A Real Hero Needs... The neighbor made Connie Simmons see red. An irresponsible party animal with the kind of magnetism that made her knees shake, he was mostly an irritation--with a generous dollop of temptation mixed in. But because he rescued her child from a fire and got hurt, it was only neighborly to call a truce. ...The Right Time And Place Detective Hale Crandall had spent months wondering how to patch things up with the blond bombshell next door. Saving her adopted son Skip--while it almost got him killed--had been a lucky break. Now he just needed to make himself an indispensable part of their lives--and wait!