title: The Ruthless Marriage Proposal
author:  Miranda Lee 
description: After leaving her convent school, Miranda Lee briefly studied the cello before moving to Sydney, where she embraced the emerging world of computers. Her career as a programmer ended after she married, had three daughters and bought a small acreage in a semi-rural community. She yearned to find a creative career from which she could earn money. When her sister suggested writing romances, it seemed like a good idea. She could do it at home, and it might even be fun! She never looked back.
zlib_text: "YOU'RE	COMING	TO	SAN	ANTONIO	WITH	ME."
  Bess	looked	at	Jude	in	disbelief.	"I'm	what?"
  "You	heard	me."	He	set	down	his	cup.	"The	only	way	I	can	control	that	stock	is	by	marrying	you.	So
  that's	how	we'll	do	it."
  She	stared	at	him	uncomprehendingly.	It	was	so	like	Jude	to	take	the	direct	approach.
  "I've	waited	years	to	get	my	hands	on	those	shares,	and	I'm	having	them.	If	you	come	along	with	the
  deal,	I'll	just	have	to	make	the	best	of	it."
  "What	makes	you	think	you're	any	prize?	You're	cold	and	hard	and	don't	care	about	anybody	in	the
  world!"
  "That's	gospel,"	he	agreed.	"But	you'll	go	to	the	altar	with	me	if	I	have	to	tie	you	up	and	gag	you,
  except	for	the	part	where	you	say,	'1	do.'"
  "I	do	not,"	she	corrected.	"You	can't	force	me	to	marry	you."
  "Think	not?"
  DIANA	PALMER
  THE	RAWHIDE	MAN
  
  Chapter	One
  Thunder	was	crashing	wildly	outside	the	elegant	middle	Georgia	house,	but	the	poised	young	woman
  standing	in	the	parlor	was	too	numb	to	be	frightened	of	it.	The	ordeal	of	the	past	two	days	ha