âHunterâs emotionally rich tale will make readers laugh and cry along with the characters. A truly fantastic read.â
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Revealed: A Prince and a Pregnancy
âThis is a dynamite story of a once-forbidden relationship, featuring two terrific characters who have to deal with the past before they can finally be together.â
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Exposed: Misbehaving with the Magnate
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About Kelly Hunter
Accidentally educated in the sciences, KELLY HUNTER has always had a weakness for fairytales, fantasy worlds and losing herself in a good book. Husband ⦠yes. Children ⦠two boys. Cooking and cleaning ⦠sigh. Sports ⦠no, not reallyâin spite of the best efforts of her family. Gardening ⦠yes. Roses, of course. Kelly was born in Australia and has travelled extensively. Although she enjoys living and working in different parts of the world, she still calls Australia home.
Kellyâs novels Sleeping Partner and Revealed: A Prince and a Pregnancy were both finalists for the Romance Writers of America RITA>® Award, in the Best Contemporary Series Romance category!
Visit Kelly online at www.kellyhunter.net
CHRISTMAS was commerce and retail excess. Christmas was family and sometimes it was farce.
Add to the day a wide-open wallet and a city bathed in neon and the memory of a Hong Kong Christmas burned brightly for ever. Ruby Maguireâborn to riches and living in Hong Kong for over six years nowâknew this from experience. Which meant that she should have been able to organise a perfectly splendid Christmas for the children of one of Hong Kongâs foremost investment bankers in her sleep.
A trip to Hong Kong Disney or Ocean Park. A holographic Christmas tree or three. More presents than they knew what to do with, a mad mix of Christmas lanterns and fake winter wonderlands and, if Santa was really on the ball, maybe their charming, handsome, super-important father would put in an appearance and make their day.
Except that the West children were all grown up these days, and, from the snippets of information Russell Westâs executive PA had let slip, Russellâs eldest son was unlikely to be in attendance, his firstborn daughter was recovering from serious injury, his other daughter was a reclusive genius, and his fourth-bornâanother sonâwas either a crime lord, a charming wastrel or James Bond.
So much for taking them to Disneyland.
Instead, Ruby had decked the halls of Russell Westâs pristine marble penthouse with as much high-class folly as she could find. White orchids; real ones. Poinsettias; silk ones. Tapered white candles just waiting to be lit and more fat goldfish for the glass-covered pond. The pond ran beneath the base of the stairs and along the atrium wall until it reached the tiny rooftop terrace where the songbirds reigned supreme. The only thing missing from the scene was a pet cricket in a bamboo cage. For Australian-born Russell West, owning a pet cricket was taking cultural assimilation one chirrup too far.
December twenty-second already, with the three younger West siblings due to arrive tomorrow. Upon arrival they would find immaculately prepared rooms, festive touches in the strangest places, and reservations for one of Hong Kongâs premier restaurants, should they wish to dine out.
Ruby wasnât a housekeeper or a cook, though her current job strayed into such territory at times. She far preferred to think of herself as Russell Westâs social accountantâa position created just for her, out of pity most likely, but sheâd tried to make herself useful, and the hefty bonus Russell had just presented her with gave credence to the notion that he thought her service of value.
She wrote Russellâs charity dinner speeches, briefed him on the changes in status of Hong Kongâs elite, and basically made his social engagements as stress-free and fruitful as possible.
Rubyâs latest challenge had been the buying of Christmas gifts for the children of Russellâs employeesâan endeavour she had seen to with pleasure. Furthermore, Russell now had an up-to-date database citing the names, birthdates and interests of his employeesâ spouses and children. Sheâd even done one for the wives and children of his major business contacts. Whether Russell would use the information remained to be seen.
Trust a financial wizard to pay absolutely no attention whatsoever to the little things that went such a long way towards the cultivation of solid business relationships in Hong Kong.