Jacob's Girls / A Father's Place

Jacob's Girls by Tara Taylor QuinnJacob Ryan has trouble in triplicate! Seven-year-old Allie is organizing her teacher to death. Seven-year-old Jessie is crying in class. Seven-year-old Meggie is becoming almost reclusive. Jacob is told that what the girls need is a women in their lives - and maybe they do. But the last thing Jacob needs is to exchange girl trouble for...women trouble!Jacob's gone that route before. All it did was get his daughters' hopes up - his hopes up - and then the lady left. Maybe the answer to enlist the help of a friend, someone like his partner, Michelle... Big trouble. Unfortunately, what Jacob begins to feel for Michelle isn't just friendship - it's love and anger, desire and frustration. Because, while Michelle's willing to be surrogate mother to Jacob's children, she's resisting the idea of being a wife to him.A Father's Place by Joan KilbyA man with a child needs a home....Daniel had a young daughter with the flu and no place to live after flying to Vancouver from Australia. He thought he'd rented rooms from Karina, but Karina thought otherwise.A woman with a problem needs her space....After a personal crisis, Karina had found that she was happiest living on her own, creating whimsical papier-mache creatures and filling her house with music and friends. She was not hiding from her fears - or so she told herself.A lonely child needs a family....Karina couldn't say no to a sick child, though, and soon Daniel and Natalie had made their own place in her chaotic household and her heart.