Theseus Discovers His Heir
The Prince’s secret love child!Shocking news has rocked the Mediterranean principality of Agon. Prince Theseus – second in line to the throne – is rumoured to have fathered a secret love child.Reports surfaced the moment stunning royal biographer Joanne Brooks was hired to memorialise King Astraeus’s reign. But it seems she’s brought more than pens and paper!Witnesses suggest that five years ago our one-time bad boy Prince travelled the world in disguise and met Joanne Brooks as engineer ‘Theo Patakis’. This reporter wants to know how Ms Brooks will react when our commanding Prince wants to claim his child and his bride!
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Joanneâs head buzzed and burned, every pulse in her body hammering.
Working frantically, she clicked through dozens of pictures until she found one that showed him alone. She enlarged it.
It was him.
For an age she did nothing but hold her son so tightly she could feel the thrum of his little heart vibrate through his back.
How was it possible?
No wonder her five years of searching for Theo had been fruitless. Sheâd assumed living in the age of social media would make it an easy task, but had been foiled at every turn. It hadnât stopped her looking. Sheâd never given up hope of finding him.
But she might have searched for a thousand years and would still never have found him. The man sheâd been seeking didnât exist.
It had all been a big fat lie.
Tobyâs father wasnât Theo Patakis, an engineer from Athens. He was Theseus Kalliakis. A prince.
You are formally invited to the Jubilee Gala of His Majesty King Astraeus of Agon as he commemorates 50 years on the throne. Join us as we celebrate
Royal by birth, ruthless by nature
This warrior nationâs fierce PrincesâTalos, Theseus and Heliosâeach have their own special gift to give their grandfather, the King. But none of them is expecting the three women who challenge their plans ⦠and steal their hearts!
Discover the passion behind the palace doors ⦠watch as destinies are forged ⦠and get swept up in a torrent of emotion in this powerful new trilogy by Michelle Smart!
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MICHELLE SMARTâs love affair with books started when she was a baby, when she would cuddle them in her cot. A voracious reader of all genres, she found her love of romance established when she stumbled across her first Mills & Boon book at the age of twelve. Sheâs been reading (and writing) them ever since. Michelle lives in Northamptonshire with her husband and two young Smarties.
This book is dedicated to Jo aka âCatâ. Who has been there with me every step of the way.
Contents
JOANNE BROOKES COVERED her mouth to stifle a yawn and blinked rapidly to keep her eyes open. She was quite tempted to shove the thick pile of papers aside and have a nap at the small kitchen table, but she needed to read and digest as much as she could.
The floor creaked behind her and she turned to see Toby poke his head around the door of the tiny living space.
âWhat are you doing up, you little monkey?â she asked with a smile.
âIâm thirsty.â
âYouâve got water in your room.â
He gave an impish grin and padded over to her, his too-short pyjamas displaying his bare ankles. He hoisted himself up onto her lap and pressed his warm face into her neck.
âDo you have to go away?â
Wrapping her arms tightly around his skinny frame, Jo dropped a kiss in Tobyâs thick black hair. âI wish I didnât.â
There was no point in explaining the finer details of why she had to leave for the island of Agon in the morning. Toby was four years old and any kind of rationalising normally went right over his head.
âIs ten days a long time?â he asked.
âIt is to start with, but before you know it the time will have flown by and Iâll be home.â She wouldnât lie to him, and could only dress her departure up into something bearable. Her stomach had been in knots all day, knitted so tightly she hadnât been able to eat a thing.
Theyâd only spent two nights apart since Tobyâs birth. Under normal circumstances she wouldnât even have considered going. It would have been a flat-out no.
âAnd just think what fun youâll have with Uncle Jonathan,â she added, injecting a huge dose of positivity into her voice.
âAnd Aunty Cathy?â
âYesâand Aunty Cathy. And Lucy.â
Her brother and his wife lived in the local town with their year-old daughter. Toby adored them almost as much as they adored him. Even knowing that he would be in safe, loving hands, Jo hated the thought of being apart from him for such a long time.
But Giles, her boss, had been desperate. Fiona Samaras, their in-house biographer, who was working on the commemorative biography of the King of Agon, had been struck down with acute appendicitis. Jo was only a copywriter, but that didnât matterâshe was the only other person who spoke Greek in the specialist publishing house she worked for. She wasnât completely fluent, but she knew enough to translate the research papers into English and make it readable.
If the biography wasnât complete by a week on Wednesday there wouldnât be time for it to be copy-edited and proofread and sent to the printers, who were waiting to print five thousand English language copies and courier them to the Agon palace in time for the gala.
