title: The Mating Game
author: Raffin, Barbara
description: KELBY RICHARDS wants love with Mr. Right, but she has settled for breeding fine collies. The complication: The perfect stud for the best bitch she's ever bred is owned by the cad she fell in love with when they were teenage dog handlers.CLAY DAVIDSON had been every loathsome thing the shy, awkward Kelby had called him when she discovered his attempted seduction had been done on a dare. But the openness with which Kelby had offered herself to him body, heart, and soul--her utter longing for love had struck a familiar note in the boy whose mother had put breeding dogs ahead of nurturing children. On the brink of adulthood, Clay faced up to the fact that he hurt Kelby. He vowed to become a better man by following the example of the most honest person he knew, Kelby. Unfortunately, they'd gone their separate ways before he could prove to her he was a changed man. Now, he has only twenty-one days, the length of her bitch's heat cycle, to prove he's the right man for her.