First things first: I'm the bad twin. While my sister, Marcia, has the perfect family in the perfect suburb, l've been making my living as an Internet advice columnist and designing Web sites in my downtown loft. I always thought I had the right answer-and hair color-for any occasion. That is, until Marcia ran up loads of debt and ran out on her husband and kids, and I was left helping to pick to pick up the pieces.

Her husband, James, is a lawyer who l hate on principle alone. But for a guy who's just lost his his job, his marriage, and his expensive toys, he's keeping it together-and making me rethink my feelings toward him. It's not htat he's traded in his conservative suits for sexy jeans. It's that he's that he's not giving up what's important to him, and oh baby, I'm a sucker for a guy who hangs tough.

That doesn't mean I'm ready to step into Marcia's designer shoes now that she's gone AWOL. And it doesn't mean I'M going to fall James's easy charm…not again, anyhow. Besides, I've had a lifelong policy of not being mistaken for my twin and I'm not backing down on that one

Now-no matter how convenient it might be for a certain sexy (and persuasive) man…

 

A confessed romantic dreamer, USA Today bestselling author Claire Cross has always woven stories in her mind. Since sell-ing her first book in 1992, she has written more than twenty ro- mances. Winner of the Colorado Romance Writers' Award of Excellence and nominee for the Romantic Times' Career Achieve-ment in Medieval Romance award, she has more than two million books in print. She also writes medieval romances under the name Claire Delacroix for Warner Books. She lives in Canada with her husband. Visit her website at www.delacroix.net .