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Rags To Riches: At His Bidding: A Home for Nobody's Princess / The Rancher's Housekeeper / Prince Daddy & the Nanny
Rebecca Winters
Brenda Harlen
Leanne Banks
She makes his house a home…Discovering she’s the illegitimate daughter of a Prince took some getting used to for Coco Jordan – especially when she’s working as a nanny! As much as she tries to focus on caring for baby Emma, her newfound fame keeps getting in the way. But help arrives from a devilishly handsome source…When rugged rancher Colt offers vulnerable Geena a housekeeper job, he’s worried that this beautiful stranger is trouble! But she quickly turns his house into a home he wants to come back to. Letting her into his world was one of the best decisions he’s made; dare he let her into his heart?It isn’t every day a woman is asked to be live-in nanny to a four-year-old princess. But it’s the little girl’s father who’s got Hannah dreaming about storybook endings. After admiring him from afar for years, she’s suddenly living under the same roof with seriously sexy Prince Michael Leandres!
At His Bidding
A Home for Nobody’s Princess
Leanne Banks
The Rancher’s Housekeeper
Rebecca Winters
Prince Daddy & the Nanny
Brenda Harlen
www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)
Table of Contents
Cover (#uca060dfa-42c0-5b39-8473-60078258e829)
Title Page (#ua7c10d60-2cd4-5f84-bf17-60d7054f08db)
A Home for Nobody’s Princess (#ufeb4a2a9-7483-5852-821f-915e1b7a2900)
Back Cover Text (#ud0ff9639-a891-5a86-9b45-59c470afe166)
About the Author (#u0f0d41a1-b95a-58eb-be02-12e673c1e86d)
Dedication (#u227d07c6-2703-5f81-a2e0-e593ff439ced)
Chapter One (#ulink_8b2f02b4-d670-5049-9577-9a547c67a805)
Chapter Two (#ulink_551292a4-6467-5ccc-b312-a8553977cb48)
Chapter Three (#ulink_05f77e33-d318-5bc1-bda9-e3721dd45d9b)
Chapter Four (#ulink_538a3355-6d6b-5d7e-b0a4-72af6a74f2f3)
Chapter Five (#ulink_64b86c7f-55f0-50d4-8cf8-e191851ab102)
Chapter Six (#ulink_d78e51d7-23a6-5045-a630-8cf675c1ea64)
Chapter Seven (#ulink_26fe8367-4eb2-5727-9d4d-0c0b6821de49)
Chapter Eight (#ulink_bcf588c7-bb28-5c0e-a158-e2807e214d32)
Chapter Nine (#ulink_ec47a649-74f3-5047-8082-89e628f99d32)
Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)
The Rancher’s Housekeeper (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Author (#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)
Prince Daddy & the Nanny (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Author (#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)
Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Epilogue (#litres_trial_promo)
Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)
A Home for Nobody’s Princess (#uaa8e36d1-0ad2-53d1-85eb-cda39ee5579c)
Leanne Banks
“HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE A PRINCESS?”
Coco Jordan wished she knew the answer. Discovering she was the illegitimate daughter of the prince of Chantaine took some getting used to—especially when she was working as a nanny on a Texas ranch! As much as she tried to focus on caring for baby Emma, her newfound fame kept getting in the way. Until help arrived from an unexpected—and handsome—source...
Widowed rancher Benjamin Garner would do anything for his daughter—even fake an engagement to Coco to keep the paparazzi at bay. Princess or not, Coco’s the best woman for his child’s needs—and though he doesn’t dare think about it too much, probably his own. Soon their “royal romance” is making headlines—but can their all-too-real love survive the pressure?
LEANNE BANKS is a New York Times bestselling author with over sixty books to her credit. A book lover and romance fan from even before she learned to read, Leanne has always treasured the way that books allow us to go to new places and experience the lives of wonderful characters. Always ready for a trip to the beach, Leanne lives in Virginia with her family and her Pomeranian muse.
