A warm welcome to all our readers; itâs cold outside, but the books Harlequin Presents has got for you in January will leave you positively glowing!
Raise your temperature with two right royal reads! The Sheikhâs Innocent Bride, by top author Lynne Graham, whisks you away to the blazing dunes of the desert in a classic tale of a proud sheikhâs desire for the young woman employed to clean his castle. Meanwhile, Robyn Donald is back with another compelling Bagaton story in The Royal Baby Bargain, the latest installment in her immensely popular New Zealand-based BY ROYAL COMMAND miniseries.
Want the thermostat turned up? Then why not travel with us to the glorious Greek islands, where Bought by the Greek Tycoon, by favorite author Jacqueline Baird, promises searing emotional scenes and nights of blistering passion, and Susan Stephensâs Virgin for Saleâthe first title in our steamy new miniseries UNCUTâsees an uptight businesswoman learning what it is to feel pleasure in the hands of a real man!
For Cathy Williams fans, thereâs a new winter warmer: in At the Italianâs Command, the heart of a notoriously cool, workaholic tycoon is finally melted by a frumpy but feisty journalist. And try turning the pages of rising star Melanie Milburneâs latest releaseâBack in her Husbandâs Bed, about a marriage rekindled in sunny Sydney, Australia, is almost too hot to handle!
For a full list of titles and book numbers, see inside the front cover (opposite)âand enjoy!
All about the authorâ¦
Jacqueline Baird
Jacqueline was born and raised in Northumbria, U.K. She met her husband when she was eighteen. Eight years later, after many adventures around the world, she came home and married him. They still live in Northumbria and have two grown-up sons.
Jacquelineâs number one passion is writing. She has always been an avid reader and she had her first success as a writer at the age of eleven, when she won first prize in the Nature Diary of the Year competition at school. But she always felt a little guilty because her diary was more fiction than fact.
She always loved romance novels and when her sons went to school all day, she thought she would try writing one. Sheâs been writing for Harlequin Presents ever since, and she still gets a thrill every time a new book is published.
When Jacqueline is not busy writing, she likes to spend her time traveling, reading and playing cards. She was a keen sailor until a knee injury ended her sailing days, but she still enjoys swimming in the sea when the weather allows.
She visits a gym three times a week and has made the surprising discovery that she gets some good ideas while doing the mind-numbingly boring exercises on the cycling and weight machines.
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
EPILOGUE
JEMMA BARNES, pencil in hand, doodled in the notebook in front of her on the table, paying little attention to the conversation going on around her. Her father, MD of the company Vanity Flair, had insisted that she attend this board meeting now that she was heir to her late Aunt Maryâs estate, and therefore now one of the principal shareholders in the company. She had no idea why he wanted her thereâstock flotations and the like were a foreign language to her. In fact, she had enough trouble coping with the monetary side of her own businessâas Liz, her best friend and partner in the florist shop they jointly owned in Chelsea, would readily confirm!
âJemma?â The strident tones of her fatherâs voice cut through her reverie. âDo you agree?â
Lifting her head, she realised the dozen or so people around the table were all staring at her. Her amber eyes clashed with the twinkling brown ones of the man oppositeâa Mr Devetzi from Greece. Her father had introduced Jemma to him earlier and she rather liked the old man. Apparently he had once met her aunt Mary at her holiday home on the island of Zanteâthe same place that Jemma had spent her last holiday with her aunt. It wasnât a holiday she liked to recall for a variety of reasonsâone being that her aunt had died a few months later.
Now a hint of a smile played around the old manâs mouth, and she knew heâd realised from her panicked expression that she had no idea of the question. His smile broadened reassuringly, and with a wink and a nod of his white head he gave her the answer.
âYes, of course, Father,â Jemma agreed, and the meeting ended.
âWhy on earth didnât you get in touch with me?â Luke Devetzi demanded forcibly in Greek, and stared down at his grandfather, lounging back on the sofa with one heavily bandaged ankle propped up on a footstool. âYou know I would have come the minute you called.â He raked frustrated fingers through his dark hair. âAnd what are you doing in London anyway? After your last heart scare I seem to recall your doctor forbidding you to travel.â