Substitute Wife

by Anne Marie Winston

A CONVENIENT MARRIAGE To a widower raising two growing kids alone, it seemed the perfect arrangement. Tom Hayes had always admired his next-door neighbor, and he knew she was having a hard time herself. So why shouldn't they get married? It would be strictly business, after all. Tannis Carlson thought maybe this marriage of convenience was the answer for a lonely divorcee struggling with a backbreaking mortgage. Friendship, affection, a readymade family--and none of the dangers of falling in love. But she hadn't been this man's substitute wife very long before she was dreaming of being the real thing ....

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