title: His Temporary Live-in Wife
author:  Susan Crosby 
description: Susan Crosby is a bestselling USA TODAY author of more than 35 romances and women's fiction novels for Harlequin. She was won the BOOKreviews Reviewers Choice Award twice as Best Silhouette Desire and many other major awards. She lives in Northern California but not too close to earthquake country.<br /><br />You can check out her website at www.susancrosby.com.
zlib_text: SUSAN CROSBY
  The Forbidden Twin
  
  One
  Early March
  John Harlan clutched a two-carat, brilliant-cut diamond engagement ring in
  one hand and a Glenfiddich on the rocks in the other, his third in the past
  hour. Cold had settled in his bones, his heart, his soul. It probably didn’t help
  that he hadn’t turned on the heat or even a lamp since night fell hours ago.
  Only the lights of New York City through his huge picture window
  illuminated his living room, making a hazy silhouette of the bottle of scotch
  on the coffee table. What more did he need to see than that, anyway?
  A few hours ago his fiancée—former fiancée—had gently placed the
  diamond ring in his palm. He hadn’t let go since.
  John had thought he knew and understood Summer Elliott. She was goal-
  oriented and orderly, like him, and together they were dynamic, a power
  couple with great lineage and an amazing future. At twenty-nine, he was at a
  perfect age for marriage, and at a perfect point in his career at his advertising
  agency. Every