A Charmed Little Lie

Charmed Texas is everything the name implies-quaint comfortable and as small-town friendly as they come. And when it comes to romance there's no place quite as enchanting . . .<P>Lanie Barrett didn't mean to lie. Spinning a story of a joyous marriage to make a dying woman happy is forgivable isn't it? Lanie thinks so especially since her beloved Aunt Ruby would have been heartbroken to know the truth of her niece's sadly loveless short-of-sparkling existence. Trouble is according to the will Ruby didn't quite buy Lanie's tale. And to inherit the only house Lanie ever really considered a home she'll have to bring her husband back to Charmed for three whole months-or watch Aunt Ruby's cozy nest go to her weasel cousin who will sell it to a condo developer. <P>Nick McKane is out of work out of luck and the spitting image of the man Lanie described. He needs money for his daughter's art school tuition and Lanie needs a convenient spouse. It's a match made . . . well not quite in heaven but for a temporary arrangement it couldn't be better. Except the longer Lanie and Nick spend as husband and wife the more the connection between them begins to seem real. Maybe this modern fairy tale really could come true . . .