About the Author
Four-time RITA® Award nominee JOANNE ROCK has penned over seventy stories for Mills & Boon. An optimist by nature and a perpetual seeker of silver linings, Joanne finds romance fits her life outlook perfectly â love is worth fighting for. A former Golden Heart® Award recipient, she has won numerous awards for her stories. Learn more about Joanneâs imaginative Muse by visiting her website, www.joannerock.com, or following @joannerock6 on Twitter.
ISBN: 978-1-474-09300-2
WHAT THE MAGNATE WANTS
The Magnateâs Mail-Order Bride © 2017 Joanne Rock The Magnateâs Marriage Merger © 2017 Joanne Rock His Accidental Heir © 2017 Joanne Rock
Published in Great Britain 2018
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A mix-and-match mock engagement?
Ballerina Sofia Koslovâs career is on the line when sheâs accosted at the airport by a rich, reckless playboy who thinks sheâs his mail-order bride! But the playboyâs levelheaded brother, Quinn McNeill, solves the media snafu with a switcheroo. Heâll pretend to be her legitimate fiancé to protect her reputationâand to protect his familyâs business deals from her fatherâs wrath. Sofiaâs one condition: theyâll share the spotlight as a loving couple but wonât share a bed. But soon Quinnâs gentlemanly ways strike a chord, and Sofiaâs dying to renege on that condition and have a real fling...
To Maureen Wallace, the empathetic and efficient
property manager on-site at the vacation rental where I finished this book. When construction work outside my rental made writing impossible, Maureen listened to my tale of woe and found another spot for me, making sure I could get work done the next day and have a gorgeous water view to boot! Thank you for going above and beyond to help.
One
âItâs no wonder her performances lack passion. Have you ever seen Sofia date anyone in all the time weâve known her?â
Normally, Sofia Koslov didnât eavesdrop. Yet hearing the whispered gossip stopped her in her tracks as she headed from the Gulfstreamâs kitchen back to her seat for landing.
A principal dancer in the New York City Ballet, Sofia had performed a brief engagement with a small dance ensemble in Kiev last week. Her colleagues had been all too glad to join her when her wealthy father had offered his private plane for their return to the United States. But apparently the favor hadnât won her any new allies. As one of the most rapidly promoted female dancers currently in the company, Sofiaâs successes had ruffled feathers along the way.
She clutched her worn copy of A Midsummer Nightâs Dream to her chest and peered toward her fatherâs seat at the front of the jet, grateful he was still engrossed in a business teleconference call. Vitaly Koslov had accompanied the troupe on the trip to the Ukraine, his birthplace. Heâd used their rare time together as an opportunity to pressure Sofia about settling down and providing him with grandchildren who might be more interested in taking over his global empire than sheâd been.