The Maid's Spanish Secret
'You will come to Spain. You will marry me…' For sweet maid Poppy Harris, her one and only passionate experience was scorching and absolutely forbidden. She shouldn’t have succumbed to Spanish aristocrat Rico Montero’s tantalising seduction, but his touch was all-consuming… And it had nine-month consequences! Poppy believes they can never be anything more—until Rico appears on her doorstep, demanding his hidden daughter and determined to make Poppy his wife!
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“You will come to Spain. You will marry me...”
For sweet maid Poppy Harris, her one and only passionate experience was scorching and absolutely forbidden. She shouldn’t have succumbed to Spanish aristocrat Rico Montero’s tantalizing seduction, but his touch was all consuming...and had a nine-month consequence! Poppy believes they could never be anything more. Until Rico appears on her doorstep demanding his hidden daughter—and determined to make Poppy his wife!
Enjoy this intensely dramatic marriage of convenience!
Canadian DANI COLLINS knew in high school that she wanted to write romance for a living. Twenty-five years later, after marrying her high school sweetheart, having two kids with him, working at several generic office jobs and submitting countless manuscripts, she got The Call. Her first Mills & Boon novel won the Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best First in Series from RT Book Reviews. She now works in her own office, writing romance.
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ISBN: 978-1-474-08803-9
THE MAID’S SPANISH SECRET
© 2019 Dani Collins
Published in Great Britain 2019
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For my editor, Laurie Johnson, and the
wonderful team at Harlequin Mills & Boon in London.
Romance novels taught me to chase my dreams,
and writing for Mills & Boon Modern Romance
was a lifelong goal.
Thirty books in, I’m still astonished and eternally
grateful that you’ve made this dream come true for me.
Thank you.
Contents
Note to Readers
RICO MONTERO ARRIVED at his brother’s villa, two hours up the coast from Valencia, in seventy-three minutes. He’d been feeling cooped up in his penthouse, hungry for air. He had pulled his GTA Spano out of storage and tried to escape his own dark mood, not realizing the direction he took until he was pulled over for speeding.
Recognizing where he was, he told the officer he was on his way to see his brother—a means of name-dropping the entire family. The ploy had gotten him out of having his license suspended, but he still had to pay a fine.
Since he was literally in the neighborhood, he decided not to compound his crimes by lying. He rolled his way through Cesar’s vineyard to the modern home sprawled against a hillside.
He told himself he didn’t miss the vineyard he had owned with pride for nearly a decade—long before his brother had decided he had an interest in grapes and winemaking. Rico’s fascination with the process had dried up along with his interest in life in general. Selling that property had been a clean break from a time he loathed to dwell upon.
