Except this particular alleged criminal has stolen something very personal to him--his son, heir to the Montebianco throne Lily Morgan always knew it was a mistake coming to the Mediterranean kingdom, but she'd had no choice. First she was thrown into jail for a crime she didn't commit...now she's been bailed out by the prince--though in return she must become his royal wife

    Stopping off at her favorite café, Giovanni's, she manages to pick up all three! Working for darkly handsome Giovanni Mazetti is fantastic - except Fran discovers the job comes with a tantalizing caveat - pretending to be his adoring girlfriend! Soon their kisses start happening in private as well as in public, and although Fran knows it's all a game to Giovanni, she can't help wishing his feelings were for real . . . .

    Bound by a life of honor, his sizzling whirlwind affair with Lauren was the only freedom Zafir had ever indulged in. But when he finds out that Lauren is carrying his child and intending to keep it a secret, Zafir imprisons his feisty fling in his palace. Unlike him, his baby will not be the illegitimate heir of a sheikh. And to ensure this, Zafir will make Lauren his wife…!

    So why do I feel like it's slipping through my fingers?  

How can we make our worlds come together when we're both too stubborn and too scared to give in?

 I can't lose her.

 She's my world, my everything.

     He had everything a wolf shifter could want. He even had the perfect mate. Jolie was the only woman he’d ever trusted. The only woman he’d ever loved. She had been his everything. Until the day she had betrayed his trust and eviscerated his soul. Reece had cut her out of his life with a ruthlessness that shocked even him. He had encased his broken heart in ice so thick and glacial that nothing could ever penetrate it again. And he’d been wrong. His mate had not betrayed him. He had betrayed her and destroyed them both in the process. Now he'll stop at nothing to get her and their cub back. But his ex-wife is not the same woman that he remembered. His sunshine girl had been a creature of sweetness and light, not this hissing, vitriol filled she-cat who wanted to claw his eyes out. Reece might be an unstoppable force, but Jolie had become an unmovable object. Is the big bad wolf strong enough to reclaim her heart?

    Because of one brief, passionate moment of revenge he had taken her innocence—and had given her his child. Rome had succeeded in wrecking her life, and her only hope of piecing it together again was to do as he suggested and marry him. But what kind of marriage would it be—she hating him, he despising her as much as he desired her?

    The only uncertainty is…how long can she resist him?