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A ruthless billionaire...
When Sicilian tycoon Raul Di Savo meets Lydia Hayward, it’s not only her cool elegance he desires—seducing Lydia will also deny his lifelong rival’s bid for her body...
An innocent in peril...
Desperate to escape being sold to a stranger, Lydia turns to Raul—he promises her only one night, but his expert touch awakens her to pleasure she cannot resist!
A nine-month consequence!
Discovering she’s a pawn in Raul’s game of revenge, Lydia leaves...until she realizes an unexpected consequence will bind her to Raul forever!
Lydia could feel heat hover between their mouths in a slow tease before they met.
Then they met.
And all that had been missing was suddenly there.
At first taste she was Raul’s and he knew it, for her hands moved to the back of his head and he kissed her as hard as her fingers demanded.
He slid one arm around her waist to move her body from the wall, closer to his, so that her head could fall backwards.
If there had been a bed, she would have been on it.
If there had been a room they would have closed the door.
But there wasn’t, so he halted them—but only their lips.
‘What do you want to do?’ he whispered against her skin, and then he blew on her neck, still damp from his kisses, and raised his head and met her eyes. ‘Tonight I can give you anything you want.’
This is my 100th title for Mills & Boon!
Rather than use this space to tell you about Raul and Lydia, I would like to thank you.
Whether this is the first or the hundredth time you have read me, I am so grateful to my readers. Even if we haven’t met face to face, or online, hopefully we’ve shared some time through words on a page, and had a smile or three when one of my heroes misbehaves, or one of my heroines messes up. They tend to do that a lot.
I often cry when I’m writing, but I also laugh often too.
I hope, in some way, my stories let you do the same.
Happy reading, and love always,
Carol xxxx
The Innocent’s Secret Baby
Carol Marinelli
CAROL MARINELLI recently filled in a form asking for her job title. Thrilled to be able to put down her answer, she put ‘writer’. Then it asked what Carol did for relaxation and she put down the truth—‘writing’. The third question asked for her hobbies. Well, not wanting to look obsessed, she crossed her fingers and answered ‘swimming’—but, given that the chlorine in the pool does terrible things to her highlights, I’m sure you can guess the real answer!
Books by Carol Marinelli
Mills & Boon Modern Romance
One Night With Consequences
The Sheikh’s Baby Scandal
The Billionaire’s Legacy
Di Sione’s Innocent Conquest
Irresistible Russian Tycoons
The Price of His Redemption
The Cost of the Forbidden
Billionaire Without a Past
Return of the Untamed Billionaire
Playboys of Sicily
Sicilian’s Shock Proposal
His Sicilian Cinderella
Mills & Boon Medical Romance
Their Secret Royal Baby
The London Primary Hospital
Playboy on Her Christmas List
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For Lena, my mum.
You were wonderful as both and I will love you for ever.
Until we meet again…
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