Dani Collins - The Maid's Spanish Secret

“You will come to Spain. You will marry me...”

For sweet maid Poppy Harris, her one and only passionate experience was scorching and absolutely forbidden. She shouldn’t have succumbed to Spanish aristocrat Rico Montero’s tantalizing seduction, but his touch was all consuming...and had a nine-month consequence! Poppy believes they could never be anything more. Until Rico appears on her doorstep demanding his hidden daughter—and determined to make Poppy his wife!

Enjoy this intensely dramatic marriage of convenience!

Canadian DANI COLLINSknew in high school that she wanted to write romance for a living. Twenty-five years later, after marrying her high school sweetheart, having two kids with him, working at several generic office jobs and submitting countless manuscripts, she got The Call. Her first Mills & Boon novel won the Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best First in Series from RT Book Reviews . She now works in her own office, writing romance.

Also by Dani Collins Contents Cover Back Cover Text About the Author Booklist Title Page Copyright Note to Readers Dedication PROLOGUE CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CHAPTER NINE EPILOGUE Extract About the Publisher

The Secret Beneath the Veil

Xenakis’s Convenient Bride

Consequence of His Revenge

Claiming His Christmas Wife

Untouched Until Her Ultra-Rich Husband

Innocents for Billionaires miniseries

A Virgin to Redeem the Billionaire

Innocent’s Nine-Month Scandal

The Sauveterre Siblings miniseries

Pursued by the Desert Prince

His Mistress with Two Secrets

Bound by the Millionaire’s Ring

Prince’s Son of Scandal

Bound to the Desert King collection

Sheikh’s Princess of Convenience

Discover more at millsandboon.co.uk.

The Maid’s Spanish Secret

Dani Collins

www.millsandboon.co.uk

ISBN: 978-1-474-08803-9

THE MAID’S SPANISH SECRET

© 2019 Dani Collins

Published in Great Britain 2019

by Mills & Boon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF

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For my editor, Laurie Johnson, and the

wonderful team at Harlequin Mills & Boon in London.

Romance novels taught me to chase my dreams,

and writing for Mills & Boon Modern Romance

was a lifelong goal.

Thirty books in, I’m still astonished and eternally

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Back Cover Text “You will come to Spain. You will marry me...” For sweet maid Poppy Harris, her one and only passionate experience was scorching and absolutely forbidden. She shouldn’t have succumbed to Spanish aristocrat Rico Montero’s tantalizing seduction, but his touch was all consuming...and had a nine-month consequence! Poppy believes they could never be anything more. Until Rico appears on her doorstep demanding his hidden daughter—and determined to make Poppy his wife! Enjoy this intensely dramatic marriage of convenience!

About the Author Canadian DANI COLLINS knew in high school that she wanted to write romance for a living. Twenty-five years later, after marrying her high school sweetheart, having two kids with him, working at several generic office jobs and submitting countless manuscripts, she got The Call. Her first Mills & Boon novel won the Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best First in Series from RT Book Reviews . She now works in her own office, writing romance.

Booklist Also by Dani Collins Contents Cover Back Cover Text About the Author Booklist Title Page Copyright Note to Readers Dedication PROLOGUE CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CHAPTER NINE EPILOGUE Extract About the Publisher The Secret Beneath the Veil Xenakis’s Convenient Bride Consequence of His Revenge Claiming His Christmas Wife Untouched Until Her Ultra-Rich Husband Innocents for Billionaires miniseries A Virgin to Redeem the Billionaire Innocent’s Nine-Month Scandal The Sauveterre Siblings miniseries Pursued by the Desert Prince His Mistress with Two Secrets Bound by the Millionaire’s Ring Prince’s Son of Scandal Bound to the Desert King collection Sheikh’s Princess of Convenience Discover more at millsandboon.co.uk .

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Copyright ISBN: 978-1-474-08803-9 THE MAID’S SPANISH SECRET © 2019 Dani Collins Published in Great Britain 2019 by Mills & Boon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.