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: _**“Don’t make this harder than it already is,” she whispered.**_
  
  Hurt seared Conall’s insides. “If you think I’m going to walk away from you
  without an explanation, you don’t know me very well. There’s not a snowball’s
  chance in hell, Bailey.”
  
  “I’ll explain.”
  
  “Damn right you will. You would have let me make love to you last night.”
  
  “Don’t you see? That’s exactly why we have to break up.”
  
  “How is the fact that we’re extremely sexually compatible a problem?”
  
  “I’m not a casual affair girl. I can’t make love to you and go our separate
  ways. And I can’t fight temptation any longer.”
  
   **Midnight Hero**
  
   **DIANA DUNCAN**
  
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   **Books by Diana Duncan**
  
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   _ **DIANA DUNCAN’S**_
  
  fascination with books started before she could walk, when her librarian
  grandmother toted her to work. Diana crafted her first tale at age four, a
  riveting account of Perky the Kitten, printed in orange c