Baby at his Door

Baby at his Door
Katherine Garbera

First, stranded beauty Lydia Kerr came rapping on his ranch house door. An unbidden sensuality clung to the mysterious damsel, and lawman Evan Powell couldn' t resist getting closer…. Though he was rocked by the man-woman union he experienced with Lydia, he would never again fall for the false promise of love. Then, a second wonder appeared on his stoop– an angelic, abandoned baby! And the sight of Lydia cradling the child caused an entirely unfamiliar pounding in his chest… . Love was knocking on his heart' s door– and wasn' t going anywhere until Evan opened up!

“I Can’t Be The Nine-To-Five, Lawn-Mowing Man Next Door, Lydia.

“But I’d like for you to be my lover,” Evan said.

“What about love?” Lydia asked.

“Love is just a pretty lie that men and women tell each other.”

Lydia tilted her head and stared up at Evan, her wide blue eyes making him feel as if she were probing past his defenses and finding the heart he’d hidden deep within his soul.

“I’m going to show you that love is more than lies and pretty words.”

“And if you don’t?”

“Oh, I will, Sheriff. Even your heart isn’t buried that deep.” Then Lydia turned and walked away.

As he watched her go, he found himself hoping for the glimpse of heaven she’d just so confidently offered him….

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Baby at His Door

Katherine Garbera

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KATHERINE GARBERA

This story is set in rural Florida, a place Katherine Garbera knows well. She grew up on different ranches in south central Florida, producing crops of oranges and gathering eggs. “There is so much more to Florida than most people even realize.” The fictional town of Placid Springs is based very loosely on the city of Okeechobee, where her grandparents lived. Katherine is a member of Romance Writers of America, Novelists, Inc. and the Authors Guild.

This book is dedicated to Kathy and Ed Garbera.

Thanks for raising the wonderful man

who is my husband and for welcoming me

into your family as a daughter, not a daughter-in-law.

Acknowledgments:

Thanks to Kelley Pounds, who answered my questions

on ranching and for being a good enough friend that a

couple pages of questions didn’t intimidate her!

Any errors are my own.

The clerical team at DEP has been an endless source of

support and friendship for me in the last five years,

and I want to thank them all. Being a secretary isn’t

always a glamour job, and these women helped me

do a thankless job with grace and laughter.

Thanks also to my family

for their unending support and love.

And lastly, thanks to Ann Leslie Tuttle

for her insight and wisdom.

Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six