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“Are you lost, ma’am?” He sounded perfectly pleasant and polite, but she knew that his right hand, which looked as though it was resting on his hip and was partly concealed by his dark suit jacket, was likely gripping a gun. Her car wasn’t exactly a new, fully loaded model. He gestured for her to roll her window down and she complied, self-conscious of the crank handle that she had to use to perform the action. The guard, because that’s what he had to be, exited through a smaller pedestrian gate and walked toward her car, his expression grim. Was Max Rossi mafia or something? Who had security detail in the middle of nowhere in Washington State? Her eyes widened when she saw a man in a dark suit with security-issue sunglasses prowling the perimeter of the fence. But it was clear that he was way out of her league, both financially and otherwise.

She didn’t know a lot about this man, the father of her baby nothing really other than his name. The wrought-iron gates that partitioned the massive mansion from the rest of the world looked impenetrable.

Worse still when you were about to tell a man he was going to be a father.Īlison put her car in Park and took a deep breath, almost relieved to discover a roadblock in her path. Morning sickness was the pits, and it was even worse when it lasted all day. “Oh, please don’t rebel on me now.” Alison Whitman put her hand over her stomach and tried to quell the rising nausea that was threatening her with immediate action if she didn’t get a hold of some saltine crackers or a bottle of ginger ale. Christmas with a Billionaire – Snowed in with Her Boss.A Hunger For the Forbidden/The Highest Price to Pay 2-in-1.Repeating themes include: people-as-animals, people losing themselves and finding themselves (and sometimes wishing they hadn't), childhood in the psychedelic seventies, reality TV, marriage, twisted religion, and of course the gotta have 'em he-done-me wrongs. Nearly all of them have been published before individually, in numerous print and online magazines and anthologies.Tales vary from realistic to humorous to surreal, and family-friendly to adult. These fun-sized stories are just right for a coffee break, public commute, waiting room, bedtime story, or any other time you want a quick trip without leaving the farm, so to speak.The 100 stories in this quirky collection range from a few sentences to a few pages. These fun-sized stories are just right for a coffee break, public commute, waiting room, bedtime story, or any other time you want a quick trip without leaving the farm, so to speak.The 100 stories in this quirky collection range from a few sentences.