Billionaire's Secret
When the secrets of the past won’t stay buried!Once the heart-throb of the social circuit, gorgeous Nicolo Chatsfield now lives alone, with only his painful past as his companion. No one dares get close to Nicolo, or reach out to his dark and tormented soul… Until a glimmer of hope enters his lonely world and lightens the shadows… Sophie has had her fair share of suffering too and she doesn’t want to heal Nicolo, she just wants him to attend a meeting! But nothing prepares her for the darkly compelling man she meets and soon Sophie finds herself under Nicolo’s spell, easing his pain in the most pleasurable way!Welcome to Chatsfield House!
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âI have to warn you that youâll be wasting your time, Miss Ashdown. I have no intention of being Christos Giatrakosâs puppet.â
âAll Iâm asking is that you listen to me whilst I convince you to come to the shareholders meeting.â
Sophie took Nicoloâs silence as agreement. âWhich bedroom should I sleep in?â she asked breezily. âAs we are going to be house-mates, maybe you could drop the Miss Ashdown and call me Sophie?â
âHouse-mates!â Nicoloâs eyes glinted. âDonât push your luckâSophie.â
Dio, he had never met a woman so determined to have her own way! For some inexplicable reason Nicoloâs eyes were drawn to Sophie Ashdownâs mouth. Her lips were soft and moist and temptingly kissable and he found himself imagining crushing her mouth beneath his own and kissing her until she was in no doubt that he was master of Chatsfield House.
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Synonymous with style, sensation ⦠and scandal!
For years, the children of Gene Chatsfieldâglobal hotel entrepreneurâhave shocked the worldâs media with their exploits. But no longer! When Gene appoints a new CEO, Christos Giatrakos, to bring his children into line, little did he know what he was starting.
Christosâ first command scatters the Chatsfields to the furthest reaches of their international holdingsâfrom Las Vegas to Monte Carlo, Sydney to San Francisco ⦠but will they rise to the challenge set by a man who hides dark secrets in his past?
Let the games begin!
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CHANTELLE SHAW lives on the Kent coast, five minutes from the sea, and does much of her thinking about the characters in her books while walking on the beach. An avid reader from an early age, she found that school friends used to hide their books when she visited, but Chantelle would retreat into her own world and she still writes stories in her head all the time.
Chantelle has been blissfully married to her own tall, dark and very patient hero for over twenty years and has six children. She began to read Mills & Boon>® romance novels as a teenager and, throughout the years of being a stay-at-home mum to her brood, she found romance fiction helped her to stay sane! Her aim is to write books that provide an element of escapism, fun and of course romance for the countless women who juggle work and a home life and who need their precious moments of âmeâ time. She enjoys reading and writing about strong-willed, feisty women and even stronger-willed sexy heroes. Chantelle is at her happiest when writing. She is particularly inspired while cooking dinner, which unfortunately results in a lot of culinary disasters! She also loves gardening, taking her very badly behaved terrier for walks and eating chocolate (followed by more walkingâat least the dog is slim!).
For Adrian,
Thank you for thirty-five wonderful years together and for your support, encouragement and occasional tear-mopping through twenty-five books!
All my love, Chantelle
Table of Contents
SO MUCH FOR modern technology, Sophie thought as she pulled over to the side of the road and switched off the engine. Despite following the satellite navigation systemâs directions she was hopelessly lost. The rolling landscape of the Chiltern Hills was spread out before her, but there was not a farmhouse or even a barn in sight, let alone an enormous stately home.
The country lane she had been sent down was so narrow that she shuddered to think what would happen if she met a vehicle travelling in the opposite direction. Sighing, she reached for the map on the seat beside her and climbed out of the car. At any other time she would have enjoyed the view of the English countryside in midsummer. The fields were lush and green beneath a cornflower-blue sky and the hedgerow on either side of the lane blazed with a colourful profusion of wild flowers. But Sophie was not on a sightseeing trip. Christos had sent her to Buckinghamshire to carry out a specific task and she was impatient to get on with it.
When she had set out from London two hours ago the weather had been beautiful. But now, although the sun was still shining, the air was strangely oppressive. Glancing over her shoulder, her heart sank when she saw ominous dark clouds on the horizon. Terrific! A storm was all she needed when she was stuck in the middle of nowhere. For a moment she thought the rumbling sound she could hear was thunder, but to her relief she saw a tractor trundling up the lane towards her.
