So what if Laurel Morgan hadn't had a date since the senior prom? If all it would take to convince her teenage sister to consider college was to go on a few dates and have some fun, it was a bet she could beat. And before she could change her mind, sexy forest ranger Michael Walker agreed to play the part of her ardent admirer!

Andrea O'Connor is fuming at the audacity of Ian Powers, the attractive father of one of her students. He offered to buy school equipment only if she agreed to train him for a marathon. Well, she'd train him, and not just in running. As a widower with a high-powered job, Ian needed instruction in being a father. Yet as this overbearing man opened up, Andrea started learning lessons--in loving.

I do, the bride and groom said... and without love they wed. Jonas Winslow knew nothing about fatherhood, yet he was determined to keep his orphaned nephew. But the boy's aunt, Robin Hampstead, wasn't about to let go of her only remaining family. The solution: a temporary - strictly platonic - marriage...or so they thought.