Annie West - The Greek's Forbidden Princess

Illicit nights with the billionaire...

News of a tragic accident plunges Princess Amelie’s life into turmoil. To escape the swarming press, she takes her newly orphaned nephew and runs, seeking the protection of one man.

Lambis Evangelos desires Amelie beyond all reckoning, but refuses to taint her radiant beauty with the guilt of his past. For years he’s resisted his longing for her luscious body—until Amelie’s arrival at his doorstep draws him too close to her forbidden temptation...

His secluded Greek island is a refuge from the world. There, Amelie and Lambis have no choice—they must yield to their fiery, uncontrollable passion!

‘Why ask when clearly you don’t care?’

Amelie didn’t even turn to face him. Only the rigidity of her slim frame and the hands clenched at her sides revealed her tension. Lambis didn’t answer. To say he cared would be tantamount to inviting them to stay, and that he couldn’t do. Yet nor could he see her tension and not respond.

Damn the woman! She’d got under his skin once. He couldn’t let her do it again.

Suddenly she spun round, and the change in her was a punch to the solar plexus. Gone was the touch-me-not Princess, the haughty aristocrat. Everything about Amelie spoke of heat and passion. From her flashing eyes to the heightened colour accentuating those high cheekbones and the sweet bow of her mouth, deliciously plump as if she’d been biting it.

The effect was instant and incendiary—a symphony of want turned his body to hot, brazen metal. He’d wanted her before, too many times to count, but not like this—as if he’d incinerate if he didn’t reach out and touch her, taste those kissable lips and possess that poised, perfect body.

‘My nephew is required to speak. To accept his future role and swear an oath. If he doesn’t…’ Amelie paused and the colour faded from her cheeks. ‘If he can’t say the words another heir will be found.’

‘Couldn’t the law be changed?’

‘Not quickly enough.’

The Princess Seductions

Driven by duty—destined for desire!

A dynastic marriage is planned between Princess Amelie of St Galla and King Alexander of Bengaria. They are meant to be meeting for the first time—but Amelie has disappeared!

Someone must stand in until Amelie returns—and who better than her secret half-sister Cat Dubois?

But when Amelie embarks on a sizzling forbidden affair will she ever want to return?

Find out what happens in

His Majesty’s Temporary Bride

The Greek’s Forbidden Princess

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The Greek’s Forbidden Princess

Annie West

www.millsandboon.co.uk

Growing up near the beach, ANNIE WESTspent lots of time observing tall, burnished lifeguards—early research! Now she spends her days fantasising about gorgeous men and their love-lives. Annie has been a reader all her life. She also loves travel, long walks, good company and great food. You can contact her at annie@annie-west.com or via PO Box 1041, Warners Bay, NSW 2282, Australia.

Books by Annie West

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The Flaw in Raffaele’s Revenge

The Princess Seductions

His Majesty’s Temporary Bride

Wedlocked!

The Desert King’s Captive Bride

Secret Heirs of Billionaires

The Desert King’s Secret Heir

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For Karen, who’s there through thick and thin. Thanks, mate!

And a big thank you to Efthalia for advising on the Greek.

Dear Reader,

The Greek’s Forbidden Princess is the second book in my The Princess Seductions duet, and yet it was the first of the two story ideas that came to me. It’s been in my head a long time, slowly percolating till the time was right to get it down in black and white.

In my teens I began a love affair with Greece—possibly from the day I picked up a very old edition of stories by Mary Stewart, which featured feisty women finding both peril and romance in the wild mountains of Greece. Strong heroes, passion (if rather understated, in keeping with the time they were written) and exotic locations—I was hooked! Since then I’ve had the chance to explore a little of the country and its culture and the fascination continues.

My brooding, powerful hero Lambis, who’s cut himself off from the chance of love, owes as much to that early reading as to the traditional Beauty and the Beast theme. But the story isn’t all about him. In fact it was Princess Amelie I thought of first. Caring, charming, hard-working and beautiful—she might have been too good to be true, except I learned immediately that this woman hides a world of hurt and thwarted hopes behind her serene expression. She loves and cares deeply, and will risk anything for those she loves—not only scandal, but heartbreak. So when it’s a toss-up between saving her orphaned nephew and begging for help from the man who rejected her… You can imagine what choice she makes!

I felt deeply for Amelie and Lambis. Their story moved me and I hope it moves you too. I hope, like me, you sigh with pleasure when you reach the final page.

With very best wishes,

Annie

Contents

Cover

Back Cover Text

Introduction

The Princess Seductions

Title Page

About the Author

Dedication

Dear Reader

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER NINE

CHAPTER TEN

CHAPTER ELEVEN

CHAPTER TWELVE

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

EPILOGUE

Extract

Copyright

CHAPTER ONE

‘THEN KATALEVENO.’ I don’t understand. Amelie paused and tried again, working to keep her teeth from chattering as the temperature dropped another degree or six. ‘Kyrios Evangelos, parakalo.’ Mr Evangelos, please.

The intercom squawked into a burst of machine-gun-fast Greek. Amelie hadn’t a hope of understanding. She’d already used up her handful of phrases.

Clearly the woman inside the house had no patience for foreigners. Or language skills other than Greek. Amelie had already tried French, English, German and finally even Spanish and Russian.

But why should the housekeeper, if that was who she was, speak anything other than Greek? This estate was high in the mountain spine of northern Greece. Tourists headed for the beaches of the Aegean Sea or the ancient ruins. Amelie guessed only the most adventurous foreigners headed to this isolated, beautiful region.

Adventurous or desperate.

Amelie had never had a chance to be adventurous. But a twist of fate had turned her staid, predictable world on its head. Desperate was too mild a description for her situation.

‘Please. Parakalo,’ she began, hunching her shoulders against the icy wind, but the line went dead.

Amelie stared, disbelieving, into the security camera perched above the gates. The woman had hung up! She must have seen Amelie shivering in the unseasonable icy blast.