Brenda St John Brown

Rival Hearts Brenda St John Brown

Britain's most-eligible bachelor has met the girl of his dreams. Too bad he's her worst nightmare. Stefan Cane has snogged and shagged his fair share of gorgeous women. Yet he's spent the last three months trying to forget the woman he shared a fleeting kiss with at the Jingle Ball last year. Now he's back in the tiny English village, staying across the street from her pub, The Blue Dog. The same pub he's about to put out of business. Possibly. Probably. According to his endless spreadsheets, bloody definitely. That's not the goal of the pub renovation reality show he produces, but the truth is, his job depends on him getting his project done, on time and on budget. Even though the village isn't big enough to sustain two pubs and Stefan knows it. Lucy Maclaren knows it, too. She told him that at the Jingle Ball. Right before that kiss he hasn't been able to forget. The one he desperately wants to repeat. How is he supposed to do his job when he's more worried about his so-called rival? Worse, how is he ever going to win her heart when the only thing she wants to see is his backside leaving town - preferably as soon as possible?