THEMES

Make way for three stellar romances this month that feature twins and all their mischievous, meddlesome, angsty, double-the-fun antics!

• Julia Quinn's TO SIR PHILLIP, WITH LOVE (Avon) is next in the zany Bridgerton family series, following The Further Observations of Lady Whistledown (Jan. '03). Headstrong Eloise Bridgerton is through living life as a spinster and seeks out a husband. After sending a condolence letter to the widowed Sir Phillip Crane, an unlikely correspondence ensues that results in a marriage proposal. However, once Eloise and Phillip come face-to-face, the fantasy dissolves and all that's left is an unhappy gentleman, an outspoken young lady and of course, a pair of spirited twins who'll resort to mischief to rope themselves a mother.
  
  
• In A MAN TO CALL MY OWN (Pocket) by Johanna Lindsey, twins Amanda and Marian Larton aren't interested in bringing anyone together... In fact, each wants the cowboy next door, Chad Kinkaid, for herself, and they'll do whatever it takes to lure him into their arms. Having moved to their aunt's Texas ranch after losing their father, these two will duke it out to the catty end--literally--before admitting defeat...
  
  
• Rounding out the month is Lilian Darcy's debut Silhouette Special Edition, BALANCING ACT. Identical twins separated at birth are the catalyst that bring together a single dad and a single mom. By some quirk of fate, the adoptive father of one twin discovers that his little girl has an identical sister living 700 miles away. Doesn't he owe it to her to bring her into contact with the closest blood relative she could possibly have? But what will that contact do to his own life, and to the lives of his daughter's twin and her adoptive mother?