Will she stop a wedding scandal or create one? It’s a huge society wedding—a whole weekend’s worth—but the groom’s dogged by doubts. The bride’s pushy mother commands her harried assistant, Anne, to keep him in line, unaware that she’s his ex-girlfriend. As for Anne, feelings she believed dead are stirring to life. Does Eric share them? And if he does, how much of a wedding catastrophe are they going to wreak? Romantic Times magazine gave Assignment: Groom! a four-star review. Reviewer Debbie Richardson said, “Jacqueline Diamond delivers a wonderful romance of reconciliation and combines it with a quirky cast of characters.” Don’t miss this hilarious romantic comedy by the USA Today bestselling author of The Bride Wore Gym Shoes and The Would-Be Mommy.

This book provides coverage of survivability and traffic grooming; two key issues in modern optical networks.

Contains cases reported in the issues of The Estate gazette.

The bride is on the run! Samantha Avery yielded to impulse when she walked down the aisle. Bad move: when the groom hands her a ring she recognizes as stolen, she has to run and keep running until his trial. Answering an ad for brides, she flees to a remote resort town under construction. The brawny boss, Kieran French, needs a temporary wife for legal reasons. But has Samantha jumped out of the lace-trimmed frying pan into the fire? Readers will welcome this laugh-out-loud romantic comedy, revised and updated, from the bestselling author of The Bride Wore Gym Shoes and Assignment: Groom! “Jacqueline Diamond writes marvelous romantic comedy.”--Leena Hyat, The Best Reviews Jacqueline Diamond’s more than 100 novels include romantic comedies, Regencies and medical romances. A former Associated Press reporter and TV columnist, Jackie received a Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times magazine and has twice finaled for the prestigious Rita © Award. She currently writes the Safe Harbor Medical Mystery series, a spin-off from her 17-book Safe Harbor Medical Romance series.

Now in one volume, three full-length wedding-themed romantic comedies by a USA Today bestselling author! Run, Run, Runaway Bride: When Samantha’s would-be groom turns out to be a notorious bandit, she has to run and keep running until his trial. But with nowhere safe to go, she hides out with a stranger—as his wife. Thank goodness she already has the wedding dress! The Bride Wore Gym Shoes: What if an infallible psychic saw you marrying Mr. Wrong? Krista must prevent it, even by staging a fake wedding to match the vision. Mr. Wrong agrees to cooperate—but only at a price! Assignment: Groom!: It’s a huge society wedding—a whole weekend’s worth—but the groom’s dogged by doubts. His pushy mother-in-law-to-be orders her assistant, Anne, to keep him in line, unaware that she’s his ex-girlfriend. How could they not be headed for a catastrophe? Romantic Times called this hilarious comedy “a wonderful romance.”

Optical networks based on wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) tech nology offer the promise to satisfy the bandwidth requirements of the Inter net infrastructure, and provide a scalable solution to support the bandwidth needs of future applications in the local and wide areas. In a waveleng- routed network, an optical channel, referred to as a lightpath, is set up between two network nodes for communication. Using WDM technology, an optical fiber link can support multiple non-overlapping wavelength channels, each of which can be operated at the data rate of 10 Gbps or 40 Gbps today. On the other hand, only a fraction of customers are expected to have a need for such a high bandwidth. Due to the large cost of the optical backbone infrastruc ture and enormous WDM channel capacity, connection requests with diverse low-speed bandwidth requirements need to be efficiently groomed onto hi- capacity wavelength channels. This book investigates the optimized design, provisioning, and performance analysis of traffic-groomable WDM networks, and proposes and evaluates new WDM network architectures. Organization of the Book Significant amount of research effort has been devoted to traffic grooming in SONET/WDM ring networks since the current telecom networks are mainly deployed in the form of ring topologies or interconnected rings. As the long-haul backbone networks are evolving to irregular mesh topologies, traffic grooming in optical WDM mesh networks becomes an extremely important and practical research topic for both industry and academia.