JOSS WOODâS passion for putting black letters on a white screen is only matched by her love of books and travelling (especially to the wild places of southern Africa) and, possibly, by her hatred of ironing and making school lunches.
Joss has written over sixteen books for the Mills & Boon KISS, Mills & Boon Presents and, most recently, Mills & Boon Desire lines.
After a career in business lobbying and local economic development, Joss now writes full-time. She lives in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, with her husband and two teenage children, surrounded by family, friends, animals and a ridiculous amount of books.
Joss is a member of the RWA (Romance Writers of America) and ROSA (Romance Writers of South Africa).
Maverick Millionaires
Trapped with the Maverick Millionaire
Pregnant by the Maverick Millionaire
Married to the Maverick Millionaire
Joss Wood
www.millsandboon.co.uk
ISBN: 978-1-474-08140-5
MAVERICK MILLIONAIRES
Trapped with the Maverick Millionaire © 2016 Joss Wood Pregnant by the Maverick Millionaire © 2016 Joss Wood Married to the Maverick Millionaire © 2016 Joss Wood
Published in Great Britain 2018
by Mills & Boon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF
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Basically, you rock!
Prologue
Rory Kydd, dressed in a too-small T-shirt and battered pajama bottoms, walked into the kitchen of her sisterâs luxurious kitchen and looked at the dark screen of the TV sitting on the counter.
Her best friend, Troy, had texted to tell her the Vancouver Mavericks had won and there had been high drama during the post-game interview. She was tempted to turn on the TV to see what he was talking about but, because she had a paper due and exams loomingâand because she was trying not to think about one Maverick player in particularâshe decided to have a cup of coffee and go back to the books. But even if she didnât give in to temptation, it couldnât be denied, team newbies Kade Webb, Quinn Rayne and Mark âMacâ McCaskill were a handful both on and off the ice, and Vancouver had three new heroes.
Three young, unfairly talented and, it had to be said, stupidly good-looking heroes.
And the best-looking of the bunch, in her opinion, was dating her older sister Shay.
Rory poured herself a cup of coffee and leaned her butt against the counter. Shay and Mac made perfect sense, she told herself. Again. Shay was a model and a TV presenter. Mac was the supertalented, superfine center for the cityâs beloved hockey team. They were the perfect age, she was twenty-three and Mac a year older, and, according to the press, because they were both beautiful and successful, a perfect match.
It was all perfectly perfect.
Except that Rory wasnât convinced.
And that wasnât because Mac made her toes tingle and her stomach jump. It had nothing to do with her insane attraction to the man. No, sheâd spent enough time around Shay and Mac to see the cracks in their relationship, to know the bloom was off the rose and Shay was acting like a loon. Judging by Macâs wary, closed-off expression whenever Rory saw them together, Shay had him on the Crazy Express.