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Dear Reader,

Theresa (Teddy) Granville is Diana’s friend and partner fros by Diana series It wasn’t long into writing about this character that I knew Teddy had to have her own story and her oonderful hero in Ada in a bridal shop, I kne iroom are to the nuptials of their children

It doesn’t ent the parents are When it coic is what they say it is And, thus, themothers show their tail feathers

It’s great fun to watch as the wos But, as it turns out, Teddy and Adam have other plans…

Happy endings,

Shirley Hailstock

To my dear and supportive friend and fellow author Candice Poarch

Chapter 1

Blind date! Theresa Granville, Teddy to her friends, druernails on the white tablecloth She aiting for Adam Sullivan, a man she’d never met, and she could just as easily spend the rest of her life happily oblivious of his existence But that was not to be She’d been set up Teddy hated blind dates and she didn’t need anyone to find her a man, especially not herreeing to have dinner with Adao back on her word, she was stuck

The restaurant was crowded for a Thursday night in Princeton It was fall and the o Most of the restaurant’s patrons were around the bar cheering on some sports team’s efforts to statistically capture a spot in the history books Teddy had long since stopped hearing the triuaated the sound to white noise Her attention was on the restaurant’s entrance Fro area, where private parties were usually held, maybe she’d be able to spot her date when and if he arrived Maybe he hated blind dates, too And Teddy would feel no disappointently explain to her ain why she didn’t want to be set up, she wouldn’t be here, either

Frowning, she watched a short guy with round-riers went to the phone in her pocket Diana, her friend and business partner, was only a call away The two had worked out a signal if Teddy wanted or needed to be rescued

Again, she glanced at the ht or lack of it One of Teddy’s requireht At five feet nine inches, she didn’t want to stand with a man whose head only reached her breasts Thankfully, Mr Glasses lifted his hand, acknowledging his party, and joined a group at the end of the bar She breathed a sigh of relief that he wasn’t her blind date

Three other singles and two couples came in before the seven o’clock appointed hour Then he walked in right as the clock struck the hour Teddy did a double take when she saw hi her head, she immediately rejected him as someone who’d never need a blind date He couldn’t be the one Her ood Except for her father, as still a handsome man in his fifties, the lasses guy

For aover the banister, she watched the stranger move toward the receptionist The two had a short conversation and she checked her seating chart Then she shook her head As she gathered a couple of menus and led hi Teddy to overhear her own name

“I’ll bring Ms Granville over as soon as she arrives, sir,” the woman said

Teddy gasped Her stomach lurched and her heart juorgeous Where did her mother find him? He was tall, at least six foot two His shoulders were broad enough to rest any available head and for a uy need to be set up on a date? It took her a ather herself This was still a blind date and, as far as she knew, the two of the him could be a disaster despite his looks In fact, she expected it was Acould stand on his own Yes, she decided, there had to be so with him