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    His Inconvenient Bride (BBW Western Romance – Millionaire Cowboys 4): Millionaire Cowboys, #4
    His Inconvenient Bride (BBW Western Romance – Millionaire Cowboys 4): Millionaire Cowboys, #4
    His Inconvenient Bride (BBW Western Romance – Millionaire Cowboys 4): Millionaire Cowboys, #4
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    His Inconvenient Bride (BBW Western Romance – Millionaire Cowboys 4): Millionaire Cowboys, #4

    By Jenn Roseton

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    Stuck with babysitting duties, sexy rancher Chance Coltson is at his wits’ end when his six-month old niece won’t stop crying. In desperation, he drives to the library to seek help.

    Robin Hawley, the curvy librarian, is more than happy to assist. She’s never met a man like Chance, and wants to discover more about him.

    When she’s harassed by a male patron who won’t take no for an answer, Chance comes to her rescue, claiming Robin is his fiancée.

    Soon, the members of the library board hear about her engagement, and Robin and Chance are forced to maintain their charade.

    But will their engagement ever become real? Robin is in danger of losing her heart to the attractive rancher, but has no idea how he feels about her. Is her figure a deal-breaker? Or can he love her, curves and all?

    This is contemporary romance novella of approximately 35,000 words and can be read as a stand-alone.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJenn Roseton
    Release dateApr 20, 2016
    ISBN9781536502350
    His Inconvenient Bride (BBW Western Romance – Millionaire Cowboys 4): Millionaire Cowboys, #4

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      His Inconvenient Bride (BBW Western Romance – Millionaire Cowboys 4) - Jenn Roseton

      CHAPTER 1

      Six-month old Emily Coltson took one look at her uncle, Chance Coltson, and opened her rosebud mouth.

      Wahhhh!

      Shh, shh. Don’t cry. Please. Chance picked up his niece from the carrycot and winced as her next scream threatened to shatter his eardrum.

      He jiggled her from side to side as he remembered his sister-in-law Heather doing, but it didn’t work.

      Hell.

      There was no one he could call on for help, either. For this weekend, he was the only Coltson brother on the Montana ranch. Gage had whisked Heather away for a three-day vacation – the first break they’d had since the baby was born – the reason he was babysitting. Zach and his wife Megan had gone to visit her parents in Missoula, to tell them the news that she was pregnant. Ford and Summer were in Anguilla on their honeymoon. Mack was at a ranching seminar, and Rem was at college, already studying for some big important exam Chance couldn’t remember the name of.

      That left him holding the baby – and looking after Gage and Heather’s Goldmation, Charlie. Zach and Megan had taken their dog Toby with them on their weekend trip.

      Wahhhhh! Emily’s cries sounded even more desperate.

      Please stop, Chance said urgently. How did parents do it? Although he had five brothers, he was one of the middle ones and only had vague memories of Rem as a baby. But he was sure his youngest sibling had never screamed like his niece.

      He didn’t understand it. Heather had fed and changed the baby before she left, fussing over the bundle in her arms before reluctantly giving her to Chance. He’d assured her and his brother Gage he’d take good care of her, thinking it would be easy. All he had to do was give her a bottle or open a tiny jar of organic apricot or pumpkin puree, and change her nappy occasionally.

      Whenever he visited Gage and Heather, his niece had always gurgled and cooed at him, beaming at him with a gummy smile. That’s why he thought looking after her for three days would be a piece of cake.

      He held the baby close to his chest with one hand, while with the other, he dug out his phone from the pocket of his jeans. Thumbing through his list of contacts, he paused at Gage’s name. He could always call his sister-in-law and ask her what to do.

      But they’d only left two hours ago.

      There was no way he was going to admit defeat yet. Besides, Gage had seemed pleased and proud of the fact that he’d persuaded Heather to go away for three days to a luxury hotel in Billings without the baby. According to his brother, she’d wanted to leave Emily with her parents, but months ago they’d booked a two-week cruise to Hawaii, so that wasn’t an option.

      So his sister-in-law had finally agreed to let Chance look after her baby – as long as she wasn’t too far from home, just in case her daughter needed her.

      Billings was only fifty minutes away.

      Chance scowled at the phone and stabbed the button to bring up the Internet browser. Surely he could find some information online?

      Little Emily paused in her wails, her face creased and red, as if she was contemplating another shriek of distress.

      It’s okay, sweetheart, Chance said, jiggling her once more. Shh. Uncle Chance is going to take good care of you.

      His niece looked up at him, a little frown on her forehead as if she didn’t know whether to believe him or not.

      You like it when I visit you and your mom and dad, he said as persuasively as he could. You always seem happy to see me. He suddenly wondered if all the times Emily had smiled at him had been the product of gas, as his brothers had ribbed him. But Chance had always maintained that Emily knew him and that he was her favorite uncle.

      Now he wasn’t so sure.

      No Service.

      Those two chilling words stared up at him from the phone screen.

      Damn.

      His cell phone signal was down, which meant no Internet, which meant no trying a search engine to see if he could find out how to stop his niece from crying.

