Cara Colter - The Pregnancy Pact - The Pregnancy Secret / The CEO's Baby Surprise / From Paradise...to Pregnant!

About the Authors

CARA COLTERshares her life in beautiful British Columbia, Canada, with her husband, nine horses, and one small Pomeranian with a large attitude. She loves to hear from readers, and you can learn more about her and contact her through Facebook.

HELEN LACEYgrew up reading Black Beauty and Little House on the Prairie . These childhood classics inspired her to write her first book when she was seven, a story about a girl and her horse. She loves writing for Mills & Boon True Love, where she can create strong heroes with a soft heart and heroines with gumption who get their happily-ever-after. For more about Helen, visit her website, www.helenlacey.com.

KANDY SHEPHERDswapped her fast-paced career as a magazine editor for a life writing romance. She lives on a small farm in the Blue Mountains near Sydney, Australia, with her husband, daughter and a menagerie of animal friends. Kandy believes in love at first sight and real-life romance—they worked for her!

Kandy loves to hear from her readers. Visit her website at www.kandyshepherd.com.

The Pregnancy Pact

The Pregancy Secret

Cara Colter

The CEO’s Baby Surprise

Helen Lacey

From Paradise…to Pregnant!

Kandy Shepherd

www.millsandboon.co.uk

ISBN: 978-1-474-08141-2

THE PREGNANCY PACT

The Pregancy Secret © 2015 Cara Colter The CEO’s Baby Surprise © 2015 Helen Lacey From Paradise…to Pregnant! © 2015 Kandy Shepherd

Published in Great Britain 2018

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. This edition is published by arrangement with Harlequin Books S.A.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, locations and incidents are purely fictional and bear no relationship to any real life individuals, living or dead, or to any actual places, business establishments, locations, events or incidents. Any resemblance is entirely coincidental.

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Table of Contents

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About the Authors About the Authors CARA COLTER shares her life in beautiful British Columbia, Canada, with her husband, nine horses, and one small Pomeranian with a large attitude. She loves to hear from readers, and you can learn more about her and contact her through Facebook. HELEN LACEY grew up reading Black Beauty and Little House on the Prairie . These childhood classics inspired her to write her first book when she was seven, a story about a girl and her horse. She loves writing for Mills & Boon True Love, where she can create strong heroes with a soft heart and heroines with gumption who get their happily-ever-after. For more about Helen, visit her website, www.helenlacey.com . KANDY SHEPHERD swapped her fast-paced career as a magazine editor for a life writing romance. She lives on a small farm in the Blue Mountains near Sydney, Australia, with her husband, daughter and a menagerie of animal friends. Kandy believes in love at first sight and real-life romance—they worked for her! Kandy loves to hear from her readers. Visit her website at www.kandyshepherd.com .

Title Page The Pregnancy Pact The Pregancy Secret Cara Colter The CEO’s Baby Surprise Helen Lacey From Paradise…to Pregnant! Kandy Shepherd www.millsandboon.co.uk

Copyright ISBN: 978-1-474-08141-2 THE PREGNANCY PACT The Pregancy Secret © 2015 Cara Colter The CEO’s Baby Surprise © 2015 Helen Lacey From Paradise…to Pregnant! © 2015 Kandy Shepherd Published in Great Britain 2018 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. This edition is published by arrangement with Harlequin Books S.A. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, locations and incidents are purely fictional and bear no relationship to any real life individuals, living or dead, or to any actual places, business establishments, locations, events or incidents. Any resemblance is entirely coincidental. By payment of the required fees, you are granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right and licence to download and install this e-book on your personal computer, tablet computer, smart phone or other electronic reading device only (each a “Licensed Device”) and to access, display and read the text of this e-book on-screen on your Licensed Device. Except to the extent any of these acts shall be permitted pursuant to any mandatory provision of applicable law but no further, no part of this e-book or its text or images may be reproduced, transmitted, distributed, translated, converted or adapted for use on another file format, communicated to the public, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of publisher. ® and ™ are trademarks owned and used by the trademark owner and/or its licensee. Trademarks marked with ® are registered with the United Kingdom Patent Office and/or the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market and in other countries. www.millsandboon.co.uk

The Pregancy Secret The Pregancy Secret Cara Colter

Dedication To my friend, and mentor, Joan Fitzpatrick, whose wisdom and compassion have guided and inspired me for three decades.

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

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

CHAPTER NINETEEN

CHAPTER TWENTY

The CEO’s Baby Surprise

Dedication

Prologue

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six