Maureen Child - Little Secrets

About the Authors

MAUREEN CHILDwrites for the Mills & Boon Desire line and can’t imagine a better job. A seven-time finalist for a prestigious Romance Writers of America RITA® Award, Maureen is an author of more than one hundred romance novels. Her books regularly appear on bestseller lists and have won several awards, including a Prism Award, a National Readers’ Choice Award, a Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence and a Golden Quill Award. She is a native Californian but has recently moved to the mountains of Utah.

SARAH M. ANDERSONmay live east of the Mississippi River, but her heart lies out west on the Great Plains. Sarah’s book A Man of Privilege won an RT Reviewers’ Choice Best Book Award in 2012. The Nanny Plan was a 2016 RITA® Award winner for Contemporary Romance: Short.

Sarah spends her days having conversations with imaginary cowboys and billionaires. Find out more about Sarah’s heroes at www.sarahmanderson.comand sign up for the new-release newsletter at www.eepurl.com/nv39b

A typical Piscean, USA TODAY bestselling author YVONNE LINDSAYhas always preferred her imagination to the real world. Married to her blind-date hero and with two adult children, she spends her days crafting the stories of her heart, and in her spare time she can be found with her nose in a book reliving the power of love, or knitting socks and daydreaming. Contact her via her website, www.yvonnelindsay.com

Little Secrets

Little Secrets: His Unexpected Heir

Maureen Child

Little Secrets: Claiming His Pregnant Bride

Sarah M. Anderson

Little Secrets: The Baby Merger

Yvonne Lindsay

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ISBN: 978-1-474-09590-7

LITTLE SECRETS

Little Secrets: His Unexpected Heir © 2017 Maureen Child Little Secrets: Claiming His Pregnant Bride © 2017 Sarah M. Anderson Little Secrets: The Baby Merger © 2017 Dolce Vita Trust

Published in Great Britain 2019

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Table of Contents

Cover

About the Authors

Title Page

Copyright

Little Secrets: His Unexpected Heir

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Dedication

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Little Secrets: Claiming His Pregnant Bride

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Little Secrets: The Baby Merger

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About the Publisher

Little Secrets: His Unexpected Heir

Maureen Child

Between duty, honor...and a baby! Only from USA TODAY bestselling author Maureen Child.

Six months. That’s how long Rita Marchetti has mourned Jack Buchanan. Yet here he is, alive, standing in front of her, perfect...and devastatingly sexy! Even more amazing is the former marine’s admission that he wanted Rita to think he’d died. But the two of them are about to become three and Jack is back just in time.

That baby Rita is carrying is his. Despite the pain he holds so close to his heart, Jack can’t walk away from his child. A marriage in name only would solve everything. Everything except a desire too deeply buried and too long denied...

Congratulations Maureen Child on OVER 14 MILLION copies sold worldwide with Harlequin!

To my mom, Sallye Carberry,

because she loves romance novels

and shared that love with me.

One

Jack Buchanan listened to his interior decorator talk about swatches and color and found his mind drifting...to anything else.

Four months ago, he’d been in a desert, making life-and-death decisions. Today, he was in an upholstery shop in Long Beach, California, deciding between leather or fabric for the bar seats on the Buchanan Company’s latest cruise ship. He didn’t know whether to be depressed or amused. So he went with impatient.

“Which fabric will hold up better?” he asked, cutting into the argument between the decorator and the upholsterer.

“The leather,” they both said at once, turning to look at him.

“Then use the fabric.” Jack pointed at a bolt of midnight blue cloth shot through with silver threads. “We’re building a fantasy bar. I’m less interested in wear and more concerned with the look of the place. If you want black leather in the mix, too, use it on the booth seats.”

While the decorator and the upholsterer instantly jumped on that idea and put their heads together to plan, Jack shifted his gaze to encompass the shop. Family-owned, Dan Black and his sons, Mark and Tom, ran the place and did great work. Jack had seen that much for himself.