Rags To Riches Baby
The woman he doesn’t trust is having his baby…When Lucy Campbell inherits a multi-million-dollar Manhattan estate, Oliver Drake sees only a gold-digger. But even with battle lines drawn, CEO Oliver can’t resist bedding the very woman he’s trying to expose!
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The woman he can never trust is having his baby...
When Lucy Campbell inherits a multimillion-dollar Manhattan estate, her employerâs nephew sees only a gold-digging scammer. But even with battle lines drawn, CEO Oliver Drake canât resist the temptation of bedding the very woman heâs trying to expose! Then Lucy delivers her shocking baby news. Does she genuinely desire a future together? Or is it another ploy that could destroy Oliverâs trust forever?
ANDREA LAURENCE is an award-winning author of contemporary romances filled with seduction and sass. She has been a lover of reading and writing stories since she was young. A dedicated West Coast girl transplanted into the Deep South, she is thrilled to share her special blend of sensuality and dry, sarcastic humor with readers.
Also available by Andrea Laurence
Snowed In with Her Ex
Thirty Days to Win His Wife
One Week with the Best Man
A White Wedding Christmas
What Lies Beneath
More Than He Expected
His Loverâs Little Secret
The CEOâs Unexpected Child
Little Secrets: Secretly Pregnant
The Pregnancy Proposition
The Baby Proposal
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ISBN: 978-1-474-07617-3
RAGS TO RICHES BABY
© 2018 Andrea Laurence
Published in Great Britain 2018
by Mills & Boon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF
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To Dr. Shelleyâ
Thanks for dusting off your MoMA catalog and helping
me navigate the modern art references for this book. I never wouldâve found those pieces on my own. I also never expected to find myself watching a YouTube video of naked women in blue paint pressing against a canvas while a string quartet played. Your suggestions were perfect for the book! Thank you!
Contents
âAnd to Lucy Campbell, my assistant and companion, I bequeath the remainder of my estate, including the balances of my accounts and financial holdings and the whole of my personal effects, which entails my art collection and my apartment on Fifth Avenue.â
When the attorney stopped reading the will of Alice Drake aloud, the room was suddenly so quiet Lucy wondered if the rest of the Drake family had dropped dead as well at the unexpected news. She kept waiting for the lawyer to crack a smile and tell the crowd of people around the conference room table that he was just kidding. It seemed highly inappropriate to do to a grieving family, though.
Surely, he had to be kidding. Lucy was no real estate expert, but Aliceâs apartment alone had to be worth over twenty million dollars. It overlooked the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It had four bedrooms and a gallery with a dozen important works, including an original Monet, hanging in it. Lucy couldnât afford the monthly association fees for the co-op, much less own an apartment like that in Manhattan.
âAre you serious?â a sharp voice cut through the silence at last.
Finally, someone was asking the question that was on the tip of her own tongue. Lucy turned toward the voice and realized it was her best friend Harper Drakeâs brother, Oliver. Harper had helped Lucy get this job working for her great-aunt, but sheâd never met Harperâs brother before today. Which was odd, considering sheâd cared for their aunt for over five years.
