Crossed Hearts

The first novel in beloved bestselling author Barbara Delinsky’s classic Matchmaker trilogy about a woman who makes up crossword puzzles for a living—and a man who just might be the answer to L-O-V-E in her life…Originally published in 1987, now available as an e-book for the first time.

Leah Gates always enjoys a good challenge—with words or otherwise. Still, she should have known better than to leave New York City for this. Knee-deep mud, lashing rain, a burned-down cabin…so much for the R&R that she hoped to find in rural New Hampshire. What had her friend Victoria Lesser been thinking?

Woodsman Garrick Rodenheiser was stunned and wary when Leah turned up shivering on his porch. A beautiful woman, miles from nowhere, spelled trouble for him. But he couldn’t just slam the door in her face—or shut out the storm of passion that raged between them…

Originally published as Twelve Across.