Yet his brilliant personal assistant, Livia, flat-out refuses his proposal…and then quits! Matteo is outraged, then intrigued… Can anything make his ideal queen reconsider?Livia has loved Matteo since he plucked her from the gutter as a teenager. Wearing his crown yet not having his heart would be unbearable. Still, their mind-blowing kiss makes innocent Livia long for his touch. If she surrenders to their desire just once, will she be able to say goodbye for good?From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds.Read all The Kings of California books:Book 1: The Scandal Behind the Italian's WeddingBook 2: Stealing the Promised PrincessBook 3: Crowning His Innocent AssistantBook 4: The Only King to Claim Her

    First love had endured.Yet she was hesitant when they met again in London. "It's madness, and you're crazy if you agree," Grant warned her, "but let's get married and sort out the rest afterward!"If only he'd said he loved her, Fran might not have been so acutely sensitive to every reminder of his first wife...and how much she resembled her.

    It had been impossible for Kelly to resist him - and now she was pregnant!Kelly didn't want Jake back in her life; their divorce had just become final and she couldn't possibly tell him that he was the baby's father. But Jake was determined to look after Kelly - even if that meant moving in to her apartment. Could they mend their marriage in time for the birth of their baby?

    After rescuing lost archaeologist Charlotte from the desert, he can’t let her go. And when he requires a bride, their mutual desire compels Tariq to crown Charlotte as his queen!Innocent dreamer Charlotte thought passion was for other people—until Tariq proves how deliciously wrong she is! The pleasure of their marriage bed makes her feel alive. But the intensity of her connection with Tariq makes Charlotte feel something infinitely more dangerous…

    Rescued from sleeping on the streets, Misha stepped into the dangerous family of the Russian mafia. Her smiling bright nature was in violent contrast with the mob boss. Mikhail Kulakov was quiet, lethal, calculative, --and ten years her senior. As she grew older gratitude turned into a secret desire towards her hardened criminal guardian. Forbidden feelings... At first, she was simply just a distraction to his routine life. Then the years passed taking the young girl with them, leaving behind a beautiful young woman under his roof. It took everything Mikhail had to ignore his ward's sweet and innocent allure. His little Misha did not deserve a hardened criminal. But he would be damned before he let another man have her. (This novel contains very mature erotic content)

    But one dark summer night before her senior year robs her of everyone she loves, thrusting her into the custody of her boyfriend’s intimidating, much older brother. Jasper Andersson is not a good man. His business dealings are barely legal. He’s a womanizer and a drug user. He has no interest in becoming Keyne’s guardian, although given her limited options, he doesn’t have much of a choice. And when his feelings become far from platonic, he must protect her at whatever the cost...even from himself. The thoughts, the urges, the dreams he had about her. He’d take that secret to his goddamn grave.

    - Please. - Cruz De Carrillo cannot forget the searing kiss he shared with his shy maid, Trinity Adams. For the moment the Spanish billionaire walked away, horrified at losing his legendary control, Trinity quickly moved on--to become nanny, guardian and stepmother to his brother's sons!Now Cruz must protect his orphaned nephews. When Trinity refuses to leave them, he knows there is one solution--a ring on her finger! It's the only way Cruz can keep her in his castillo, under his watchful eye, and finish what he started--this time in his bed!

    So why was he back? Elisa trusted Salvatore di Vitale as far as she could throw him. And, as the wealthy Sicilian was over six feet tall, that wasn't very far.Salvatore told Elisa he had come to protect her. And if their close proximity led to passion...and if passion should lead to pregnancy...all the better! Because then Elisa would have to marry him, which was Salvatore's plan all along.

    Ruston in a peaceful Suffolk village seemed just what the doctor had ordered--plenty of fresh air and no stress.Instead Bethan was strained to the limit. She met Fraser again, and was reminded of the guilt she'd carried with her since his sister Ishbel's party ten years ago. But seeing Fraser with the woman he intended to marry was what really hurt.She'd loved Fraser as a young girl, and she loved him still--with a depth and power that was shattering.

    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?

    Instead, he told her to "go away and never come back." So that was exactly what she did. Angolos has never seen his son -- until now!In fact, Angolos Constantine didn't think he could have children, and now he's not prepared to let this miracle go. Even though Georgie seems to hate him, he'll have what's rightfully his...by whatever means possible!

    Just as beautiful Lady Arabella Grey, the young cousin of England's King Richard III, speaks her wedding vows to Sir Jasper Keane, the Scotsman Tavis Stewart, Earl of Dunmore, abducts Arabella as payment for Jasper's murder of his fiancee. Irresistibly, deliciously, Arabella surrenders to her enemy with fierce abandon--knowing that there may be only one way to get what is rightfully hers....

    

    Until her billionaire boss, Lucas Conway, looks at her with a fiery intensity she just can’t resist. Only now Tara has the mortifying task of flying to New York to tell him—a renowned bachelor whose least favourite word is family—that their electrifying night in his bed had the most scandalous of consequences!Follow Cinderella to glamorous New York!

    Her revelation: unforgettable!Orla O’Reilly knew the father of her precious three-year-old son must be out there somewhere. But after a car accident left her with amnesia, she’s unable to recall his name. Until Tonino arrives at her sister’s wedding, and suddenly it comes flooding back. Their connection…and his betrayal…Billionaire Tonino is astounded by Orla’s return. The memory of their short but intense affair has never left him. But convincing Orla that he has the right to his child—and her heart—will be far from easy…From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds.