title: The Coltons: The Trophy Wife
author: Sandra Steffen
description: "[Sandra Steffen] displays an emotional sensitivity that will haunt your heart for many a day to come." -- <i>Romantic Times Magazine</i>
zlib_text: The Trophy Wife
  Sandra Steffen
  Published by Silhouette Books
  America's Publisher of Contemporary Romance
  
  JOE COLTON'S JOURNAL
  My marriage is self-destructing before my eyes. How can the woman I've loved for a lifetime have changed so much? I
  hardly recognize her anymore. Good thing I have Tripp Calhoun's visit to lift my spirits. Who would have guessed that the
  troubled teenage gang banger who first showed up at the Hopechest Ranch would grow up to be a caring doctor? He's done us
  all proud. He's in Prosperino for business—and to attend the wedding of a former flame. Pride demands that he make an
  appearance, and he's sweet-talked my daughter, Amber, into being his trophy date. Those two are so good at "pretending" that
  the sizzling electricity they generate is powerful enough to heat up the entire Hacienda de Alegria Estate! Too bad the
  hardheaded Tripp isn't looking to settle down with a "pampered" Colton heiress. But come on, now. His true feelings are more
  transparent than Meredith