Rebecca Haddock

Marriage of Convenience & Love to the Rescue Rebecca Haddock

Marriage of ConvenienceLauren's parents died in a car accident just before she turned 18. She has been on her own ever since. She is barely surviving, and her beauty has made her a target on the streets of Chicago. When tycoon Robert Stillwell has to take a wife before turning 30 in just a few months, he advertises for a wife. He doesn't want the emotional involvement. When he sees how beautiful Lauren in during her interview, but also the bruise in the shape of a handprint on her arm, he knows she is the right choice. He can provide her with protection, and not have to worry about a clingy wife. By marrying her, he has saved her. But he never counted on his attraction to her. To Lauren, it seems everything she does makes Robert angry. She never knows what she has done to make him angry, but she has to stay married to him for five years. Can they ever learn to get past the obstacles and turn their marriage of convenience into a real one?Love to the RescueWhen Brad is driving home at 3:00 in the morning from the club where he works security, he hears a woman's screams. He sees the two men fighting with the woman in a parking lot. Knowing he cannot just drive away, he rescues her. When she collapses in his arms, he has nowhere to take her but home with him. When Simone wakes up in a stranger's apartment with no idea how she got there, she is terrified until she realizes he saved her. A week later, she wakes up in his bed again with no recollection of how she got there. When Brad saw her in the club with two friends, he watched her, realizing a man slipped something into her drink. When she woke terrified of him, he knew he had to fix that. It turns out, they both rescue each other.