Book excerpt: BESTSELLING AUTHOR The eagerly awaited spin-off to Fathers & Other Strangers! He's never met the woman he couldn't charm—until now! Jason Van der Bollen is—to put it bluntly—a womanizer. Dashing and delightful, yes. But still a womanizer. Lately, though, he's been thinking there's something missing in his life. Maybe that's why he moves back home to west Texas. After all, his brother's family is there…and the idea of family has suddenly become very appealing to the confirmed bachelor. His nephew claims Jason's been "bitten by that nesting impulse"—but what does an eleven-year-old know? Yet when Jason meets Laura Ghant, "nesting" or even "mating for life" doesn't seem such a bad idea. At least, not to Jason. Laura, on the other hand, wants nothing to do with him. Poetic justice?