Wedding Auction Series

This book was originally published in 2000 as Simon Says...Marry Me! by Myrna Mackenzie. Simon Cantrell came to the charity auction to find a woman willing to take part in a very brief masquerade to help him gently evade his aunt's matchmaking plans. But that woman has to be just the right type, someone born to say no. Emily Cantrell, a schoolteacher who looks as if her backbone is made of steel, is just the ticket. She's the one he wants. And the beauty of the whole thing is, Emily's skills are for hire. Too bad Emily has needs of her own, and chief on her list of needs is steering clear of handsome men who make a woman's heart beat faster. She hadn't really wanted to volunteer for the auction, and only the fact that the charity is for a good cause keeps her from running off the stage. But when Simon looks her way, and the bidding begins, she knows that she's made a major mistake. This summer job is going to rob her of her peace of mind if she lets Simon get under her skin. She just can't let that happen, and she won't…she hopes.

This book was originally published in 2000 by Myrna Mackenzie as At the Billionaire's Bidding A charity auction had seemed like such a good cause until Caroline O'Donald found herself for sale on the stage being sold to a man who was everything she wanted to avoid. Caroline no longer believed in happily ever afters. She didn't want to even think about the topic of love. But Gideon Tremayne, her new employer, is the kind of man who turned even reluctant dreamers into women who considered diving into temptation. She's dreading the next few weeks and counting the days until she can go back to her dull, safe little life. But she's also spending too much time waking up from dreams of Gideon. This summer is turning into a total disaster. Gideon thought that Caroline was just what the doctor ordered. He needed an organizer, a hostess and someone who could help him convince his matchmaking sister that she didn't need to bother setting him up. He has no interest in marriage and no time to waste on love, but he also doesn't want to hurt his sister who has suffered some serious setbacks in life lately. He needs someone with a delicate touch, someone like Caroline. And just as soon as Caroline helps him get his house in order and his sister back home, he'll be able to get back to the one thing he concentrates on: his business. Too bad he seems to have made a serious miscalculation. Because every time Caroline walks into a room, business is the last thing he finds himself concentrating on…

This book was originally published in 2000 by Myrna Mackenzie as Contractually His. The employee auction was for charity. Love wasn't part of the plan…until it was. Rebecca Linden knows that she's in trouble when Logan Brewster shows up at the charity auction and hires her to help him open his tenth and most luxurious hotel. Logan is temptation personified, and she'd given up on temptation long ago. What's more, Logan is a wealthy and sophisticated man while she is strictly milk and cookies. What she wants out of life—the simple pleasures of the home and family she's been denied for so long—are exactly the kinds of things a man like Logan has no desire for. If she had her way, she would turn this job down, turn her back on Logan and all that temptation and never look back. But this auction will help desperately needy children, so that isn't an option. The best she can hope for is to keep her head down, do her job and do her best to ignore this compelling man until she can make her escape in a few weeks. Logan hadn't planned on attending the auction. He had his employees for the new hotel all lined up. But then his assistant (and lover—a woman he'd considered for a marriage of convenience) deserted him. He hired Rebecca merely with the hope that she could be trained quickly and transformed into an assistant capable of handling his born-to-wealth clientele. What he got was so much more than he bargained for. As a man who had clawed his way up from the mean streets without love or the aid of anyone but himself, he eschews love and family. Business is everything to him. A woman like Rebecca who wants a family more than anything shouldn't appeal to him at all. Indeed, getting to close to her could only be disastrous to both of them. So why is he having so much trouble maintaining a strictly business attitude toward her? The end of this employee experiment can't come too soon. Any longer and someone is bound to get hurt…