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Candy Kisses (Romance on the Ranch #4) [Kindle Edition]
Verna Clay (Author)


http://www.amazon.com/Candy-Kisses-R...154606011_f_88

This is the fourth book in the Romance on the Ranch Series, but can be read as a stand alone. This is chic lit.

Order of books:
Dream Kisses, Honey Kisses, Baby Kisses, and Candy Kisses.

Sweet/Sensual Romance with some profanity

Dirk Branigan's latest bull riding competition has left him flat on his back with a busted leg. After meeting his new "domestic help," he decides Sage Tanner and Miles Brightman, close friends who talked him into hiring the woman because she's destitute and pregnant, are going to owe him big time. His new employee is spoiled, temperamental, frustrating, and yes, occasionally, endearing. Thankfully, his daughter Tessa takes to her immediately. As for Dirk, his heart urges him to discover the woman behind the facade.

Excerpt:

Monica smoothed a hand down the front of her Armani suit jacket and swallowed back the nausea that had become her constant companion. Now, in addition to nausea, she was nervous about leaving New York for the Wild West--specifically, Colorado. Surely, pregnancy had made her lose her rational mind. No. It's called desperation.

When Miles had called and said he'd found her a job and a place to live for a few months, she'd been overjoyed. That is until he'd told her what and where it was. Housekeeper and cook! And caregiver to a ten year old! In Colorado!

At first she'd refused. But later that day she'd received her final eviction notice. In ten days she would be on the streets of New York. After the eviction notice, she'd stressed her way through balancing her pitiful checking account and cried the whole time. All that was standing between her and utter destitution was three thousand dollars. Struggling to suppress sobs she had called Miles' back and said she'd had a change of heart.

Now, with her plane descending into Denver International, she was faced with the reality of her plight. She was domestic help. That thought alone made her even more nauseous.

After the pilot announced twice that they were circling before landing, her nerves twisted to the breaking point. When they finally did land she watched the first class passengers debark and felt the green monster of envy. The fact that she was traveling coach class with a teenage girl on one side of her and an adolescent one on the other, both of whom had to be related to Chatty Cathy dolls, hadn't improved her frame of mind or doubts about raising a child. Surely she was crazed to go through with this pregnancy. Tears welled and she blinked rapidly to stop them. The little girl next to her tapped her arm and said, "You sure are pretty." Monica swallowed her tears and replied, "Thank you. I needed to hear that".