The Bequest

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Your mother could handle men better than anyone Ive ever met. She knew exactly what she was doing. You dont. "I can learn." "Can you?" He came at her with that lean-hipped walk she found so intimidatingly masculine. "What are you going to do the first time a man stalks up to you and puts his hand on you like this?" At his touch she went rigid and sucked in an audible gasp of air. "What if he backs you up against a wall?" He pinned her against the soft velvet of the door curtain. "You have made your point Mr. Hays. . . ." THE BEQUESTWhen Gabrielle Antoine arrives in the rough mining town the convent-bred beauty is shocked by the decadence she finds there--and stunned to learn she has just inherited a bordello from the mother she never knew. Worse her mothers business partner Jordan Hays--a rugged cynical loner--embodies everything Gabrielle fears . . . and