Adding Up To Family

Adding Up To Family
Marie Ferrarella

1+2 = Happily-Ever-After…When widowed Steve Holder needs a housekeeper who can also help with his precocious 10-year-old, they assign Becky Reynolds. Becky gently solves the equation of Steve’s daughter, but the moody widower requires more calculation. Love could be the solution…!

For the Matchmaking Mamas,

1 + 2 = Happily-Ever-After

When widowed rocket scientist Steve Holder needs a housekeeper who can also help with his precocious ten-year-old, The Matchmaking Mamas assign Becky Reynolds. The math whiz turned domestic engineer gently solves the equation of Steve’s daughter, but the moody widower requires more calculation. Love is definitely part of the solution! Becky just needs to find the right algorithm to solve the equation to Steve’s heart.

USA TODAY bestselling and RITA® Award–winning author MARIE FERRARELLA has written more than two hundred and seventy-five books for Mills & Boon, some under the name Marie Nicole. Her romances are beloved by fans worldwide. Visit her website, marieferrarella.com (http://www.marieferrarella.com).

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Adding Up to Family

Marie Ferrarella

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ISBN: 978-1-474-07797-2

ADDING UP TO FAMILY

© 2018 Marie Rydzynski-Ferrarella

Published in Great Britain 2018

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To

Patience Smith Bloom,

Congratulations on twenty years

As a fantastic editor.

Here’s to the next twenty.

May we see it together.

Contents

Cover (#ua30dbfd0-6323-59bd-9891-d22d31decaa0)

Back Cover Text (#ub4aa716c-3440-5a60-8396-a9b1d78644ba)

About the Author (#ubf8e9683-b588-57b9-b839-2472b25a2b36)

Booklist (#u9e3823eb-e40a-54e1-be55-b5831d01f130)

Title Page (#u5f522452-5e43-5669-b0f7-2add44e587c0)

Copyright (#ub174fa9d-ba2e-51be-9488-82b374a67ff6)

Dedication (#u2569d7bd-dd17-5ef9-89a1-fddf2ce0f492)

Prologue (#ubea57566-2655-5c86-8ddd-bce452240ef4)

Chapter One (#ubbdc4be8-5e58-5447-8d54-f68dbc1c0b70)

Chapter Two (#u22476ef7-d43f-5acc-815b-b654805dd7c1)

Chapter Three (#u1b9d51b7-5d01-5831-973b-3874d3cfec40)

Chapter Four (#u79766535-93c5-51a0-bb07-8da5f3a6417e)