The MacGregors: Robert & Cybil

This omnibus collects two contemporary romances, each following its own couple, and each built on a pairing that does not look likely at first.

In The Winning Hand, Darcy Wallace spends her last three dollars at a hotel casino and wins a jackpot of almost two million dollars. Casino manager Robert MacGregor Blade, called Mac, sets out to look after her.

His protective, big brotherly plan starts to fail. Something about Darcy gets under his skin and plays havoc with his good intentions. Winning her over will cost him the biggest gamble of his life.

In The Perfect Neighbor, Preston McQuinn has furnished his new apartment, like his life, to suit himself: dark and empty. He is a brooding loner who believes he has shut the door on love for good.

Then Cybil Campbell barges in. She is sunny, bubbly and next door, and her arrival breaks into the well-ordered gloom Preston prefers. He feels a grudging fascination he cannot deny, and he begins to long for something he had written off. The question is whether a man who wanted only gloom will open his heart to her.