Lone Star Prince

Letter to ReaderTitle PageDedicationAbout the Author“What’s Happening in Royal?”PrologueChapter OneChapter TwoChapter ThreeChapter FourChapter FiveChapter SixChapter SevenChapter EightChapter NineChapter TenChapter ElevenEpilogueCopyright

This month, in LONE STAR PRINCE

by Cindy Gerard, meet Gregory Hunt— a lawyer extraordinaire who hides his vulnerability behind cynical eyes. Until he rescues the one woman he could never forget, Princess Anna von Oberland—a royal, regal beauty whose son bears a striking resemblance to our hero!

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Five wealthy Texas bachelors—all members of the state’s most exclusive club—set out on a mission to rescue a princess...and find true love.

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The thrilling Desire miniseries TEXAS CATTLEMAN’S CLUB concludes with Lone Star Prince by Cindy Gerard. Her Royal Princess Anna von Oberland finally reunites with the dashing attorney Gregory Hunt who fathered her child years ago.

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Lone Star Prince

Cindy Gerard

www.millsandboon.co.uk

This book is dedicated to the ladies of the Club, Dixie Browning.

Caroline Cross, Peggy Moreland and Metsy Hingle. Ladies—it’s been a treat. I’m so glad I was along for the ride!

Special thanks to Leanne Banks, Susan Connell and

Glenna McReynolds for their friendship, their extraordinary insights and their unflagging generosity. I love you guys.

Special thanks and acknowledgment are given to Cindy Gerard

for her contribution to the Texas Cattleman’s Club series

CINDY GERARD

If asked “What’s your idea of heaven?” Cindy Gerard would say a warm sun, a cool breeze, pan pizza and a good book. If she had to settle for one of the four, she’d opt for the book, with the pizza running a close second. Inspired by the pleasure she’s received from the books she’s read and her longtime love affair with her husband, Tom, Cindy now creates her own warm, evocative stories about compelling characters and complex relationships.

All that reading must have paid off, because since winning the Waldenbooks Award for Best Selling Series Romance for a First-Time Author, Cindy has gone on to win the prestigious Colorado Romance Writers’ Award of Excellence, Romantic Times Magazine W.I.S.H. awards, Career Achievement and Reviewers’ Choice nominations and the Romance Writers of America’s RITA Award nomination for Best Short Contemporary Romance.

“What’s Happening in Royal?”

NEWS FLASH, December 1999—Rumors are running rampant about town that an actual royal princess may be in our midst! There have been unconfirmed reports that Princess Anna von Oberland is missing from her European country of Obersbourg, and may be hiding out in our own Royal, TX. Imagine...a princess in Royal—who would’ve “thunk” it?

Could our rugged Texas Cattleman’s Club members know the whereabouts of Her Royal Highness?

There are those who say that Gregory Hunt—hotshot attorney, Cattleman’s Club member and most eligible of bachelors—may have more than a passing interest in the lovely Princess Anna. In fact, rumor has it that they shared a passionate tryst years ago in her far-off land....

Will the princess be discovered here... and rumors be put to rest? Please stay tuned!

Prologue

September 5th, 2:00 a.m.

Somewhere over the Atlantic

Hollywood couldn’t have staged a more dicey plot An evil prince. A beautiful princess in his clutches. A midnight rescue by an ex-marine and ex-lover, charging in to save the day.

Trouble was, this wasn’t Hollywood. It was all too real, and as Greg Hunt stared grimly across the cabin of the private jet bound for the States, he hadn’t yet decided if he was the hero or the chump in this little melodrama.