Rumours: The Billion-Dollar Brides: The Desert King's Blackmailed Bride (Brides for the Taking) / The Italian's One-Night Baby (Brides for the Taking) / Sold for the Greek's Heir (Brides for the Taking)
With this ring, he will claim what’s his! Arriving in the kingdom of Dharia clutching an ornate ring – the only link to her hidden past – Polly Dixon never expected to be arrested and deposited at the feet of King Rashad, the country’s formidable…and extremely sensual…ruler!*Ellie Dixon once rejected Rio Benedetti’s advances and the fiery Italian hasn’t forgotten the insult! Ellie’s arrival in Italy, bearing an antique ring and claiming to be the daughter of Rio’s godfather, reawakens his rage, and a devastating longing!*Years ago, Greek billionaire Jax Antanakos left Lucy Dixon heartbroken and – although he didn’t know it – pregnant! Lucy’s now making a new life with her daughter, yet when Jax sweeps back into her world, she cannot mask her desire!
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LYNNE GRAHAM was born in Northern Ireland and has been a keen romance reader since her teens. She is very happily married to an understanding husband who has learned to cook since she started to write! Her five children keep her on her toes. She has a very large dog who knocks everything over, a very small terrier who barks a lot, and two cats. When time allows, Lynne is a keen gardener.
Rumours: The Billion-Dollar Brides
The Desert King’s Blackmailed Bride
The Italian’s One-Night Baby
Sold for the Greek’s Heir
Lynne Graham
ISBN: 978-1-474-09719-2
RUMOURS: THE BILLION-DOLLAR BRIDES
The Desert King’s Blackmailed Bride © 2017 Lynne Graham The Italian’s One-Night Baby © 2017 Lynne Graham Sold for the Greek’s Heir © 2017 Lynne Graham
Published in Great Britain 2019
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Table of Contents
The Desert King’s Blackmailed Bride
Lynne Graham
With this ring...
When naive Polly Dixon lands in the desert kingdom of Dharia clutching an ornate ring—the only link to her hidden past—she never expected to be arrested and deposited at the feet of the country’s formidable ruler!
I thee blackmail!
King Rashad is suspicious of desirable Polly, but her possession of the ring has caught the imagination of his country. They believe that Polly is the bride he’s been waiting for, so Rashad begins a fiery sensual onslaught to melt away Polly’s resolve and have her begging to walk down the aisle!
KING RASHAD EL-AMIN QUARAISHI studied the photos spread across his office desk. Six feet three inches tall, he dominated most gatherings, having inherited his grandfather’s unusual height. Black-haired and possessed of long-lashed dark eyes, he had also inherited the perfect bone structure that had made his mother a renowned beauty in the Middle East. Indeed, his smouldering dark good looks continually inspired admiring comments on social media and he was greatly embarrassed by the fact.
‘A cornucopia of feminine perfection,’ his chief adviser, Hakim, remarked with fervour. ‘A new reign, a new queen and, we trust, a new dynasty! Truthfully, fortune will smile now on the fortunes of Dharia.’
Although his royal employer appeared somewhat less enthusiastic, he did not disagree. But then Rashad had always known that it was his duty to marry and father a child. Unfortunately it was not a project that inspired him. After all, he had married before and at a very young age and he knew the pitfalls. Living with a woman with whom he might not have the smallest thing in common would be stressful. Misunderstandings and personality clashes would abound in such a relationship and if the desired conception did not occur in record time the stress would multiply and the unhappiness and dissatisfaction would settle in.
