fragile than Bobbi's own.
But CJ has plans of her own. If her mother is too stubborn to see reason, then it's up to the determined six-year-old to bring Bobbi and Decker together herself!
USA Today bestselling author Caroline Lee has been reading romance for so long that her fourth-grade teacher used to make her cover her books with paper jackets, but it wasn't until she (mostly) grew up that she realized she could WRITE it too. So she did.
Caroline is living her own little Happily Ever After in NC with her husband, sons, and brand-new daughter, Princess Wiggles. And while she doesn't so much "suffer" from Pittakionophobia as think all you people who enjoy touching Band-Aids and stickers are the real weirdos, she does adore rodents, and never met a wisk(e)y she didn't like. Caroline was named Time Magazine's Person of the Year in 2006 (just like everyone else) and is really quite funny in person. Promise.