Her Husband's Christmas Bargain

Megan has been a single mother for a while now. In fact she's done everything in her power to keep it that way. Charlotte is a beautiful child who has never seen her father, Luigi Costanzo, one of the most powerful men in the country. It is Christmas time and Megan finds more than a scarf at the mall, she sees her long lost husband. Of course she hurries home and hopes beyond hope that he did not see her- no such luck. Luigi shows up at her home that very evening. It seems that she left him without telling him why or where she was going, and oops, that she was pregnant. He finds out anyways and mad isn't saying enough about how he feels. He was deceived by his own wife. How could she have done that?

Luigi strikes a bargain with Megan. Bring Charlotte and stay with me for the holidays. I want to get to know my daughter. When his first pleas go unanswered he threatens Megan and she caves. She will have her own room and so will Charlotte, but it this the best thing for either of them? Isn't that the very reason she left in the first place, so that he wouldn't become the father she knew he would be? And what about the fact that he wants his wife back in every way?

Readers will sympathize with Megan and her plight. They will slap the hero's hand one minute and smile at him the next. All of it comes down to the daughter, Charlotte. Margaret Mayo has done Harlequin proud. This is a soft romance like the Harlequins I remember as a young girl. It is part of the Presents line.