Tempting

The frigid-hearted matriarch of the Buchanan clan has just told Dani that she's not really one of them since she's the result of her mother's illicit affair. Dani's search for her biological father leads her to Senator Mark Canfield, a candidate for president of the United States. Alex Canfield is the oldest of Mark and Katherine's large, adopted brood. As the senator's loyal, right-hand man, Alex is suspicious about the feisty woman who claims to be his father's daughter, and the media has a field day with news of a surprise love child. Mark naively believes that his warm, loving wife will readily accept his newfound daughter, unaware of the depth of her insecurities about not being able to bear a child. Alex and Dani find themselves drawn to each other as their constant bantering becomes verbal foreplay, but his ex-wife wants him back. Life in the public eye, old wounds, and family relations are all skillfully examined in this latest offering in Mallery's popular Buchanan family series (Delicious, 2006; Irresistible, 2006; Sizzling, 2007). At turns witty and poignant, this hard-to-put-down book will appeal to a broad spectrum of readers.