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By Royal Decree: Royally Romanced
Margaret Way
Marie Donovan
Olivia Gates
Royally Romanced by Marie DonovanWhen Georgio Di Leone visits New York he finds wedding dress maker Renata Pavoni irresistible! But can a normal gal finally get her “sexily ever after” with a real-life prince…?The English Lord’s Secret Son by Margaret WayAfter seven years, a chance meeting brings Julian ‘Ashe’ Carlisle and Cate Hamilton back together: neither can deny their love. Although Cate’s not from Ashe’s world, she’s got a revelation that will change everything!Conveniently His Princess by Olivia GatesIn Kanza Aal Ajmaan, Aram Nazaryan thinks he’s found the wife he “needs”. But unlike Aram, Kanza married for love. Will the truth of their union bring their marriage to an end…?
MARIE DONOVAN is a Chicago-area native who got her fill of tragedies and unhappy endings by majoring in opera/vocal performance and Spanish literature. As an antidote to all that gloom, she read romance novels voraciously throughout college and graduate school.
Please visit the author’s website at www.mariedonovan.com (http://www.mariedonovan.com).
MARGARET WAY, a definite Leo, was born and raised in the subtropical River City of Brisbane, capital of the Sunshine State of Queensland, Australia. She currently lives in a harbourside apartment at beautiful Raby Bay, a thirty-minute drive from the state capital, where she loves dining al fresco on her plant-filled balcony. No one and nothing is in a mad rush, and she finds the laid-back village atmosphere very conducive to her writing. With well over one hundred books to her credit, she still believes her best is yet to come.
OLIVIA GATES has always pursued creative passions such as singing and handicrafts. She still does, but only one of her passions grew gratifying enough, consuming enough, to become an ongoing careerwriting.
When she’s not writing, she is a doctor, a wife to her own alpha male and a mother to one brilliant girl and one demanding Angora cat. Visit Olivia at www.oliviagates.com (http://www.oliviagates.com).
By Royal Decree
Royally Romanced
Marie Donovan
The English Lord’s Secret Son
Margaret Way
Conveniently His Princess
Olivia Gates
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ISBN: 978-1-474-08148-1
BY ROYAL DECREE
Royally Romanced © 2011 Marie Donovan The English Lord’s Secret Son © 2012 Margaret Way Pty Ltd Conveniently His Princess © 2013 Olivia Gates
Published in Great Britain 2018
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Table of Contents
Cover (#u7ea7fb28-7515-5291-8fe9-9cdc65196b53)
About the Authors (#ue8123e98-53fd-5174-a9fe-84bc0a6a8b15)
Title Page (#u37e98889-ddb4-5cfe-84a2-057081445f94)
Copyright (#u7ea7fb28-7515-5291-8fe9-9cdc65196b53)
Royally Romanced (#u453cf8e4-bacc-50bb-808d-5a62e0479e8a)
Dedication (#u6286aba3-d009-5502-b6b4-6c5f985515a9)
Chapter 1 (#u6e9a1b03-a694-556e-a23f-befafb835294)
Chapter 2 (#uf9d5b951-b751-5189-8460-f635473da65c)
Chapter 3 (#u823dfa39-bd48-5ec5-9958-a6f89e624958)
Chapter 4 (#u5749d6a5-e52d-57f0-9f16-9f7954783412)
Chapter 5 (#ub457c9f5-7214-5d72-b1e5-f3a2eff66e61)
Chapter 6 (#u15e253e3-805b-589a-836a-1499d6282cbb)
Chapter 7 (#u08bf2803-d420-534f-b61c-995a490116a8)
Chapter 8 (#udb874d43-0d9b-5475-ab92-9d21ae2f8604)
Chapter 9 (#u3c11af73-1887-52b2-a054-1c809e28a28a)
Chapter 10 (#uead93438-6db9-5478-aa54-4fe42a413d24)
Chapter 11 (#u417ab0fd-8101-56a4-acee-b036d5d4ae7a)
Chapter 12 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 13 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 14 (#litres_trial_promo)
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About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
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Marie Donovan
To Dad,
A prince in a book for a prince of a man in my book.
Happy reading!
1
“YOU’RE WHAT?” GIORGIO’S gold pen dropped from his fingers and rolled forgotten off his polished wooden desk as he gripped his phone.
His sister, his baby sister, Stefania, giggled from four thousand miles away in New York City. “I’m engaged to be married.” She repeated it in Italian to make sure he understood. “Fidanzata.”
“But, but…” he stammered, normally not at a loss for words. “To whom? And when?”
“Well…” She drew out the news teasingly and then her excitement bubbled over in a rush. “His name is Dieter von Thalberg and we met a few months ago when he traveled here for business.”
“Only a few months?” Giorgio interrupted. “And you want to marry him already?” Stefania was impulsive sometimes, but not foolish.
“Of course.” She giggled again. “Oh, Giorgio, I can’t wait for you to meet him.” She lowered her voice. “He’s German nobility from a little place in Bavaria. You have to trust me, I’ve never felt this way about any other man. When he kisses me and we…well, anyway…” He practically heard her blush as she continued the catalog of wonders that was Dieter.
Giorgio fought the urge to start an international incident over Dieter, his future brother-in-law, for showing her the wide world of womanly delights. Giorgio couldn’t think of it in more specific terms without his fine lunch of sausages and polenta sitting uneasily in his stomach.
He sighed and wished he had finished the rest of the bottle of wine rather than restraining himself to the two glasses he normally imbibed. Rotten Dieter.
He hoped the man’s ancestral holdings were overrun with mold and rats. But then Stefania would be unhappy, and that was the last thing in the world Giorgio wanted.
Actually, he hoped Dieter had some money of his own for the ancestral holdings and wouldn’t constantly hit Giorgio up for loans. Giorgio had enough trouble with his own palazzo, molto grazie.
“But, Giorgio, you must realize none of this will be official until you give us your blessing. Dieter insisted it be so.”
Hmm. He quirked his mouth. It was true. As ruling head of the Most Serene Principality of Vinciguerra, Giorgio had the right to approve or deny betrothals of members of the royal family, i.e. his sister, Principessa Stefania Maria Cristina Angela Martelli di Leone. It said so on his business card. Well, not really.
The only other members of the royal family were his grandmother, who at eighty was not expected to seek permission to wed again, and himself: Giorgio Alphonso Giuseppe Franco Martelli di Leone, Prince of Vinciguerra. Long ago, Giorgio had decided that if he never wed and had the requisite heir-and-a-spare, he would pass the title to Stefania and her children. After all, he was an enlightened, twenty-first-century monarch. One with the power to send Dieter the Dunce packing. He snickered.
“Giorgio?” his sister asked nervously. “Are you still there?”
“Si, si.” He lapsed into silence, pondering what to do and how many heavy items Stefania would hurl at his head if he refused her undoubtedly golden-haired, Teutonic Prince Charming.