      His gaze flickered to the landline on the kitchen counter. At least he could still use that, but who could he call? He wasn’t going to admit defeat and phone Gage and Heather – yet.

      Wahhhh!

      As if sensing his mounting panic, Emily screamed again.

      In desperation he made a funny face at her, but it only made her wail louder.

      He felt her diaper. Dry. Maybe she was hungry?

      Chance warmed up one of the many prepared bottles Heather had left and offered it to the baby. She practically knocked it out of his hand, scowling. And crying.

      He walked over to the window, holding Emily up so she could look outside at the lush green pasture dotted by black cows. It didn’t seem to stop her shrieks.

      Charlie the Goldmation ran around the front garden. He’d been inside the house with them, but when the baby had started wailing, he’d run outside. Chance wished he could join the canine.

      When their parents had died eight years ago, leaving the ranch equally to him and his brothers, they had each built their own house. Gage and Heather lived in the original farmhouse, and Zach and Megan in their grandfather’s old cabin which Zach had remodeled for his and Megan’s future family.

      Ford, himself, Mack, and Rem had their own houses on the ranch – each of them pitching in and helping out. Heather had invited Chance to stay at the farmhouse while they were away, but he knew he’d feel weird living there again when it was obviously his brother and sister-in-law’s house now, so he’d suggested that he babysit at his house. He hadn’t realized until the last minute, when Gage had handed him all the baby stuff, how sensible Heather’s suggestion had been. Now his niece’s clothes, bottles, food, toys and essential things were strewn all over his living room.

      He scowled at the phone screen again. Still no signal.

      What was he going to do?

      Emily hiccupped, then cried again. Great big tears, as if her world was ending.

      He felt like crying too.

      If he called Gage now on the landline, he knew he’d never hear the last of it from his brothers. They’d tease him mercilessly.

      The answer to nearly anything can be found at the library.

      Chance frowned. Where had that thought come from? Racking his brains, he vaguely remembered Rem saying that once when he was a kid, before the Internet had been as popular as it was now. Rem had loved going to the local library, while Chance didn’t see the appeal at all. He’d preferred running around outside, getting dirty, not sitting down and reading a book. Still did.

      But ...

      Maybe he could drive to the library. Didn’t babies like car rides? Maybe the drive to Spring River Bend would calm down his niece, and give his eardrums a break.

      And maybe, he’d find a baby book with instructions for crying babies.

      Come on, Emily. Chance put her gently in her carrycot and walked out the door. We’re going to the library.

      CHAPTER 2

      Robin Hawley stood behind the library counter and surveyed the neat shelves of books with a smile. She’d just started her new job as head librarian of the Spring River Bend Library.

      She’d always known she wanted to be a librarian, ever since receiving her first library card at the age of five. Growing up, whenever she visited the library and saw a book that had been shelved incorrectly, she couldn’t help herself; she had to place the book in the correct space on the shelf, and make sure all the books on that shelf were tidy and didn’t stick out.

      And now, at age twenty-six, she had her very own library.

      Of course, it wasn’t hers, but right now it felt that way. She’d been working at the public library in Billings when she’d applied for the job here. To her, it was a big promotion, although the Spring River Bend library was pretty small compared to Billings.

      She looked at the white plastic clock on the oatmeal-colored wall – 1.25 p.m. Thirty minutes until closing time. The morning had been busy – Saturday mornings usually were –with schoolkids coming in begging for books on geology or famous inventions, having left their school assignment until the last possible moment.

      Regular patrons visited on Saturdays too, usually not getting a chance during the week while they were at the office. But it had been quiet for the last hour, giving her a chance to mark off returned books and place them back on the shelves.

      The assistant librarian, who worked part-time, had been off sick for the last week, which meant Robin had a higher workload. 

      Wahhh! A baby’s piercing cry split the air. Wahh-huh-huh-wahhh!

      Robin winced as the sound grew louder.

      A tall, muscular man in his late twenties with dark brown hair strode into the library, holding a carrycot, the noisy baby beating its fists inside the pink cocoon.

      The man’s jeans, gray long-sleeved shirt, and boots pegged him as a local.

      I need help. He placed the baby on the counter, desperation written on his handsome face. Please.

      Shhh, Robin murmured to the baby, who kicked its legs in the air, screaming at the same time.

      I tried that. It didn’t work.

      She frowned at him. Are you her – his – father?

      His eyes widened comically. "What? No, I’m her uncle. I’m looking after her for a few days while her parents take a break, and now I know why they need one." He flinched as his niece screamed again.

      May I? Robin gestured to the carrycot.

      Be my guest, he said grimly. But don’t sue me if she shatters your eardrums, too.

      She lifted the baby out of the carrier. Shhh, little one, it’s okay. Rocking the baby in a two-step jiggle, she stroked the baby’s light covering of chestnut hair, then felt the diaper.

      I don’t think she needs to be changed.

      I checked before I came here, he said tersely. And I offered her a bottle but she didn’t want it.

      She raised her eyebrow at his tone, but gave him some slack because he seemed so stressed. Good-looking, but stressed.

      The baby hiccupped, then gradually

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