Tina Leonard, The Christmas Twins

The Christmas Twins

Tina Leonard

Harlequin American, November 2006, $4.99

ISBN: 0373751419

In Tulip, Texas, Jessica Tomball Farnsworth and Zach Forrester meet and are instantly attracted to one another. Neither can resist what they feel for one another, and soon they make love as if there will be no tomorrow. Several mornings after, Jessica learns she is pregnant and will give birth to twins in the spring.

The Ladies of the Tulips Saloon see a chance to tie down the wild Zach, as they feel Jessica and the unborn twins are good for him, and for the town that needs the next generation if it is to survive. However, though he wants to give something back to the town, like building a new school, he does not want it to be a family, though he plans to do right by his offspring. Still, with a horde of matchmakers on the prowl, Zach has no chance to escape, unless an even more reluctant Jessica continues to object to marrying him.

THE CHRISTMAS TWINS is an amusing contemporary romance starring a likable couple, in which neither wants to get married, although the attraction is strong and the unborn quite a catalyst. The eccentric townsfolk, including his father, play matchmaker, tossing the lead pair together, while her parents have cardiac arrest when they learn their daughter is pregnant. Tina Leonard writes a lighthearted Texas tale, in which a band of wily matchmakers tiptoe through the Tulips of Texas.