title: Just Stories: (That Really Happened)
author: Carole Balawender
description: Carole Balawender is a seeker and a traveler who loves life and embraces adventure. In her professional life, she has been an information engineer, a junior high school teacher, and a magazine reporter. In her volunteer life, she has worked with newborns, at-risk youth, and Special Olympians. A Michigan native, Carole lives in Colorado. This is her first book.
zlib_text: "I can’t get to sleep," Dizzy said wearily
  She was down in Zach’s kitchen in the middle of the night heating
  some milk when Zach came upon her.
  "Possibly," he said in frosty disapproval, "it’s the unusual occurrence
  of your sleeping alone that's causing the disturbance."
  If he didn’t so obviously mean every word he said, it might have been
  funny. But in fact she was the original virgin, hadn't even been kissed
  properly in her twenty-one years.
  "You're probably right," she snapped, "perhaps you would like to
  rectify that?"
  His mouth twisted. "I don’t believe so, thank  you," he said with clear
  distaste.
  "Why not? Aren’t l good enough for you?”
  "I'm sure you are," he drawled, and there was something in his eyes
  that belied his next words. "Fortunately I'm not attracted to
  overexperienced children!"
  
  One Chance at Love
  Carole Mortimer
  
  For, John Matthew and Joshua
  Harlequin Presents first edition October 1988 
  ISBN 0-373-11117-7
  Original hardcover edition published in 1988 
  by Mills & Boo