title: Always a Hero
author: Leiber, Vivian
description: VIRGIN BRIDE!
  
  Thirty-year-old Kate Lodge had been saving--and saving and saving--herself for marriage. So when her fiance ditched her cold, this Miss Goody Two-Shoes was just about ready to do something shocking with the first man she saw ....
  
  Unfortunately it was Lieutenant Kyle Reeves who delivered the "Dear Kate" kiss-off letter for his friend. Kyle was obviously an officer, but was he a gentleman, too? In one day this sexy soldier had become his buddy's unsuspecting stand-in ...this tiny town's first hero ...and Kate's last chance for passion!