Praise for Kate Hardyâs writing:
PLAYBOY BOSS, PREGNANCY OF PASSION âThis story features a strong heroine who gains strength from her family and a hero who realises the importance of love and family before itâs too late. Add in their captivating romance and it makes for one great read.â
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SURRENDER TO THE PLAYBOY SHEIKH
âSurrender yourself to this sexy and romantic attraction-at-first-sight story. Every aspect is spot-on, from the smoking-hot pair to the sensual step-by-step build-up as attraction turns to love. This hero is definitely a keeper!â
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âTHE GREEK DOCTORâS NEW-YEAR BABY is romantic storytelling at its best! Poignant, enjoyable and absolutely terrific, with THE GREEK DOCTORâS NEW-YEAR BABY Kate Hardy proves once again that when it comes to romantic fiction sheâs up there with the very best!â
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âKate Hardy never fails to deliver poignant, dramatic, realistic and heartwarming romantic fictionâ¦With its cast of wonderfully believable and fantastic characters, and plenty of powerful emotion and dramatic intensity, FALLING FOR THE PLAYBOY MILLIONAIRE is another dazzling keeper from one of the finest writers of high quality romantic fiction: Kate Hardy!â
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Allegra was too stunned to say a word.
At twenty-one Xavier Lefèvre had been a good-looking boy. At thirty-one he was all man. His olive skin made his grey-green eyes seem even more piercing, and he had the beginnings of lines round his eyes, as if he smiled a lot or spent most of his time in the sun. His tousled dark hair was overlong; the style, she thought, was more in keeping with a rock star than a financial whiz-kid. And the fact that he hadnât shaved made him look as if heâd just got out of bed, leaving his lover asleep and totally satiated.
Just the sight of him made Allegra feel as if the temperature in the room had soared by ten degreesâshe could still remember just how it had felt to fall asleep in Xavâs arms, warm and satiated in the sunshine, after making love all afternoon.
Oh, hell. How was she supposed to think straight when the first thing that came into her mind where Xavier Lefèvre was concerned was sexâand the second thing was how much she still wanted him?
She needed her libido strapped into a straitjacket. Right now. Before it started wrestling with her common sense.
KATE HARDY lives in Norwich, in the east of England, with her husband, two children, one bouncy spaniel, and too many books to count! When sheâs not busy writing romance or researching local history, she also loves cookingâsee if you can spot the recipes sneaked into her books. (Theyâre also on her website, along with excerpts and the stories behind the books.)
Writing for Mills & Boon has been a dream come true for Kateâsomething she wanted to do ever since she was twelve. Sheâs been writing Medical⢠Romances since 2001, and also writes for Modern Heatâ¢; her novel BREAKFAST AT GIOVANNIâS won the Romantic Novelistsâ Associationâs Romance Prize in 2008. She says she loves what she does because she gets to learn lots of new things when sheâs researching the background to a book: add warmth, heart and passion, plus a new gorgeous hero every time, and itâs the perfect job!
Kateâs always delighted to hear from readers, so do drop in to her website at www.katehardy.com
Recent titles by the same author:
Modern Heatâ¢
GOOD GIRL OR GOLD-DIGGER?
TEMPORARY BOSS, PERMANENT MISTRESS
Medical⢠Romance
NEUROSURGEONâ¦AND MUM
THE DOCTORâS LOST-AND-FOUND BRIDE
For Maggieâwho helped me see the wood for the treesâwith love and thanks.
SHE was back.
Xavierâs heart beat just that little bit faster as he put down the phone to his lawyer.
This was ridiculous. He was completely over Allegra Beauchamp. Heâd been over her for years. So of course it wasnât nerves making his pulse race like this. It was angerâanger that she was planning to walk in after all this time and interfere. Heâd put his heart and soul into the vineyard for the last ten years, and he was damn sure he wasnât going to let her flounce in and ruin all his hard work.
He didnât trust her a single millimetre. Not any more. Quite apart from the way sheâd broken his heart, dumping him when heâd needed her most, she hadnât come back to support her great-uncleâthe man whoâd given her a home every summer while she was growing upâwhen heâd been old and frail and needed her. She hadnât even made it back to France for Harryâs funeral; but sheâd come straight back to claim her inheritance of fifteen hectares of top-quality vines and a big stone mas.
Her actions spoke volumes.
But in some ways it also made things easier. If Allegra was only interested in the money, then sheâd be happy to sell her half of the vineyard to him, despite what sheâd claimed to his lawyer this afternoon. Right now, she might have some romantic idea of what it was like to run a vineyard, but Xavier knew that as soon as she had a taste of the real thing sheâd run straight back to London. Just as she had ten years agoâexcept this time sheâd only be taking his money with her, not his heart. And this time heâd have no regrets.