One Passionate Night: Her Brooding Italian Boss / The Heiress's Secret Baby / Best Friend to Wife and Mother?
Her Brooding Italian Boss by Susan Meier Pregnant and broke, Laura Beth must take a job with Antonio Bartulocci. He may be darkly handsome, but the fiery Italian proves to be a difficult boss!The Heiress’s Secret Baby by Jessica GilmorePolly Rafferty did not expect the utterly gorgeous Gabe Beaufils to be lying in her office! And, after sharing an earth-shattering kiss, she discovers that he’s the new vice-CEO…Best Friend to Wife and Mother? by Caroline AndersonLeo Zaccharelli is Amy Driver’s best friend. Yet when they escape to Tuscany, Amy’s eyes are opened to the joys of being a mother…and a wife!
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SUSAN MEIER is the author of over fifty books for Mills & Boon. The Tycoon’s Secret Daughter was a RITA® finalist and Nanny for the Millionaire’s Twins won the Book Buyers’ Best award and was a finalist in the National Readers’ Choice awards. She is married and has three children. One of eleven siblings, she loves to write about the complexity of families and totally believes in the power of love
An ex au-pair, bookseller, marketing manager and sea-front trader, JESSICA GILMORE now works for an environmental charity in York. Married with one daughter, one fluffy dog and two dog-loathing cats, she spends her time avoiding housework and can usually be found with her nose in a book. Jessica writes emotional romance with a hint of humour, a splash of sunshine and a great deal of delicious food—and equally delicious heroes.
CAROLINE ANDERSON describes herself: ‘Mother, writer, armchair gardener, unofficial tearoom researcher and eater of lovely cakes. Not necessarily in that order. I love my family, my friends, reading, writing contemporary love stories, hearing from readers, walks by the sea with coffee/ice-cream/cake thrown in, torrential rain, sunshine in spring/autumn. What I hate: revising manuscripts, losing my pets, fighting with my family, cold weather, hot weather, computers, clothes-shopping. My plans? To keep smiling and writing!’
One Passionate Night
Her Brooding Italian Boss
Susan Meier
The Heiress’s Secret Baby
Jessica Gilmore
Best Friend to Wife and Mother?
Caroline Anderson
ISBN: 978-1-474-08137-5
ONE PASSIONATE NIGHT
Her Brooding Italian Boss © 2015 Linda Susan Meier The Heiress’s Secret Baby © 2015 Jessica Gilmore Best Friend To Wife And Mother? © 2015 Caroline Anderson
Published in Great Britain 2018
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Table of Contents
Susan Meier
LAURA BETH MATTHEWS sat on the rim of the old porcelain tub in the New York City apartment she had to vacate by the next morning. Her long brown hair had been swirled into a sophisticated French twist. Her lilac organza bridesmaid gown was an original Eloise Vaughn design. A pregnancy test shook in her right hand.
Tears pooled in her eyes. There was no question now. She was going to have a baby.
“Laura Beth! Come on!” Eloise called from the hall as she knocked on the bathroom door. “I’m the bride! I should at least get ten minutes in the bathroom to check my makeup.”
“Sorry!” She swiped at her tears and quickly examined her face in the medicine cabinet mirror. No real mascara smudges yet, but the day was young.
For the first time since she, Eloise and their third original roommate, Olivia Prentiss Engle, had decided to spend the night before Eloise’s wedding together and dress together, Laura Beth regretted it. She was pregnant. The father of her child, one of Olivia’s husband’s vice presidents, had called her a slut when she’d told him she was late and they might be parents. And now she didn’t just have to smile her way through a wedding; she had to hide a pregnancy test in a tiny bathroom.
