Sometimes Reality Bites???

Lauren Campbell thought she knew where she was going. After dropping her son off at college, she'd have four years to live out her dreams and plan the future. But she'd been so living in denial, spending her days baking cookies, cleaning the house and going to PTA meetings, that she missed the fine print on her divorce. Now she's about to go from empty nest to no nest because her ex's support has ended!

From dressing as a milkmaid at the local grocery to working on window displays, Lauren struggles to make lemonade out of lemons. But a strange thing happens along the way. This "temporary" life starts looking more appealing than the life she's built in her fantasies???.

When Nikki Rivers read her first Harlequin Romance novel, she knew she'd found a home for the stories running around in her head. Since then she has written five novels for Harlequin American Romance. Her first romantic comedy for Harlequin Duets, SNOWBALL'S CHANCE, will be out in December 2001. ROMANCING ANNIE, Nikki's third Harlequin American Romance, won the Wisconsin Romance Writer's of America READER'S CHOICE AWARD for best short contemporary romance novel of 1998. Raised in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Nikki uses a variety of Midwest locals for her books and enjoys creating fictional small towns and stocking them with eccentric secondary characters. She now lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with Ron her husband of thirty-four years, daughter Jennifer and an irascible Cairn Terrier named Scruffy.