The Game Show Bride

If you're wondering what happened with Stephen and Catherine Danbury from Her Stand-In Groom, you can visit with these characters again in The Game Show Bride, my December 2004 Harlequin Romance. This book also takes place in Chicago. New Vice President Sam Maxwell has stepped in to run the Danbury Department Store chain while Stephen is taking a leave to dote on his wife and their new baby. But if Sam thinks running one of the nation's oldest retail businesses is a challenge, he's in for a real surprise when he meets single mom Kelli Walters. Thanks to a reality TV show that promises heaps of free publicity for the foundering chain, Sam agrees to swap lives and jobs with Kelli. While she's sitting in his big office calling the shots, he's scraping by in her tedious warehouse job. Kelli sees the show as a way to improve the future for her and her two young daughters. But when Sam ups the stakes with his heart-stopping smiles and smoldering glances, she realizes that winning it all may not have anything to do with winning the show.