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

But then that witch Babe—yeah, like that was her real name—she showed up with her brat of a son, and what did she do? She started insinuating herself into the family. JT was a sucker for what he called little lost lambs, and of course Mr. Jack would never say no to him. They made a big thing over the brat too, and as a way to repay their kindness—so she said—Babe would go with Mr. Jack to Home Depot whenever he needed something for the ranch, even though Billy Bob usually did that. 


To make things even worse, after all those trips to Home Depot, Babe set her sights on Jan’sman, making goo-goo eyes at him and calling him by that stupid nickname. 


Jan had given Billy Bob an ultimatum: marry her now, right now, or they were through. She’d dump his redneck ass.


And he’d said no! Okay, technically he’d said not now, but he wanted to wait until he graduated from college, and she wasn’t doing that again, no ma’am. As far as she was concerned, that was the same thing.


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