New York Times and USA Today bestseller Vicki Lewis Thompson believes love makes the world go around and laughter makes the trip worth taking. The recipient of RWA’s Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award and the author of more than ninety books, Vicki pioneered a new kind of romance hero with Nerd in Shining Armor. Following the success of her nerd stories, Vicki launched a boisterous paranormal series featuring a matchmaking witch and wizard, an ADD dragon named George, and a black cat inspired by her own precocious feline, Eve.
Three "short" stories by Thompson. "Manhunting in Montana" Photographer Cleo Griffen is famous for her hunky calendars. Frustrated, she decided to find a long-distance husband when she goes to Montana to do a cowboy calendar shoot. She doesn't count on falling in love and getting pregnant by rancher Tom McBride. "Bachelor Father". Katherine Seymour takes a 3 day vacation from her NY publishing job in Yellowstone. When ranger Zeke Lonetree pulls her out of a river and they make love, she becomes pregnant. A year later she goes back to introduce him to their daughter and the 3 fall in love all over again, but need to work out the distance/job thing. "Pure Temptation" is a steamy bedroom scene throughout - very sensuous. Tess Blakely has four big brothers and lives in small town AZ. She's 26, still a virgin and leaving for NYC in the fall to be a school counselor. Her summer project is to lose her virginity so she can better know the kids problems. She asks her best friend "Mac" MacDougal to help her - he eventually volunteers and they realize they've loved each other for years - finally.
All the stories averaged out to about a three star read for me. Enjoying Thompson's category writing style much more than I expected from her Nerds books.