Hank Collins was strong, sensitive, handsome--and a carpenter. Construction supervisor Catherine McGillis thought the whole package was terrific. Her family disagreed. Their "baby" should marry a man with more prospects--starchy white-collar prospects. The icy disapproval of Cat's protective parents and four brawny brothers was nearly enough to chill any heated longings.
But Hank was a man whose passions burned hot, and he loved the sexy, sensual woman he found beneath capable Cat's coveralls. Still, he had to wonder about the McGillis clan's ambitions for Cat, and her ambitions for herself. In her own way, she was very much a lady--and he was just a carpenter.... Would she marry him anyway?
Jo Ann Hudson was born on 27 August 1942. She married Henry C. Algermissen, and they had two children, Henry "Hank" Algermissen and Jayne Algermissen. She was educator during years.
She wrote as Anna Hudson and as Jo Ann Algermissen over 40 romance novels from 1983 to 1998. She has won three Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Awards, for her novels I Do?, Marry-Me Christmas, and A Husband for Christmas, and has been nominated for a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award. She passed away on 20 November 2009 in Texas, USA.