Table Of ContentLetter to Reader
Title Page
Books by Terese Ramin
About the Author
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Prelude
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Postlude
Copyright
Kate suddenly realized that until Hank Mathison had set foot on her
farm, she hadn’t known she could feel like this. Alone. Lost. Alive.
Blossoming.
She’d always known she was a woman, but until Hank Mathison she’d
never known what it was like to feel like a woman. To want to be a woman, in
every sense of the word.
Intensely.
To need to understand the physical subtleties of her body, to covet a
knowledge she didn’t possess.
Unconditionally.
To quite simply and emphatically crave Hank and everything he was,
everything he would be.
Passionately, unequivocally, irrevocably.
To understand that for more than thirty-five years she’d been missing a
piece of herself that she hadn’t even realized existed, and that piece had a name
—and its name was Hank....
Dear Reader,
I hope you’ve got a few days to yourself for this month’s wonderful books.
We start off with Terese Ramin’s An Unexpected Addition. The “extra” in this
Intimate Moments Extra title is the cast of characters—lots and lots of kids—and
the heroine’s point of view once she finds herself pregnant by the irresistible
hero. The ending, as always, is a happy one—but the ride takes some unexpected
twists and turns I think you’ll enjoy.
Paula Detmer Riggs brings her MATERNITY ROW miniseries over from
Desire in Mommy By Surprise. This reunion romance—featuring a pregnant
heroine, of course—is going to warm your heart and leave you with a smile.
Cathryn Clare is back with A Marriage To Remember. Hero and ex-cop Nick
Ryder has amnesia and has forgotten everything—though how he could have
forgotten his gorgeous wife is only part of the mystery he has to solve. In
Reckless, Ruth Wind’s THE LAST ROUNDUP trilogy continues. (Book one
was a Special Edition.) Trust me, Colorado and the Forrest brothers will beckon
you to return for book three. In The Twelve-Month Marriage, Kathryn Jensen
puts her own emotional spin on that reader favorite, the marriage-of-convenience
plot. And finally, welcome new author Bonnie Gardner with Stranger in Her
Bed. Picture coming home to find out that everyone thinks you’re dead—and a
gorgeous male stranger is living in your house!
Enjoy them all, and don’t forget to come back next month for more of the
most exciting romantic reading around, right here in Silhouette Intimate
Moments.
Yours,
Leslie Wainger
Senior Editor and Editorial Coordinator
Please address questions and book requests to:
Silhouette Reader Service
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TERESE RAMIN
AN UNEXPECTED ADDITION
Books by Terese Ramin
Silhouette Intimate Moments
Water from the Moon #279
Winter Beach #477
A Certain Slant of Light #634
Five Kids, One Christmas #680
An Unexpected Addition #793
Silhouette Special Edition
Accompanying Alice #656
TERESE RAMIN
lives in Michigan with her husband, two children, two dogs, two cats and an
assortment of strays. When not writing romance novels, she writes chancel
dramas, sings alto in the church choir, plays the guitar, yells at her children to
pick up their rooms (even though she keeps telling herself that she won’t), and
responds with silence when they ask her where they should put their rooms after
they’ve picked them up.
A full-fledged believer in dreams, she says the only thing she’s ever wanted
to do is write. After years of dreaming without doing anything about it, she
finally wrote her first romance novel, Water from the Moon, which won a
Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award in 1987 and was published
by Silhouette in 1989. Her subsequent books have appeared on the Waldenbooks
romance bestseller list. She is also the recipient of a 1991 Romantic Times
Reviewer’s Choice Award. She hasn’t dreamed without acting for a long time.
For Sean, because he is.
And for Damaris, who said, “Write the book you want to write.” Thanks.
To Jeanne,
who took the pictures, made suggestions, worried and always lets me take her
for granted. Thanks for keeping the Complaints Department open.
Acknowledgments
My thanks to Sheila Davis and Tom Pettipren, who talked with me about
their own and others’ experiences with foster children and foreign adoptions.
You taught me a great deal. Blessings on you and all of your children. Thanks
also to Kathleen Daly, med tech, Denver V.A.M.C., for putting me in touch with
live Ilamas and their people, and with the V.A.M.C. prosthetics service. Thanks
and appreciation to Bob Riley of Boulder Ridge Ranch, Boulder, Colorado, for
spending so much time answering my questions and introducing me to his
llamas, indulging my curiosity, and for his patience and humor when I induced
his normally mellow friends to spit when they usually don’t—at people, that is—
ever. Special thanks to Dennis Luse, Certified Prosthetist, of the Denver
V.A.M.C. prosthetics lab, for his time and patience in answering my questions
about juvenile amputees, prosthetic limbs and for showing me practical solutions
to impractical problems. I would also like to acknowledge a research debt to the
work Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, by Hope Edelman, Addison-
Wesley Publishing, 1994. Any mistakes, stretches of reality and leaps of faith
are entirely my own.
