The MacKade Brothers: Devin and Shane

The heart of Devin MacKade. Devin MacKade knew it was his destiny to serve an protect the small town of Antietam, Maryland. And he also suspected his future should have little Cassie Connor in it. After Cassie married the wrong man, Devin tried to convince himself there would be other women, other loves. Now, after Cassie´s divorce, Devin can finally follow his heart.

The fall of Shane MacKade. Shane MacKade loved women. He loved the look of them, the smell of them, the taste of them - everything about them. So the last thing he expected was to become a one-woman man. And even more surprising was that it was the Ph.D - toting academic Rebecca Knight that had him heading for a fall.

Utdrag ur boken:
From the kitchen window, Rebecca watched the four men. She was puzzled. At first it had seemed they were having some sort of serious discussion - some logistical problem with the hay, she´d concluded. Then it had looked as though an argument was brewing.
"Something is going on out there," she commented, and Savannah, an infant over her shoulder, wandered to the window.
"Oh, they´re going to go at it."
"At what?"
"Each other, what else?"
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Filled with righteous indignation, Rebecca slapped her hands on her hips. She didn´t just hear grunts and curses now. They were laughing. Four baboons, she decided, laughing while they beat on each other.
She had a good carrying voice when she needed one. It had filled many lecture hall. She used it now. "Stop this nonsense immediately. There are children in the house."
Devin paused, his filthy hand over Rafe´s filthy face.
"What?"
"Get up from there all of you. You should be ashamed." Eyes hot, she scalded every one of them in turn. "I said get up.You." Choosing at random, she pointed a righteous finger at Devin. "You´re a sheriff, for God´s sake. You´re supposed to uphold order, and here you are rolling in the mud like a hooligan."
"Yes, ma´am." Gamely he swallowed a chuckle and disengaged himself from the tangle of limbs."Don´t know what got into me."
"And you." That valiant finger aimed at Jared. "A lawyer. What are you thinking of?"
"Nothing." He rubbed a hand over his sore jaw before he rose."Absolutely nothing."
"Rafe MacKade." She had the pleasure of seeing him wince. "A businessman, a pillar of the community. Husband and father. What kind of example are you setting for your children?"
"A poor one." He cleaned his throat and got to his feet. He had the feeling that if he let the laugh loose she´d put him on his butt again.
"And you," she said, with such contempt in her voice that Shane decided to stay put in the mud. "I thought better of you."
"She sounds like Mom," Shane murmured, and his brothers nodding in respectful agreement. "Hey, I didn´t start it."
"Typical response. Just typical. Is this how you solve your problems, your disagreements?"
He rubbed some of the dirt from his aching face. "Yeah."
"That´s pathetic. You´re all pathetic." Her authoritative look had three men shifting their feet and Shane grinning. "Violence is never the answer. There is no problem that can´t be solved with reason and communication."
"We are communicating," Shane said, and earned a withering stare.
"I expect you to settle this like rational human beings. If you can´t control yourselves, you´ll just have to keep your distance from each other."
"Isn´t she something?" Shane said, in a tone that had all three of his brothers studying him. "Have you ever seen anybody like her? Come on and kiss me, sweetie."

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