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âKate Hardyâs ONE NIGHT, ONE BABY is a terrific attraction-at-first-sight story. Heâs hot, sexy and vulnerable, and sheâs patient because, in the end, she knows heâll be worth it.â
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âKate Hardy is a writer readers can count on in order to deliver an entertaining page-turner which they will devour in a single sitting. BREAKFAST AT GIOVANNIâS is certainly no exception, so take the phone off the hook, put your feet up and lose yourself.â
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âLydia.â He touched the back of his fingers lightly against her cheek. âI think we need to talk.â
Uh-oh. Here it came.
âI need to be fair with you, Lydia. Whatever this thing is between usâand I canât explain it eitherâI canât offer you a future. But thereâs no reason why we canât have a mad fling and blow each otherâs minds for the next few days. Well, apart from the fact that Iâm your boss, and ethically that makes this completely wrong.â
But at that precise moment he couldnât give a damn about ethics.
The only thing that filled his head was the need to touch her again.
âI have a suggestion.â He paused. âWe spend a week here. Together. And this thing between usâ¦we can get it out of our systems.â
âYouâre saying we should have an affair?â
âWith limits. So we know the deal right from the start.â
âAn affair,â she repeated. âFor a week. A seven-night stand.â
âPut like that, it sounds tacky.â He grimaced. âIâm trying not to be dishonourable. I canât offer you more than an affair, Lydia. I canât offer anyone more than that.â
She licked her lower lip, and he almost lost control again.
âThis is mad,â she whispered. âYouâre my boss.â
Dear Reader
Iâve always, always wanted to see the Northern Lightsâever since I was a tiny child. Iâve seen pictures and films, but the real thing must be amazing. Iâd dearly love to visit the Arctic Circle on a February night (thatâs the best time for seeing the lights), to see the heavens shimmering among the stars.
Lydia, my heroine, shares this dream. But the man who can make it come true for her is a workaholic who refuses to commit to a relationship: Mr Wrong. Or is he? When they agree to spend a week in Norway together it teaches them a lot about themselves, about love, and about possibilities. Not to mention discovering a passion that could melt the ice hotel!
I thoroughly enjoyed discovering the glamorous side of Norway: the art and architecture, the history and the amazing ice hotels. And I did some physical research, too: while I was writing the book the UK had its coldest snap for years, so when I fed the birds in my back garden I could experience precisely what the temperature was like inside an ice hotel. My daughter was delighted to help me cook and taste-test Norwegian waffles, and we all went to see some reindeer. And that set me thinking about the perfect fairytale wedding in a land of ice and snowâ¦
Iâm always delighted to hear from readers, so do come and visit me at www.katehardy.com
With love
Kate Hardy
Kate Hardy lives in Norwich, in the east of England, with her husband, two young children, and too many books to count! When sheâs not busy writing romance or researching local history, she helps out at her childrenâs schools; sheâs a school governor and chair of the PTA. She also loves cookingâsee if you can spot the recipes sneaked into her books! (Theyâre also on her website, along with extracts and stories behind the books.)
Writing for Mills & Boon has been a dream come true for Kateâsomething she wanted to do ever since she was twelve. Sheâs been writing Mills & Boon>® Medical⢠Romances for nearly five years now, and also writes for Modern Heatâ¢. She says itâs the best of both worlds because she gets to learn lots of new things when sheâs researching the background to a book: add a touch of passion, drama and danger, a new gorgeous hero every time, and itâs the perfect job!
Kate is always delighted to hear from readers, so do visit her at www.katehardy.com
TEMPORARY BOSS, PERMANENT MISTRESS
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Recent titles by the same author:
Modern Heatâ¢
PLAYBOY BOSS, PREGNANCY OF PASSION (To Tame a Playboy duet)
SURRENDER TO THE PLAYBOY SHEIKH (To Tame a Playboy duet)
Medical⢠Romance
THE CHILDRENâS DOCTORâS SPECIAL PROPOSAL (The London Victoria duet)
THE GREEK DOCTORâS NEW-YEAR BABY (The London Victoria duet)
For Nicola Cornickâwhose friendship and books I value enormouslyâwith thanks for letting me grill her about her own Arctic Circle adventure.
âMATT rang in first thing this morning. The kids have brought a bug home from school and heâs been throwing up practically all nightâhe doesnât think heâll be back until Friday at the earliest,â Judith explained apologetically.
It was much better that the head of the legal department should stay at home rather than struggle into work and share the virus with his colleagues. Jake had no problem with that. He didnât bother asking about Adam, because he already knew where Mattâs second in command was. On paternity leave.