Mystery Heiress

Jessica Holmes had come to Minneapolis looking for a miracle.

Her sweet little girl's life was in jeopardy, and only a blood relative could help—only a Fortune. Five-year-old Annie was battling leukemia, and a yellowed family letter pointed to Benjamin Fortune as the grandfather Jessica never knew. Crossing the Atlantic was her desperate gamble to find a matching bone-marrow donor.

Amid all the skeptics who said she was after the Fortunes' money, just one man believed Jessica's story. Past corporate guards who dismissed her pleas as another swindle, she found an unexpected ally in the hospital corridors.

Haunted by the loss of his own eight-year-old son, Stephen had retreated into long hospital rounds and a solitary lakefront house. Beneath the quiet sorrow of his past, the guarded physician recognized a bond he could not walk away from.

Dr. Stephen Hunter vowed he would fight to save her precious daughter. But he hadn't counted on fighting his own feelings for this remarkable woman, whose beauty and spirit tempted his hardened heart….
Race Against Time: With Annie's temporary remission slipping away, Jessica and her allies scramble to locate a compatible donor before her fragile health fails.Slow Burn: Bound by medical ethics and physician-patient boundaries, Stephen tries to resist his feelings, but quiet moments at the lakeside cottage test his iron control.Second Chance: A painful divorce in the wake of tragedy had left Stephen shuttering his private life, convinced he was incapable of giving a woman the devotion she deserved.Emotional Healing: From comforting Annie with miniature plastic cowboys and stick-on bandages to watching over Jessica, a weary doctor learns to open his heart again.Also by This Author: Father by Marriage, Sweet Bride of Revenge and The Bride Price.