An Unexpected Christmas Baby
She’s not looking for the love of her life… Tamara Owens has been tapped to discover who’s been stealing from her family business. Suspect number one: tantalising top trader Flint Collins, who’s suddenly thrust into fatherhood when his orphaned baby sister arrives. And Flint is soon under Tamara’s spell…
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Sheâs searching for the man defrauding her father.
Not for the love of her life.
Itâs not such a merry Christmas for Tamara Owens, tapped to discover whoâs been stealing from her family business. Suspect number one: tantalizing top trader Flint Collins, whoâs suddenly thrust into fatherhood when his orphaned baby sister arrives. Tamaraâs sworn off babies forever, but she has the magic touch with infant Diamond. And Flint, too, is soon under her spell...at least until he finds out the truth.
Having written over eighty-five novels, TARA TAYLOR QUINN is a USA TODAY bestselling author with more than seven million copies sold. She is known for deliver-ing intense, emotional fiction. Tara is a past president of Romance Writers of America. She has won a Readersâ Choice Award and is a seven-time finalist for an RWA RITA® Award. She has also appeared on TV across the country, including CBS Sunday Morning. She supports the National Domestic Violence Hotline. If you or some-one you know might be a victim of domestic violence in the United States, please contact 1-800-799-7233.
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ISBN: 978-1-474-07837-5
AN UNEXPECTED CHRISTMAS BABY
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Published in Great Britain 2018
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For my mom, Penny Gumser, who is
still showing me the meaning of the word mother. And who still reads every word I publish. I love you!
Contents
âDearly Beloved, we are gathered here todayââ
The ceremony had been a dumb idea.
ââAlana Gold Collins to rest. The Father tells usââ
Hands together at his belt buckle, Flint Collins stared down past the crease in his black pants to the tips of his shiny black shoes. Alana Gold. Such a lofty name. Like a movie star or something.
Alana Gold. Not much about his motherâs life had been golden. Except her hair, he supposed. Back when sheâd been young and pretty. Before the hard life, the drugs and prison had had their way with her.
ââall will be changed at the last sounding of the bell...â
The Father might have imparted that message. The Bible surely did, according to the preacher heâd hired to give his mother a funeral. Dearly Beloved, heâd said. That would be Flint. The dearly beloved. All one of him.
Heâd never known any other family. Didnât even know who his father was.
Footsteps sounded behind him and he stiffened. Heâd asked her to comeâthe caseworker heâd only met two days before. To do the...exchange.
Dearly Beloved. In her own way Alana had loved Flint deeply. Just as, he was absolutely certain, sheâd loved the âinheritanceâ sheâd left him. One he hadnât known about. One he hadnât yet seen. One that had arrived behind him.
