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If she wants payment, she'll get it…Australian billionaire Ethan Carvelle cut Mia Stewart out of his life seven years ago. But now Mia's claiming that she's carrying his late brother's child! Ethan suspects Mia wants to get her hands on the Carvelle fortune. Torn between duty and desire, Ethan decides he'll take Mia as his mistress….But Ethan knows nothing of the deep, dark secret Mia is hiding.
If she wants payment, she'll get it…Australian billionaire Ethan Carvelle cut Mia Stewart out of his life seven years ago. But now Mia's claiming that she's carrying his late brother's child! Ethan suspects Mia wants to get her hands on the Carvelle fortune. Torn between duty and desire, Ethan decides he'll take Mia as his mistress….But Ethan knows nothing of the deep, dark secret Mia is hiding.
A gold-digging home-wrecker isn't Curt McIntosh's ideal woman.But it seems that's exactly what he's got with Peta Grey. For Curt there is only one way to stop her…blackmail! In reality, Peta is a penniless virgin trying to survive. She accepts Curt's ultimatum, and agrees to act as his mistress.But the terms of the deal aren't clear. Peta thought their relationship was purely business. So why has …
A classic murder mystery from Michael Pearce’s award-winning series, set in Egypt in the 1900s, in which the Mamur Zapt confronts the secrets of his past.It is the beginning of the war and the Mamur Zapt, Gareth Owen, British head of Cairo’s secret police, is called in to investigate a human corpse abandoned in a cat cemetery. Is the villagers’ talk of a mysterious Cat Woman mere superstitious non…
‘Humour and topicality along a cold enigmatic trail of murder’ ObserverLife is on the up for Patrick Aldermann: his Great Aunt Florence has collapsed into her rose bed leaving him Rosemont House with its splendid gardens.But when his boss, ‘Dandy’ Dick Elgood, suggests to Peter Pascoe that Aldermann is a murderer – then later retracts the accusation – the detective inspector is left with a thorny …
FAMILY ON THE RUNCriminals are trying to kidnap attorney Samantha Callahan’s adopted daughter, Lily—and she has no idea why. So when bullets start flying, Samantha and Lily speed off in her car…and crash right into help. Ex-cop Reid Palmer is shocked when former law school classmate Samantha rear-ends his car and then climbs in with her daughter and begs him to drive. Now they are on the run, and …
SUSPICION OF GUILTWhen Special Agent in Charge Max West and his K-9 partner, Opal, look into a series of bombings in northern California, horse trainer Katerina Garwood instantly seems suspicious. As the ex-fiancée of a man tied to the criminal Dupree family, Katerina may know more than she’s letting on—especially since the infamous syndicate is targeting her. And Max isn’t sure he can believe her…
First come liesThen comes temptation…Former Black Ops soldier Logan McCabe is in high-tech heaven. The “smart” apartment he's staying at has it all—luxurious amenities, walls that change color, and a seductive and nearly naked woman in the living room. Now that's everything a man can ask for. Except Kensey Roberts is no pixel pinup…and the sexual tension between them is most assuredly real.Kensey …
WITNESS IN JEOPARDYIt’s a typical day at Rachael Long’s daycare center—until a masked gunman tries to abduct one of the children in her charge. First Response Commander Jake Marsh manages to diffuse the situation before anyone is harmed…but not before Rachael unmasks the would-be kidnapper. Now Jake must lead a manhunt and protect Rachael from the criminal who’s turned his focus on her. But the ca…
Getting jilted at the altar was bad enough, but falling for the sympathetic stranger at her honeymoon hotel was much worse!Jenna Sinclair didn't regret it, though; one passion-filled night with Edmund Delaney proved she'd never truly loved her ex-fiance. But when Jenna told Edmund she was pregnant, he was far from dismayed. It seemed he had his own agenda, and marriage to Jenna was just what he ne…
Getting jilted at the altar was bad enough, but falling for the sympathetic stranger at her honeymoon hotel was much worse!Jenna Sinclair didn't regret it, though; one passion-filled night with Edmund Delaney proved she'd never truly loved her ex-fiance. But when Jenna told Edmund she was pregnant, he was far from dismayed. It seemed he had his own agenda, and marriage to Jenna was just what he ne…
A Sicilian courtship: Fast and furious–the sex was fantastic. But Briana O'Connell's explosive encounter with wealthy Sicilian Gianni Firelli was just for the moment, not a lifetime–wasn't it?A Sicilian marriage: Formal and forever–Gianni had news for Briana: the tragedy that had brought them together in grief-fuelled passion had also resulted in their both being named as joint guardians of a baby…
From the Collins Crime Club archive, the second Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’.THE RETURN OF INSPECTOR FRENCHWhen young Maxwell Cheyne discovers that a series of mishaps are the result of unwelcome attention from a dangerous gang of criminals, he teams up with a young woman who is determined to help him outwit them. But when she di…
From the Collins Crime Club archive, the first Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’.THE FIRST INSPECTOR FRENCH MYSTERYAt the offices of the Hatton Garden diamond merchant Duke and Peabody, the body of old Mr Gething is discovered beside a now-empty safe. With multiple suspects, the robbery and murder is clearly the work of a master crimi…