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The drama is fierce and compelling, the sexual tension explosive...and the romance delectably satisfying. Harlequin Presents has it all...marriage of convenience, red-hot revenge, forced betrothal, passion among the rich and powerful...played against the romantic background of Mediterranean settings. Get twelve new scorching tales of passion and romance with one simple click of the mouse.

Bundle includes: The Markonos Bride by Michelle Reid, Secret Baby, Convenient Wife by Kim Lawrence, King of the Desert, Captive Bride by Jane Porter, The Italian's Passionate Revenge by Lucy Gordon, Di Cesare's Pregnant Mistress by Chantelle Shaw, The Spaniard's Defiant Virgin by Jenni Lucas, Accidental Mistress by Susan Napier, Her Bedroom Surrender by Trish Wylie, The Greek's Forbidden Bride by Cathy Williams, The Greek Tycoon's Unexpected Wife by Annie West, The Greek Tycoon's Virgin Mistress by Chantelle Shaw and The Giannakis Bride by Catherine Spencer.

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Bio of Michelle Reid

Hi everyone. My name is Michelle Reid. I live in the Northwest of England with my husband of thirty four happy years. I have two lovely daughters and three gorgeous grandchildren all of whom live quite close by, which is great because it means I get to see a lot of them - unless I am heading towards a book deadline when I can almost hear their collective sighs of relief as I take myself off to our Lakeland cottage to write in isolation. I can't think of another career I would rather be involved in than writing Romantic Fiction. And with all of those wonderful to Mediterranean countries waiting only a few tantalising flying-hours away I have the perfect excuse for visiting some of the most beautiful and exotic locations in Europe in search of fresh inspiration for my books.

Bio of Kim Lawrence

Though lacking much authentic Welsh blood, Kim Lawrence comes from English/Irish stock. She was born and brought up in North Wales. She returned there when she married, and her sons were both born on Anglesey, an island off the coast. Though not isolated, Anglesey is a little off the beaten track, but lively Dublin, which Kim loves, is only a short ferry ride away. Today they live on the farm her husband was brought up on. Welsh is the first language of many people in this area and Kim's husband and sons are all bilingual -- she is having a lot of fun, not to mention a few headaches, trying to learn the language! With small children, the unsocial hours of nursing didn't look attractive so encouraged by a husband who thinks she can do anything she sets her mind to, Kim tried her hand at writing. Always a keen Harlequin Mills & Boon reader, it seemed natural for her to write a romance novel -- now she can't imagine doing anything else. She is a keen gardener and cook and enjoys running -- often on the beach, as living on an island the sea is never very far away. She is usually accompanied by her Jack Russell, Sprout -- don't ask, it's long story!

Bio of Jane Porter

A UCLA grad with an MA in Writing, I am one of those original book geeks, the girl with the coke bottle glasses that sat with a novel next to the classroom door rather than play during recess. I wrote my first story in first grade, my first picture book in second grade and my first novel in 4th, and I've just continued to write from there--bad poetry, passionate essays, romance rich novels and poignant, bittersweet contemporary fiction. But writing doesn't always come easy to me. I have to work at it. To go below the surface and find the real story in each story, the heart of the novel, the one the reader will hopefully remember long after the story is through. Writing makes me a bit mad which is why I work very hard to have good hair. When not writing, what do I do for fun? Travel. I don't know if it's from growing up in a small Central California town, or living abroad with my family when I was 13, but I crave change, travel, adventure. Put me in a car, a ship, a plane and send me off. I subscribe to countless travel magazines, have a library of travel books, and am always interested in where people have been. Then of course, there are my kids. Being the mom of two boys I watch a lot of sports, and do goofy boy things with them like create slug habitats and nurture baby geckos. It's not the life I expected--I was such a Barbie doll girl--but its full of Tom Sawyer moments that surprise, delight and absolutely exasperate me but I wouldn't have it any other way. The boys and I live in Bellevue, Washington, six miles from downtown Seattle, and with the plethora of pro sport teams, rugged mountains, coffee houses and bookstores, it's the perfect place for a writer to call home.

Bio of Lucy Gordon

Lucy Gordon was born in England, where she still lives with her Italian husband. She wanted to be a writer all her life, and began by working on a British womenýs magazine. As a features writer, she gained a wide variety of experience. She interviewed some of the worldýs most attractive and interesting men, including Warren Beatty, Richard Chamberlain, Charlton Heston, Sir Roger Moore, Sir Alec Guiness. Single life was so enjoyable that she put marriage, and even romance, on the back burner, while she went about the world having a great time. Then, while on vacation in Venice, she met a tall, dark handsome Venetian, who changed all her ideas in a moment, and proposed on the second day. Three months later they were married ý and still are. Her friends said a whirlwind romance would never last, but so far itýs lasted nearly 30 years. Lucy now claims to be an expert on one particular subject. Italian men are the most romantic in the world. They are also the best cooks.

Bio of Chantelle Shaw

Chantelle Shaw grew up in London and enjoyed a blissfully happy childhood making up stories in her head. She worked as a secretary and PA, and at twenty married the wonderful man she had fallen in love when they were both teenagers. With the birth of her first child the family moved to the Kent coast and Chantelle became a stay-at-home mum to her ever-growing family that now includes six children, a dog and various other pets. Always an avid reader, Chantelle discovered Mills & Boon romances as a teenager, and during the "nocturnal years" when her children refused to sleep she would pace the floor with a baby in one hand and a book in the other! In her tiny amount of free time she began scribbling stories of her own, and although Mills & Boon rejected these, she received encouragement and advice from the editors to try again. However, the demands of trying to juggle family, home and a variety of part-time jobs (including night-work she had given up on sleeping by then!) meant that it was easier to write books in her head rather than put pen to paper. It wasn't until twenty years after her first attempts at writing, when she was struggling to cope with the death of her adored mum, that Chantelle was inspired to try again. She found that retreating into the fantasy world inside her head was the only way to deal with her sadness, and she wanted to honor her mum who had always believed she would one day become a published writer. To this day Chantelle enjoys romantic fiction because it offers an escape into a fantasy world of glamour, excitement and, of course, gorgeous men! She hopes that the books she writes give readers the same sense of enjoyment and relaxation. She likes to create strong, sexy heroes and even stronger-willed, independent heroines who ultimately find the love and happiness she has been lucky enough to have in her life. Writing takes up most of her spare time, but she also enjoys gardening and walking. Unfortunately, she doesn't find housework and cooking so pleasurable!

