Okay, maybe she did need a man...

But first Hannah Ross has to make sure that the new ad campaign for Granny's Grains begins without a hitch-after all, it was her idea to locate America's "perfect" family and then slap their faces on every cereal box.

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.