The Hot-Headed Virgin: The Virgin's Price / The Greek's Virgin / The Italian Billionaire's Virgin
She won’t bend to his will – but will she give in to his seduction?The Virgin’s Price Melanie MilburneAustralian millionaire Bryn is looking for a wife quickly, conveniently and temporarily. Rebellious Mia is happy to accept. But Bryn is unaware of Mia’s very good reason for accepting his proposal and that he’s just employed a virgin to be his new bride! The Greek’s Virgin Trish MoreyWhen gorgeous Greek Alex set out to seduce Saskia, it was for revenge! Now she is back and Alex intends to finish what he started…for pleasure! But Saskia can’t forgive the man who nearly stole her innocence…or forget the stormy passion he rouses!The Italian Billionaire’s Virgin Christina HollisWhen her husband died Contessa Larissa was left with only a Tuscan palazzo to her name. Ruthless tycoon Antonio is determined to reclaim the property – even if that means seducing the beautiful, innocent Contessa.
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She’s feisty and independent – but he rousesa powerful passion in her…
The Hot-Headed Virgin
Three sizzling, compelling romances from three favourite Mills & Boon authors!
In May 2010 Mills & Boon bring
you two classic collections, each
featuring three favourite romances
by our bestselling authors
CLAIMED BY THE SICILIAN
by Kate Walker
Sicilian Husband, Blackmailed BrideThe Sicilian’s Red-Hot RevengeThe Sicilian’s Wife
THE HOT-HEADED VIRGIN
The Virgin’s Price by Melanie Milburne The Greek’s Virgin by Trish Morey The Italian Billionaire’s Virgin by Christina Hollis
The Virgin’s Price
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Melanie Milburne says: One of the greatest joys of being a writer is the process of falling in love with the characters and then watching as they fall in love with each other. I am an absolutely hopeless romantic. I fell in love with my husband on our second date and we even had a secret engagement, so you see it must have been destined for me to be a Mills & Boon author! The other great joy of being a romance writer is hearing from readers. You can hear all about the other things I do when I’m not writing and even drop me a line at: www. melaniemilburne.com.au.
Don’t miss Melanie Milburne’s exciting new novel, The Mélendez Forgotten Marriage, available in July 2010 from Mills & Boon® Modern™.
To my sisters, Coralie Margaret McNamara
and Jessie Isobel Bohannon. Thank you for your love
and support over the years. I love you both very dearly.
CHAPTER ONE
‘I CAN’T believe he wrote that about me!’ Mia threw the morning’s newspaper down in disgust, her grey eyes flashing with rage. ‘It’s the first real acting job I’ve had and he completely rubbishes it. My career will be over before it even starts.’
‘I wouldn’t take it too personally,’ Shelley said as she reloaded the café dishwasher. ‘Bryn Dwyer rubbishes just about everything. Did you hear him on drive-time radio yesterday? He made a complete fool of the person he was interviewing. It’s how he gets the ratings he does. You either love him or you hate him.’
‘Well, I hate him,’ Mia said with feeling. ‘I just wish I could have the chance to tell him to his arrogant, stuck-up face.’
‘Yeah, well, you never know your luck,’ Shelley said as she placed the washing powder in the compartment of the dishwasher. ‘He was in here three mornings in a row last week, each time with a different woman. You should have seen the way Tony gushed all over him as if he was royalty. I nearly puked.’
‘In here?’ Mia’s eyes began to sparkle with hope. ‘Bryn Dwyer?’
Shelley straightened from the dishwasher. ‘Listen, Mia, just remember you’ve only just started and Tony only gave you the job in the first place because I put in such a good word for you. If you so much as—’
‘One cappuccino and a double decaf latte on table seven.’ Tony Pretelli, the café owner, slapped the order on the counter and scooped up a plate of raisin toast on his way past. ‘And make it snappy. Our favourite celebrity is here again this morning.’
‘Uh-oh,’ Shelley said as she took a quick peek over the counter.
‘Who is it?’ Mia asked as she peered over Shelley’s shoulder. She whistled through her teeth when she caught a glimpse of a tall man with dark brown shiny hair and broad shoulders sitting chatting to an attractive brunette. ‘Well, I’ll be damned.’
Shelley grabbed her by the arm. ‘Don’t even think about it, Mia. You know what Tony’s like. He’ll fire you on the spot if you do anything to upset a customer, celebrity or not.’
Mia unpeeled the waitress’s fingers and, giving her a sugar-sweet smile, reached for the coffees the barista on duty had just made. ‘I think I’ll risk it just this once. Anyway, it will be worth it to get back at that pompous jerk for giving me such a bad review.’
Shelley winced as Mia swept past with the coffees. ‘I don’t think I can watch this…’
Mia sauntered up to the table where Bryn Dwyer was seated with his back to her. It was a very broad back, she couldn’t help noticing, and even though he was wearing a pale blue business shirt she could see the bunching of well-developed muscles through the expensive fabric. His shirt cuffs were rolled up at the wrists, revealing tanned forearms sprinkled with dark masculine hair, and an expensive silver watch on his left wrist. His hair was neither long nor short or straight or curly but somewhere in between, and was styled in a casual manner that suggested his long, tanned fingers had been used as its latest combing tool.
She didn’t need to see his face; it had been splashed on the cover of just about every women’s magazine for the past month as for the second year in a row he had been awarded the Bachelor of the Year title. His prime-time radio slot and popular weekly column in a Sydney broadsheet gave him the sort of fame and fortune most people only ever dreamed of, but even without that, he was a multimillionaire from some clever property investments he’d made all before he’d hit thirty-two or -three years or so ago.
