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Australian Affairs: Claimed: Dr Chandler's Sleeping Beauty / Countering His Claim / Australia's Maverick Millionaire
Margaret Way
Rachel Bailey
MELANIE MILBURNE
Australian
AFFAIRS
Australian Affairs: Taken – January 2019
Australian Affairs: Rescued – February 2019
Australian Affairs: Tempted – March 2019
Australian Affairs: Seduced – April 2019
Australian Affairs: Wed – May 2019
Australian Affairs: Claimed – June 2019
About the Authors
From as soon as MELANIE MILBURNE could pick up a pen she knew she wanted to write. It was when she picked up her first Mills and Boon at seventeen that she realised she wanted to write romance. Distracted for a few years by meeting and marrying her own handsome hero, surgeon husband Steve and having two boys, plus completing a Masters of Education and becoming a nationally ranked athlete (masters swimming) she decided to write. In 2008 she won the Australian Readers Association’ most popular category/series romance and in 2011 she won the prestigious Romance Writers of Australia R*BY award.
RACHEL BAILEY developed a serious book addiction at a young age (via Peter Rabbit and Jemima Puddleduck) and has never recovered. Just how she likes it.
She lives on a piece of paradise on Australia’s Sunshine Coast with her hero and four dogs.
Rachel would love to hear from you and can be contacted through her website, www.rachelbailey.com (http://www.rachelbailey.com).
MARGARET WAY was born and raised in the subtropical river city of Brisbane, capital of Queensland, the Sunshine State. A conservatorium trained pianist, teacher, accompanist and vocal coach, she found her musical career came to an unexpected end when she took up writing—initially as a fun thing to do. She currently lives in a harbourside apartment at beautiful Raby Bay, a thirty-minute drive from the state capital.
Australian Affairs: Claimed
Dr Chandler’s Sleeping Beauty
Melanie Milburne
Countering His Claim
Rachel Bailey
Australia’s Maverick Millionaire
Margaret Way
www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)
ISBN: 978-1-474-08665-3
AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS: CLAIMED
Dr Chandler’s Sleeping Beauty © 2012 Melanie Milburne Countering His Claim © 2013 Rachel Robinson Australia’s Maverick Millionaire © 2011 by Margaret Way, Pty., Ltd.
Published in Great Britain 2018
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Table of Contents
Cover (#uc6099982-f03a-52d3-988e-0d40bb9e43eb)
About the Authors (#u6f0f00e0-7e9f-5efb-a161-e1c594698d85)
Title Page (#u1728ff11-5746-5798-a331-be0aac5208cf)
Copyright (#u8722b95c-c711-54aa-b839-679cc18cbed6)
Dr Chandler’s Sleeping Beauty (#u9c713dc4-8837-5042-8d40-35825975980c)
Dedication (#uf359e156-df08-5b94-86d8-e05365d775f3)
CHAPTER ONE (#ub93b0473-2443-5acc-897e-06c43b9d37eb)
CHAPTER TWO (#u7355e84a-e866-58b3-8f23-1d2698e71c60)
CHAPTER THREE (#u60ea2019-a749-5912-a68d-49565628c264)
CHAPTER FOUR (#u0b35f0d9-8a1d-5f1e-83e6-a19b47d35791)
CHAPTER FIVE (#u2c30dcc3-dac1-5279-8e28-31e171eee6d9)
CHAPTER SIX (#u72dbe289-d36f-52c7-a072-478198b7176e)
CHAPTER SEVEN (#u8bbcca54-ca31-54a5-b81c-97c85a2860bc)
CHAPTER EIGHT (#uafaa9678-63cd-5ec3-aa7d-b3920b28c29a)
CHAPTER NINE (#uad45d3a0-b2fd-5e10-b267-9fdb07f93b0d)
CHAPTER TEN (#u14d8a7bc-9235-5515-820d-564d6a62d875)
CHAPTER ELEVEN (#uc581e838-c5ff-5e8e-bcc9-f29391b49c01)
CHAPTER TWELVE (#u514c2991-dd78-58e1-9d73-4213692a914f)
CHAPTER THIRTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER FOURTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER FIFTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER SIXTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)
Countering His Claim (#litres_trial_promo)
Dedication (#litres_trial_promo)
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Three (#litres_trial_promo)
Four (#litres_trial_promo)
Five (#litres_trial_promo)
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Seven (#litres_trial_promo)
Eight (#litres_trial_promo)
Nine (#litres_trial_promo)
Ten (#litres_trial_promo)
Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)
Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)
Australia’s Maverick Millionaire (#litres_trial_promo)
PROLOGUE (#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)
EPILOGUE (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
Dr Chandler’s Sleeping Beauty (#u8d0850a1-6236-520e-8515-12a32ce49e0b)
Melanie Milburne
To Andrea Debomford who gave me the
inspiration for the way Jake and Kitty first meet.
Thanks for your friendship. Love you. xxx
CHAPTER ONE (#u8d0850a1-6236-520e-8515-12a32ce49e0b)
‘I CAN’T believe you talked me into wearing this,’ Kitty Cargill said to her cousin as they entered the city hotel where Julie’s ‘Pimps and Prostitutes’ fancy dress thirtieth birthday party was being held. ‘I’m sure it’s because I’m still suffering from jet lag and I’m not in my right mind.’
‘You look awesome,’ Julie said. ‘I never knew you had such great legs. That PVC skirt really shows some serious thigh.’
Kitty pulled the skirt—which in her opinion was too skimpy even to qualify for the term—down over the ladder in the black fishnet tights that her cousin had insisted was an essential part of the get-up. ‘Now I can see where my mother got her wacky out-there genes,’ she said, cringing in embarrassment at some of the looks she was attracting as they made their way to the function room.
‘Lighten up, hon,’ Julie said. ‘You’re not going to last long in Aussieland unless you strap on a sense of humour. You’re way too conservative. You Brits all act like you’ve been potty-trained at gunpoint.’
‘Ha, ha, ha,’ Kitty said. ‘I’ll have you know I wasn’t potty-trained at all. My parents thought it was far more progressive and fundamental to my development that I sorted it all out for myself when I was good and ready.’
Julie grinned at her. ‘So should I be worried about you going where you shouldn’t while you’re bunking down with me?’
Kitty gave her a look. ‘Don’t worry,’ she said. ‘I won’t be with you much longer. I’ve already found a town house to rent online. The real estate agent confirmed it this afternoon. It’s not far from the hospital and even closer to the beach at Bondi.’
‘It sounds perfect,’ Julie said. ‘Have you met anyone from St Benedict’s yet? Your boss in A&E or the CEO?’
‘Not yet,’ Kitty said. ‘I’m going to introduce myself in the next day or so. I’m not due to start until next week, but I thought it’d be polite to put in an appearance—given I didn’t go through the normal face-to-face interview process.’
