The birth mother

the long version

Bryan's niece. Jennifer's daughter. He knows it. She doesn't. Dashing ladies' man, brilliant entrepreneur and bachelor uncle, Bryan Chambers is now a bachelor father. That's because suddenly--tragically--he's the only remaining family his eleven-year-old niece, Nicki, has. And obviously he's not doing a good enough job of surrogate fathering, as Nicki simply isn't getting over her parents' deaths. There's only one thing that interests Nicki these days and that's finding the woman who gave her away eleven years before. Her birth mother. /> Desperate to help his niece, Bryan tracks down Jennifer Teal, Nicki's birth mother. She's twenty-seven--beautiful, successful and unmarried. But there's a hitch. Or two. The first hitch? She doesn't seem to like kids. The second? Bryan's falling in love with her.