Top Gun Dad (Men Made in America, 60)

Lieutenant Colonel Chad Cassavetes has just been promoted…to the rank of single father. With his two daughters in tow, the daredevil fighter pilot is trading the open skies for the dusty plains of Oklahoma. But when his trailer breaks down, Chad doesn't expect to be rescued by an angel in pink cowboy boots.

With her riot of red curls and roots deep in Okie soil, Kelbie Montgomery isn't your ordinary savior. She's also a single mom who's sworn off military men. Until Chad starts changing her mind…

Falling for the feet-on-the-ground widow is risky business for a man whose heart has always been in the skies. But Kelbie and her daughter are tempting Chad and his two girls to combine forces. Because he has a new mission. To make Kelbie fall in love with a certain top-gun dad.

Envision a job where you canhave conversations with imaginary friends while creating castles in the sky--notto mention, always having a happy ending. That's my life as a feel-good author.I infuse humor into my stories of romance, small town quirkiness, familyrelationships and otherworldly situations. I've published eleven novels and onenovella with various Harlequin imprints--HQ American, Everlasting and Carina. Mydebut book, A Texas State of Mind was a double finalist in the national RomanceWriters of America's prestigious RITA contest and a Romantic Times nominee forBest First Series Book. In addition, Summer After Summer (2007) won thenational Book Buyers' Best Long Contemporary award.
 
I'm now venturing into thegenre of Southern Fiction with a magical twist. Believe is my first visit tothat mystical place where the surreal becomes reality. This book won theReaders' Favorite Gold Medal for Fiction in Magic and Wizardry and theChanticleer Somerset Book Award for Women's Fiction. My second book in theIrish Enchantment Series, When the Magnolia Blooms, is a "ghostly" love storythat was a Finalist in the Book Excellence. It's a sexier version of theclassic The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.