Look-Alike Lawman

Look-Alike Lawman
Glynna Kaye

A LITTLE BOY’S HERO When big city cop Grayson Wallace visits an elementary school for career day, he finds his heartstrings unexpectedly tugged by a six-year-old fatherless boy. Gray offers to mentor the child, but widowed mother Elise Lopez wants nothing to do with men in uniform. Now he can’t get the struggling Lopezes off his mind.All he can think about is what family means—especially after discovering the identical twin brother he never knew he had in Grasslands. Maybe a trip to ranch country is just what he, Elise and little Cory need.Texas Twins: Two sets of twins, torn apart by family secrets, find their way home.

A Little Boy’s Hero

When big-city cop Grayson Wallace visits an elementary school for career day, he finds his heartstrings unexpectedly tugged by a six-year-old fatherless boy. Gray offers to mentor the child, but widowed mother Elise Lopez wants nothing to do with men in uniform. Now he can’t get the struggling Lopezes off his mind. All he can think about is what family means—especially after discovering the identical twin brother he hadn’t known he had in Grasslands. Maybe a trip to ranch country is just what he, Elise and little Cory need.

“Thank you again for going out of your way for my son,” Elise said. “But he needs to get to his homework and I need to get back to my job.”

Gray smiled down at the boy. “Can’t slack on the homework, mister. Wannabe police officers have to keep up their grades.”

The child groaned, then lifted a hand for a parting high five before trotting back to the house.

The officer turned to her, his probing gaze setting loose a truckload of battering rams in her stomach.

For a moment she thought Cory’s cop was going to say something else. But he merely motioned to her vehicle at the curb. “I’d better let you get on your way.”

She was unwilling to get too chatty with the more-than-attractive man. No, he hadn’t crossed the lines of propriety as some had done. Hadn’t asked her out. Nevertheless, she kept up her guard.

* * *

GLYNNA KAYE

treasures memories of growing up in small midwestern towns—in Iowa, Missouri, Illinois—and vacations spent in another rural community with the Texan side of the family. She traces her love of story-telling to the many times a houseful of great-aunts and great-uncles gathered with her grandma to share hours of what they called “windjammers”—candid, heartwarming, poignant and often humorous tales of their youth and young adulthood.

Glynna now lives in Arizona, and when she isn’t writing she’s gardening and enjoying photography and the great outdoors.

Look-Alike Lawman

Glynna Kaye

www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)

Trust in the Lord with all your heart

and lean not on your own understanding;

in all your ways acknowledge him

and he will make your paths straight.

—Proverbs 3:5,6

To my wonderful Love Inspired editors:

Melissa Endlich, Emily Rodmell and Rachel Burkot. Thank you for believing in me!

Special thanks and acknowledgment to Glynna Kaye for her contribution to the Texas Twins miniseries.

Contents

Chapter One (#u4c4e2576-5bf7-517a-9851-c88041599e57)

Chapter Two (#u8f53739f-c58b-5ace-be7f-41d3a16a5668)

Chapter Three (#u3a6c12ed-2e30-5092-b7ca-b26baa01e017)

Chapter Four (#u5c0a9e91-f8df-5ae7-8d0a-473380ec7a11)

Chapter Five (#u1376a040-b078-57bd-9d0a-32df71b6bbac)

Chapter Six (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Epilogue (#litres_trial_promo)

Dear Reader (#litres_trial_promo)

Questions for Discussion (#litres_trial_promo)

Excerpt (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter One