The Bachelor's Baby

The Bachelor's Baby
Teresa Southwick

CONGRATULATIONS, COWBOY…Tucker Smith had waited one long year for his second "date" with the pretty lady he'd shared one passionate night with. But nothing had prepared the rugged rodeo man for the three little words that Casey Wright had come to tell him….YOU'RE A FATHER!That's all Casey had to say to Tucker. After all, besides a child, they had nothing between them but chemistry. And desire was not something to build a family on. But when Tucker hauled her to his ranch to set up house, she wondered if there was more to the sexy cowboy than blue eyes and brawn. Could this confirmed bachelor have marriage on his mind?

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Cover Page (#ubd82b0c9-dcd7-51be-ae6d-c26ab59e5905)

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Dear Reader (#u85c47ac0-2aee-5d56-a86a-f8c40c5db7fc)

Title Page (#u9ae39086-047b-510a-90ad-1b785ecebbf5)

Dedication (#u0aeb5b5a-7d49-516d-aff6-4d0e170d11ca)

About the Author (#ueeb7ab70-63af-5d0b-9bc1-2da706315117)

Chapter One (#u2e0b62d1-4806-5432-a524-65c78435c722)

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“I came to see my child,”

Tucker said, resting his wide palm against the front door to keep her from slamming it

“That’s not what you wanted last night,” Casey replied.

“I’m sorry, Casey, but you have to admit news like that comes as a shock to a man.”

“Why did you bother to find me? For that matter, why did you keep a date we made a year ago?”

His gaze turned intense as he looked from the top of her head, down to her pink painted toenails. “I had to see for myself if you were as cute as I remembered. If your eyes were still as green as the hills after a rainstorm.”

Her knees went weak as soft-serve ice cream. Just like the first time she’d seen him.

“As for why I bothered coming today, I want to see the baby. I need to see my son.”

Dear Reader (#ulink_cbce15b2-3747-5dc3-8229-7fb44b7edf65),

The month of June makes me think of June brides, Father’s Day and the first bloom of summer love. And Silhouette Romance is celebrating the start of summer with six wonderful books about love and romance.

Our BUNDLE OF JOY this month is delivered by Stella Bagwell’s The Tycoon’s Tots—her thirtieth Silhouette book. As her TWINS ON THE DOORSTEP miniseries continues, we finally discover who gets to keep those adorable babies…and find romance in the bargain.

Elizabeth August is back with her much-loved SMYTHESHIRE, MASSACHUSETTS series. In The Determined Virgin you’ll meet a woman whose marriage of convenience is proving to be very inconvenient, thanks to her intense attraction to her “in-name-only” husband.

BACHELOR GULCH is a little town that needs women, and the name of Sandra Steffen’s brand-new miniseries. The fun begins in Luke’s Would-Be Bride as a local bachelor falls for his feisty receptionist—the one woman in town not looking for a husband!

And there are plenty more compelling romances for you this month: A lovely lady rancher can’t wait to hightail it out of Texas—till she meets her handsome new foreman in Leanna Wilson’s Lone Star Rancher. A new husband can’t bear to tell his amnesiac bride that the baby she’s carrying isn’t his, in Her Forgotten Husband by Anne Ha. And one lucky cowboy discovers a night of passion has just made him a daddy in Teresa Southwick’s The Bachelor’s Baby.

I hope you enjoy all of June’s books!

Melissa Senate, Senior Editor

Silhouette Romance

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The Bachelor’s Baby

Teresa Southwick

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

To the woman I shared an airport shuttle with who

inspired this story. I hope you and your cowboy found

a happy ending.

TERESA SOUTHWICK

is a native Californian with ties to each coast, since she was conceived in the East and born in the West. Living with her husband of twenty-five years and two handsome sons, she is surrounded by heroes. Reading has been her passion since she was a girl. She couldn’t be more delighted that her dream of writing full-time has come true. Her favorite things include: holding a baby, the fragrance of jasmine, walks on the beach, the patter of rain on the roof and above all—happy endings.

Teresa also writes historical romance novels under the same name.