STAND-IN MOM... The grapevine was smokin'! Wayward, once-pampered Amber Campion was back in Vanity, eatin' humble pie. Against all odds she was determined to turn over a new leaf. Seeing her true potential, rock-solid sheriff Cal Simmons had gone and hired the feisty beauty as live-in nanny to the two troubled wards he'd taken into his heart and home. With Amber's unique cookin' and carin' — a "wife" in all ways but one—the secretly lonely sheriff was soon utterly smitten. But some secret from her past kept Amber from finding her safe haven in Cal's tender embrace. Now the rugged lawman had some mighty powerful persuadin' to do—for he aimed to make Amber his bride!