Plans. Everyone has them. Rush Dalton and Tad Jackson plan to live happily ever after. January Stephens plans to ease the hurt of a declined marriage proposal with alcohol. Josh Cooper's plan is to conceal his feelings for Mopp. And Mopp? He simply plans to hold tight to Josh's friendship.<br><br>Meanwhile, Eric Jameson arrives from DC with plans of his own. He intends to elicit information from Jan in an effort to find Babe, the woman who’s taken refuge with her son at the big house called the ranch. Babe plans to stay away from anyone who might try to take her little boy away from her and return him to the mysterious Dr. Pandora Gautier.<br><br>Deuce Pettigrew’s only plan is to keep the man he treasures safe and in one piece.  But the thing about plans is -- sometimes they just don’t work out the way you expect them to

Mann of My Dreams Book 6: The Best-Laid Plans

Dr. Foster looked startled. “Of course not. Dr. Davis is in gastroenterology.”


“Okay.” Rush had made a fool of himself, and all he wanted to do was cry. Instead, he leaned the heel of his hand into his torso and pressed harder. “Okay.”


RUSH PUT HIS key in the lock, but he didn’t need to turn it. The door to his apartment over his parents’five-car garage swung open. Uncertain as to whether to enter and confront whoever was there or back down the stairs and notify the police there’d been a break-in, the option was taken from him when his mother spoke.


He sighed, regretting he hadn’t seized the opportunity to head for the hills. “Yes, Mother?”


He’d assumed his parents didn’t have a key to his apartment. Obviously he’d been wrong. The question was, had his mother used it before?


Chapter 9