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Postcards From Paris: Bound by His Desert Diamond / Amorous Liaisons / The Secret to Marrying Marchesi
Sarah Mayberry
Andie Brock
Amanda Cinelli
Sealed with a French kiss…Princess Annalina would do anything to end her arranged engagement including getting photographed in a compromising position with a handsome stranger! Yet her mystery man is Prince Zahir Zahani, her betrothed’s brother, and the kiss that sparks a powerful passion!*Max Laurent has always wanted Maddy Green. But he let her go once before rather than stand between her and her dreams. Now she’s on his Paris doorstep, needing a place to stay. Can one steamy night together help them reconnect with the past?*Billionaire Rigo Marchesi’s secret lovechild with actress Nicole Duvalle . The biggest bombshell to could destroy the CEO latest business deal. Unless the rumours that the baby scandal will have a fairy-tale ending are true?
About the Authors (#ucb4e9976-f9e7-524b-8e95-29af4088a413)
ANDIE BROCK started inventing imaginary friends around the age of four and is still doing that today—only now the sparkly fairies have made way for spirited heroines and sexy heroes. Thankfully she now has some real friends, as well as a husband and three children, plus a grumpy but lovable cat. Andie lives in Bristol, and when not actually writing might well be plotting her next passionate romance story.
SARAH MAYBERRY has moved eight times in the past five years and is currently living in New Zealand— although that may change at the drop of a hat. When she’s not moving house or writing, she loves to read, go to the movies, buy shoes and travel (mostly to find more shoe shops). She has been happily partnered to her man for over fifteen years, and plans to make it many more.
AMANDA CINELLI was raised in a large Irish/Italian family in the suburbs of Dublin, Ireland. Her love of romance was inspired after “borrowing” one of her mother’s beloved Mills & Boon novels at the age of twelve. Writing soon became a necessary outlet for her wildly overactive imagination.
Now married with a daughter of her own, she splits her time between changing nappies, studying psychology and writing love stories.
Postcards from Paris
Bound by His Desert Diamond
Andie Brock
Amorous Liaisons
Sarah Mayberry
The Secret to Marrying Marchesi
Amanda Cinelli
www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)
ISBN: 978-1-474-09296-8
Postcards from Paris
Bound by His Desert Diamond © 2017 Andrea Brock Amorous Liaisons © 2008 Small Cow Productions PTY Ltd. The Secret to Marrying Marchesi © 2016 Amanda Cinelli
Published in Great Britain 2019
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Table of Contents
Cover (#ua44f7ada-a776-5ad7-801f-83d585365108)
About the Authors (#uef512e6d-dd36-5cc6-a0f8-8cb718aa7725)
Title Page (#u478d000c-8c3e-541b-9cd7-bce2bf3056d9)
Copyright (#u41b8389c-a1ef-5552-a15b-ee0a8be9cb8c)
Bound by His Desert Diamond (#u3c914e13-d74a-5e90-a0a7-3f3d7fbf63aa)
Back Cover Text (#ub380e088-4501-595b-8ffe-0459001b83fa)
Dedication (#ua791ef09-ceb7-5288-aea1-058efbeba3cf)
CHAPTER ONE (#u960f7b64-3dc0-5f5c-9dfd-e528ef82b8af)
CHAPTER TWO (#u2e824f49-f986-5467-826c-7ab23a8aadfb)
CHAPTER THREE (#u34d35c8e-3cc4-55b3-bcdb-114260c84fc8)
CHAPTER FOUR (#u09aefa2c-0d76-5ebf-88f3-29e613914d1b)
CHAPTER FIVE (#ub72aa52b-048b-58a4-9aa1-48b4e353c93b)
CHAPTER SIX (#u1db19404-048f-5001-acff-dd725ae45d69)
CHAPTER SEVEN (#u7e339ee3-201c-53d5-ac7b-e0750d3b0804)
CHAPTER EIGHT (#u0474b5aa-2327-5e42-9ddf-e4d0bc989ba4)
CHAPTER NINE (#u69c6b6b7-bb66-5d7b-ad7d-5ab6c9d81136)
CHAPTER TEN (#u94db26d9-c41b-5f3e-a052-aa6ac7fe0644)
CHAPTER ELEVEN (#u41d0cad4-2b8e-541c-93c8-bec5371fea13)
CHAPTER TWELVE (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER THIRTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER FOURTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)
Amorous Liaisons (#litres_trial_promo)
Dedication (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter One (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Two (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Three (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Four (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Five (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Six (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Seven (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)
The Secret to Marrying Marchesi (#litres_trial_promo)
Dedication (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER ONE (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER TWO (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER THREE (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER FOUR (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER FIVE (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER SIX (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER SEVEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER EIGHT (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER NINE (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER TEN (#litres_trial_promo)
EPILOGUE (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
Bound by His Desert Diamond (#ucb4e9976-f9e7-524b-8e95-29af4088a413)
Andie Brock
The Plan
Princess Annalina would do anything to end her arranged engagement...including getting photographed in a compromising position with a handsome stranger!