This book is dedicated to the babes:Coco, Ann, Terri, Mina, Rose, Peggy, Sharon, Jane, Kathy, Kathy, Kim, Sandy, Catherine, Terry.You are a constant source of inspiration to me.
Chapter One (#ulink_b499aa1e-cdb9-569a-8c65-e19763100ec9)
His daughter hated him.
Benjamin Garner carefully opened the front door to his sprawling two-story house and paused. Even though he was six foot four and had been described as two hundred pounds of muscle due to the hard work he put in on his cattle ranch of over ten thousand acres, he’d become a stranger in his own home.
Why? Because his five-month-old daughter couldn’t stand him.
Every time he came toward her, she gave a shriek that would wake the entire country of New Zealand, and New Zealand was a good fifteen-hour flight away from the town of Silver City, Texas.
He stepped as lightly as he could in his boots. Coco Jordan, the young nanny who had seemed to work magic with baby Emma from the first time the two had met, had assured him that Emma could sleep through regular environmental noises, but he didn’t quite believe her.
Sometimes Benjamin wondered if his daughter had special powers and could smell him or hear him breathe even from the front door when she was upstairs in the nursery. Benjamin scowled at himself. This just showed what a nutcase he was becoming.
His dog, Boomer, limped out to greet him. Boomer had been one of his best herding dogs, but after he’d gotten his leg twisted in some barbed wire, he couldn’t run fast enough. Benjamin figured the dog had earned his retirement, so Boomer spent his days trying to catch scraps from his housekeeper’s cooking and dozing on the sofa. Benjamin reached down to give the mixed-breed dog a rub on his head, but was quiet about it. At least his dog liked him.
Heading for his office at the back of the house, he strode past the kitchen.
“Ah!”
His stomach knotted. He knew that sound. He knew that voice. He kept on moving.
“Benjamin.” The low, sweet voice of the nanny called to him. “You can’t avoid her forever.”
“Ah!” Emma said.
Taking a deep breath, he turned and faced the two of them, standing in the kitchen doorway. His daughter stared at him with big blue suspicious eyes, while Coco was all soft, pretty encouragement. Emma wasn’t screaming—yet. Maybe she was just gearing up for it.
“She just finished eating, so she should be in a good mood. Don’t you want to hold her?”
Hell, no, he thought. A rattlesnake was easier to handle. He shifted his hat back and shrugged. “I haven’t washed up.”
“That’s okay. A little dirt won’t kill her.”
“Okay,” he said, opening his arms, preparing himself for his daughter’s rejection of him. “I’ll hold her.”
Coco moved closer and Benjamin noticed that Emma’s eyes seemed to grow larger with each step she took. “Here you go,” she murmured to Emma. “This is your big strong daddy and he will always take care of you. There’s no need to be afraid of him. He’s on your side.”
Coco gently placed Emma in his arms and he drew her close to his chest, holding his breath. Emma stared up at him, her eyes wide. He counted silently. One. Two. Three. Four. Five.
She pressed her lips together and glanced toward Coco. As soon as her lower lip jutted out in a perfectly defined pout, he knew what was coming. His daughter let out a high-pitched sound of distress that quickly grew in volume. He met Coco’s discouraged gaze and shook his head.
“Here,” he said, handing Emma back to the nanny. “There’s no need to torture the poor thing. That’s why I hired you.”
Coco patted Emma on the back in a soothing motion. “But we have to get her used to you. We have to find a way—”
“Maybe by the time she hits her first birthday, she’ll like me better,” he said and turned away, tamping down his own sense of discouragement.
“Wait,” Coco said, and he felt her hand on his arm.
He glanced over his shoulder.
“Maybe she doesn’t like your hat,” she said. “Maybe if you take it off, she’ll—”
“I’ll give it a try next time,” he said. “Right now, I need to enter some stock updates on the computer. Later,” he said and strode the rest of the way to his office.
His muscles twitched. He could manage this ranch with one hand tied behind his back, but he couldn’t hold his daughter for even one minute without scaring her so much she shrieked in fear. Somehow, someday, he needed to change that, but he didn’t know how to do it.
