The Rancher's Baby Bargain

Former class nerd Lucy Carr comes home with a tantalizing offer for hometown hottie Aiden Harper: shes developed a natural pesticide that will kill off the spider mites eating his crops and shell give it to him for free...if he agrees to father a child for her. Time is running out to go the traditional route for finding a man and Lucy wants her baby to be smart AND good in gym class.Aiden has put everything he has into his fields of hops and the award-winning beer he brews with them. But one more year of mites eating half his crops and his familys farm and legacy-as well as his dreams for his brewery-are going to go under. When Lucy shows up looking hot and being hailed for her scientific achievements Aiden is more than a little jealous. He remembers how fun science class was the year theyd been lab partners and how much more enticing Lucy had been than the cheerleaders on the football field. Hed never had the guts to admit his crush in high school-after all jocks and nerds didnt mix. Now Lucy has everything and hes on the verge of losing it all.But what starts as a trade of necessity to achieve their goals turns into a tangled jumble of emotions when they realize they might have found more than bugs and babies: they may have found the person who completes their lives.