Redeeming Rafe

It's easy to live in the moment while on the back of a bull, so professional rodeo cowboy Rafe Beauford seldom dwells on how his fear caused the fire that killed his parents and Camille-the baby sister who worshipped him. To the world, Rafe is a happy man who always has a joke and a smile but inside, he's dead serious about two things: fear cannot be tolerated and he'll never care about another child. But when a buckle bunny he knew back in Odessa dies in a motorcycle accident, Rafe is summoned for a paternity test and his jokes and smiles run out.

Since there's not much call for a Chaucer scholar in Beauford, Tennessee, widowed single mother Abigail Whitman doesn't have many earning options. She doesn't want to return to Boston with its cold weather and her domineering mother, but waiting tables isn't paying the bills. She's set to give up and leave when big blond Rafe Beauford rides into town with a set of twin babies who look just like him. He needs a nanny and he's willing to pay generously-and Abby and her son can live at the family plantation, Beauford Bend. But he has no plans to stick around and no inclination to bond with his girls. Determined to see Rafe give parenting a chance, Abby's agrees to take the job, provided that he stays home for a month.

There aren't any bulls at Beauford Bend to distract Rafe so he's living with fear every moment-fear of his secret baby girls, not to mention Abby's toddling son who seemed to love him on sight. Even worse, there's Abby with her classy ways and heart stealing eyes.

And that was just the first day. What's a cowboy to do?