title: Colton's Secret Son (The Coltons of Shadow Creek)
author:  Carla Cassidy 
description: Carla Cassidy is a <em>New York Times </em>bestsellingauthor who has written more than 125 novels for Harlequin Books. She is listed on the Romance Writer's of America Honor Roll and has won numerous awards. Carla believes the only thing better than curling up with a good book to read is sitting down at the computer with a good story to write.
zlib_text: Catch up with the crime-fighting Coltons!
  Witnessing a murder plunges Nina Owens into nerve-shattering danger. Police chief Flint Colton
  is sure the perp is taking down witnesses, so the handsome cop orders Nina into protective
  custody…in his home! And while she’s grateful to him, Nina just can’t shake her deep distrust of
  police. But all that falls away when Flint’s scintillating kiss awakens something deep within her.
  As Thanksgiving approaches with Dead River quarantined, the search for a missing child puts
  Nina and the killer on a collision course. She knows Flint is haunted by a past failure to save a
  witness…and that he’ll put himself in the line of fire before he ever lets her down.
  
  Pink panties.
  Hot-pink panties.
  He’d gone into the store on high alert, hovering near Nina and watching to make sure that
  nobody else got close to her.
  What he hadn’t realized was that shopping with a woman could be such an intimate experience.
  He’d been fine as she’d grabbed several T-shirts and sw