Betina Krahn's Library
Novels
The Book of True Desires
The Book of the Seven Delights
Not
Quite Married
The
Marriage Test
The
Wife Test
The
Husband Test
Sweet
Talking Man
The
Soft Touch
The
Mermaid
The
Unlikely Angel
The
Perfect Mistress
The
Last Bachelor
The
Princess & the Barbarian
The Enchantment
My Warrior's Heart
Behind
Closed Doors
Caught
in the Act
Luck
Be a Lady
Midnight
Magic
Just
Say Yes
Passion's
Treasure
Passion's
Ransom
The
Paradise Bargain
Love's
Brazen Fire
Hidden
Fires
Rebel
Passion
Passion's
Storm
Rapture's
Ransom
Short Stories
Stardust
A Victorian Christmas
Avon Books Presents:
Haunting Love Stories
Avon Books Presents:
Christmas Romance
|
July 1999
Bantam Books |
THE
SOFT
TOUCH
A SOFTHEARTED BALTIMORE HEIRESS
Lovely but disastrously tenderhearted Diamond Wingate has terrible trouble saying "No": to the poor and unfortunate who
beg at her gates; to entrepreneurs with big plans and no money; and worse, to the silver-tongued young men who line up
to propose marriage. So far she has managed to keep her three fiancés a secret, insisting she cannot marry until she turns
twenty-three. But her birthday--and disaster--are looming....
A HARDHEADED WESTERNER
Rugged, independent "Bear" McQuaid has never taken a dime he didn't earn by his own hard work. But now his dream
of building a railroad, so close to coming true, is about to collapse from lack of funds. Approaching Baltimore's infamous
"soft touch," he learns she has other assets as well: a delicate, strawberry blond beauty and shining intelligence--and a
fascination for the romance of the railroad. Then Bear uncovers Diamond's embarrassment of riches in fiancés as well as
money and charms. Now he must make a choice: finance his dream through a little genteel blackmail, or do it the hard
way...by falling in love.
|