Bio of Jennie Lucas

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Bio of Susan Napier

Susan Napier was born (appropriately, for a romance writer) February 14, St. Valentine's Day, in Auckland, New Zealand. She was 11 years old when her first story was published ' on the children's page of a daily newspaper ' and from that time on she was a confirmed scribbler. By the time she graduated from high school she was determined to make writing her full-time career. Her first job was as a reporter at the Auckland Star, the city's leading evening newspaper. It was there that she met her archetypal hero, the newspaper's tall, dark, and handsome chief reporter, Englishman Tony Potter. In the best traditions for romance, Susan and Tony fell in love, married, and have raised two sons, Simon and Ben, both of whom are now studying at university in Auckland. After her marriage Susan left the newspaper to work for several years as a script writer/researcher/production assistant for a film company, and it is there that she learned the craft of writing dialogue, so essential for a successful novelist. After her sons were born she worked as a freelance documentary scriptwriter before deciding that it was time to try her hand at writing the kind of fiction that she enjoyed reading. It took Susan nearly two years to finish her first manuscript, which was accepted by Mills & Boon in London after an extensive rewrite, which took almost another year. By the time Sweet Vixen was published in 1983 she had had a second book accepted, and was working on a third. The year 2000 saw her 30th book published by Harlequin Mills & Boon. Susan and Tony still live in the house they bought soon after their marriage, next to a nature reserve in a leafy suburb of Auckland. However, extensive renovations have provided for their expanding lives, including a book-crammed office for Susan, sprawling living quarters and a large, solar-heated, saltwater pool in a sunny, paved courtyard. Tony now works for a national Sunday newspaper and retains his hero status in her life, serving as a constant source of inspiration and information for her books. Their sons, who divide their time between studying and competing at national and international track-and-field meets, still live in the family home; and with their girlfriends and friends, two cats (one timid and one bad-tempered), and Susan's elderly parents living nearby, her nonwriting time is mostly taken up with coping with the happy chaos of family life. And reading romances, of course! Susan can be contacted at: P.O. Box 18-240, Glen Innes, Auckland 1130, New Zealand.

Bio of Trish Wylie

Anyone who knows me will tell you I've always wanted to write... It just took a while to get here, but was more than worth it in the end... For me it started in Primary School with what we knew as 'Creative Writing'. In around about Primary Six (about 10 years of age) I had a rather inventive teacher who came up with a star rating system for home-works. The more stars you gained the closer you were to cashing them in for a night off doing homework... As I was truly awful at Mathematics, Creative Writing homework was my best way of earning stars and hence a lifelong passion was born...

Bio of Cathy Williams

Cathy was born in the West Indies and has been writing Mills & Boon romances for some 11 years. She is a great believer in the power of perseverance as she had never written anything before (apart from school essays a lifetime ago!), and from the starting point of zero has now fulfilled her ambition to pursue this most enjoyable of careers. She would encourage any would-be writer to have faith and go for it! She loves the beautiful Warwickshire countryside with her husband and three children, Charlotte, Olivia, and Emma. When not writing she is hard-pressed to find a moment's free time in between the millions of household chores, not to mention being a one-woman taxi service for her daughter's never-ending social lives. She derives inspiration from the hot, lazy, tropical island of Trinidad (where she was born), from the peaceful countryside of middle England and, of course, from her many friends, who are a rich source of plots and are particularly garrulous when it comes to describing Mills & Boon heroes. It would seem, from their complaints, that tall, dark, and charismatic men are way too few and far between! Her hope is to continue writing romance fiction and providing those eternal tales of love for which, she feels, we all strive.

Bio of Annie West

Annie spent her formative years on the east coast of Australia and grew up in a book loving family. One of her earliest memories is of lying tucked up in bed, drowsy after an afternoon's adventure in the rainforest gully that was her backyard, and listening to her father read The Wind in the Willows. She got hooked on romance early. In her teens she spent long afternoons playing tennis with her best friend. Between endless games on baking gravel, they'd stagger to her friend's house to recover, and in that house was an unending store of books, all with that distinctive rose on the cover. That's how Annie discovered romance and she's been addicted ever since. All those strong silent types, flashing eyed Italians, haughty Spanish aristocrats and the rest.

Bio of Catherine Spencer

Catherine Spencer fell into writing by happy accident. Approaching menopause and ready for a change of career while she could still walk and chew gum at the same time, she eavesdropped on a conversation about writing for Harlequin and decided this was too good a challenge to pass up. With the blithe ignorance of a non-swimmer leaping into a shark-infested pool, she resigned from her job as a high school English teacher and fired off her first submission to Harlequin Mills & Boon's editorial staff. Although her first two submissions were rejected, the third effort made the grade. Since then, she's sold over 25 books; 24 of them to Harlequin and most of them selected for the Presents Line. The Loving Touch, her third novel, was a short contemporary finalist for the Romance Writers of America's prestigious RITA Award.

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9781426817489