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But when William Montgomery finds her, a thrilling adventure begins &#8211; for little Billy, the lovesick boy who adored her, is now definitely a man, and still madly in love with her&#8230; <strong>Matchmakers<\/strong> &#8211; Wall Street investor Kane Taggert is fair game for matchmaking. When he reluctantly agrees to lead four urbane women on a western train ride, rugged Kane is about to a rocky connection with an outspoken New Yorker &#8211; and sparks fly the moment these city slickers saddle up! <strong>A Perfect Arrangement<\/strong> &#8211; Dorie Latham wants a husband &#8211; a plain, easygoing fellow, and not the handsomely heroic type like her sister Rowena married. With Rowena coming to Texas to find her a mate, Dorie needs to act fast &#8211; and after she accuses Cole Hunter of being an aging gunslinger and swaggering killer, she asks him to marry her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[23],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6802","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-fiction-d","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"shipping-taxable","11":"purchasable","12":"product-type-variable"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jude Devereux, The Invitation - Jayne&#039;s Secondhand Books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jaynesbooks.com\/?product=jude-devereux-the-invitation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jude Devereux, The Invitation - Jayne&#039;s Secondhand Books\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Three novellas in one volume:  The Invitation - Jackie O&#039;Neill, a beautiful daredevil pilot, has come home to Colorado, looking to settle down. 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