The Prince
Her mystery man is Prince Zahir Zahani—her betrothed’s brother—and the kiss that sparks unexpected need in them both traps Annalina and Zahir in a whole new kind of royal bind...till death do them part!
The Passion!
Having learned the cost of trusting others, Zahir tries to keep Annalina at a distance. But she challenges him at every turn, and suddenly, giving in to his darkest desires is all Zahir craves...
To Roger.
Who has spent far more time discussing
manly emotions and reactions and romance
in general than he ever signed up for!
Thank you Con. X
CHAPTER ONE (#ucb4e9976-f9e7-524b-8e95-29af4088a413)
CLASPING THE COLD metal railings, Annalina stared down at the swirling black depths of the River Seine. She shivered violently, her heart thumping beneath the tight-fitting bodice of her evening gown, her designer shoes biting into the soft flesh of her heels. Clearly they had not been designed for a mad sprint down the bustling boulevards and cobbled back streets of Paris.
Oh, God. Anna dragged in a shuddering lung full of cold night air. What had she just done?
Somewhere behind her in one of Paris’s most grand hotels, a society party was in swing. A glittering, star-studded occasion attended by royalty and heads of state, the great, the good and the glamorous from the world over. It was a party being thrown in her honour. And worse, far worse, a party where a man she had only just met was about to announce that she was to be his bride.
She let out a rasping breath, watching the cloud of condensation disperse into the night. She had no idea where she was or what she was going to do now but she did know that there was no going back. The brutal fact was she couldn’t go through with this marriage, no matter what the consequences. Right up until tonight she had genuinely believed she could do it, could commit to this union, to please her father and to save her country from financial ruin.
Even yesterday, when she had met her intended for the first time, she had played along. Watching in a kind of dazed stupor as the ring had been slipped onto her finger, a perfunctory gesture performed by a man who had just wanted to get the deed over with, and witnessed by her father, whose steely-eyed glare had left no room for second thoughts or doubts. As King of the small country of Dorrada he was going to make sure that this union took place. That his daughter would marry King Rashid Zahani, ruler of the recently reformed Kingdom of Nabatean, if it was the last thing she ever did.
Which frankly, right now, looked like a distinct possibility. Anna gazed down at the ring on her finger. The enormous diamond glittered back at her, mocking her with its ostentatious sparkle. Heaven only knew what it was worth—enough to pay the entire annual salaries of the palace staff, no doubt, and with money to spare. She tugged it over her cold knuckles and held it in her palm, feeling the burden of its weight settle like a stone in her heart.
To hell with it.
Closing her fist, she raised herself up on tiptoes, leaning as far over the railings as she could. She was going to do this. She was going to fling this hateful ring into the river. She was going to control her own destiny.
He came from out of nowhere—an avalanche of heat, weight and muscle that landed on top of her, knocking the breath from her lungs, flattening her against the granite wall of his chest. She could see nothing except the darkness of him, feel nothing except the strength of the arms that were locked around her like corded steel. Her body went limp, her bones dissolving with shock. Only her poor heart tried to keep her alive, taking up a wild, thundering beat.
‘Oh, no, you don’t.’
He growled the words over the top of her head, somewhere in the outside world that, until a couple of moments ago, she had quite taken for granted. Now she panicked she would never see it again.
Don’t what?
