Bargained Vows

by Allison Knight

Victoria Harlow dedicates her life to building a childcare center for underprivileged families, but her Aunt's will destroys it all if Tory doesn't marry.

Widower Sam Benson needs money to prevent his in-laws from taking his only son. Tory and Sam marry for convenience. Tory pays Sam, and Sam returns to his ranch in Colorado. The sparks fly when they discover they must live together for a year to legalize the marriage.

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First published January 1, 2003

About the author

In junior high she decided she wanted to write, so in seventh grade she wrote poetry. In eighth grade she started writing prose; in high school, short stories, in college, she authored a newspaper column. After college, she continued to write. While teaching Home Economics, she even started a cookbook. Her husband claims it was a good thing it never saw the light of day.

When she started teaching, she met and fell in love with her very own hero. They married and started a family. As her children grew, she entertained them with stories, some real and some not so real. When she found a spare minute or two, she read. She still continued to teach and more than once her classroom, full of inquiring minds, had a teacher who'd had very little sleep the night before because she'd read into the wee hours of the morning. (She claims she has no self-discipline when it came to a good book!)

After she discovered historical romance, and found things missing in the current book she was reading, she decided she had to write her own romance. Full of enthusiasm, she pulled out her portable typewriter, (computers were not yet a common household item), a package of paper and began- - -

THE GREAT AMERICAN ROMANCE!

Her daughter asked what she was doing.
"I'm writing a book," Allison said.
"Oh yea, Mom! When cows fly!!!!"
When her first book sold, she came home from her teaching assignment to find a stuffed cow, with added wings sailing around the family room tied to the ceiling fan. Of course she had to dedicate the book to her children exhorting them to look up!

Today Allison has seventeen romances to her credit and she is busy working on more historical romances, including a good old-fashion gothic. She speaks at conferences, and delights in sharing her love of the romance genre with anyone interested in talking about books.