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Call Me Cupid: The Guy to Be Seen With / The First Crush Is the Deepest / Too Close for Comfort
Heidi Rice
Fiona Harper
Nina Harrington
The Guy to Be Seen With by Fiona HarperDaniel Bradford is off the market and the woman who’s ensnared him? Chloe Michaels. London's very own Indiana Jones is in for the-romantic-adventure of a lifetime!The First Crush is the Deepest by Nina HarringtonSam Richards was Amber DuBois's first crush, first kiss and first love. Until he broke her heart. Now he’s back, but will her first crush stand the test of time?Too Close for Comfort by Heidi RiceIona might be spitting daggers at being rescued, but that doesn’t stop the sexual heat with Zane Montoya reaching scorching point!
FIONA HARPER lives in London, but her other favourite places to be are the Highlands of Scotland, and the Kent countryside on a summer’s afternoon. She loves cooking good food and anything cinnamon-flavoured. Of course she still can’t keep away from a good book or a good movie—especially romances—but only if she’s stocked up with tissues, because she knows she will need them by the end, be it happy or sad. Her favourite things in the world are her wonderful husband, who has learned to decipher her incoherent ramblings, and her two daughters.
NINA HARRINGTON grew up in rural Northumberland, and decided at the age of eleven that she was going to be a librarian—because then she could read all of the books in the public library whenever she wanted! Since then she has been a shop assistant, community pharmacist, technical writer, university lecturer, volcano walker and industrial scientist, before taking a career break to realise her dream of being a fiction writer. When she is not creating stories which make her readers smile, her hobbies are cooking, eating, enjoying good wine—and talking, for which she has had specialist training.
HEIDI RICE was born and bred and still lives in London. She has two boys who love to bicker, a wonderful husband who, luckily for everyone, has loads of patience, and a supportive and ever-growing British/French/Irish/American family. She’s been a film buff since her early teens, and a romance junkie for almost as long. She indulged her first love by being a film reviewer for ten years. Then a few years ago she decided to spice up her life by writing romance. Discovering the fantastic sisterhood of romance writers (both published and unpublished) in Britain and America made it a wild and wonderful journey to her first Mills & Boon novel.
Call Me Cupid
The Guy to Be Seen With
Fiona Harper
The First Crush is the Deepest
Nina Harrington
Too Close for Comfort
Heidi Rice
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ISBN: 978-1-474-08136-8
CALL ME CUPID
The Guy to Be Seen With © 2013 Fiona Harper The First Crush is the Deepest © 2013 Nina Harrington Too Close for Comfort © 2013 Heidi Rice
Published in Great Britain 2018
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Fiona Harper
London’s most eligible guy—finally snared?
Who can forget gorgeous adventurer Daniel Bradford? Especially after this commitment-phobe’s on-air rejection of his girlfriend’s marriage proposal sparked a scandal! But some people love a challenge. With Daniel suddenly back on the market, all of London’s single ladies are on the lookout. Yet he’s shown no inclination to get caught by anyone…until now.
So just who is special enough to catch his attention? Our sources reveal she’s strong-willed blonde bombshell Chloe Michaels, orchid specialist and Daniel’s new colleague. And rumor has it that with this tough cookie, London’s very own Indiana Jones is in for the—romantic—adventure of a lifetime!
For Nikki—we made a great team!
And for Andy, my own triffid-loving Indiana Jones.
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Daniel always grumbled that his mobile phone rang at the most inconvenient of moments, and it didn’t disappoint him now. Just as he was lifting a delicate Venus flytrap out of its pot, his hands full of roots and compost, his trouser pocket buzzed. Since he refused to assign fancy ringtones to everyone in his contact list the double ring of an old-fashioned phone told him precisely nothing about the caller’s identity.
Once upon a time, he’d have ignored it—his hands being full of an uprooted Dionaea muscipula and all—but these days he could never quite push the thought from his mind that it might be his younger sister, telling him she was ill again. Or worse, a stranger telling him she’d collapsed and was in Accident and Emergency, and casually requesting he pick her kids up from pre-school.
Reluctantly, he shook the earth off his right hand, cupped the clump of roots and foliage in his left and fumbled in the thigh pocket of his cargo trousers for his phone. He balanced the handset on his shoulder and squeezed his cheek onto it to keep it in place as he attempted to brush more of the compost that caked his fingers off on the back of his trousers.
‘Yup.’
The phone started to slide and he quickly grabbed for it with his still-dirty hand.
‘Daniel Bradford?’ a deep yet annoyingly upbeat male voice asked.
‘Yup,’ he repeated, more focused on trying to replace the prize specimen in its pot with the use of only one hand. It wasn’t going well. He wasn’t planning on dividing this one for propagation yet but it was threatening to do just that.
‘Well, Daniel, this is Doug Harley and you’re live on Radio EROS, London’s most romantic radio station!’
Daniel stood up straight, then twisted round, scanning the tropical nursery at London’s famous Kew Gardens, expecting to see a group of snickering underlings hiding behind a palm in an adjacent room of the sprawling greenhouse. This had to be a prank, right? And, if there was one advantage of working in a place where ninety per cent of the buildings were made of glass, it was that there was nowhere to hide. He’d find them and make their lives hell for this.
But all he could see was a lone horticultural student, wheeling a trolley of seedlings past the door, plugged into his music and oblivious to the world. The rest of the multi-roomed greenhouse was unusually quiet.
‘Daniel?’ the silky smooth voice crooned in his ear.
