
The International Tycoons Series
Classic Romance
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Morgan Grady — a rich business tycoon with his own Caribbean island — is a wonderful man who has had a difficult past and needs someone to look after him. Winnie Graham is perfect for the job –- and Morgan decides she will also make him a good wife. But Winnie is full of insecurities and finds it hard to believe in herself, and finds it difficult to understand why Morgan wants to marry her. And Morgan sometimes overlooks what is right in front of his nose. The pair both need totake a look inside themselves and overcome their pasts to be truly happy but will they dare to take the chance?
Classic Romance
The Secretary’s Seduction
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Morgan Grady — a rich business tycoon with his own Caribbean island — is a wonderful man who has had a difficult past and needs someone to look after him. Winnie Graham is perfect for the job –- and Morgan decides she will also make him a good wife. But Winnie is full of insecurities and finds it hard to believe in herself, and finds it difficult to understand why Morgan wants to marry her. And Morgan sometimes overlooks what is right in front of his nose. The pair both need totake a look inside themselves and overcome their pasts to be truly happy but will they dare to take the chance?
The Secretary’s Seduction
The International Tycoons Series
Classic Romance
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Tycoons, Marriage of Convenience, Office Romance, Virgin
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The Secretary’s Seduction
It was sweltering. No one, but no one, married in Manhattan in the middle of July. No one but Winnie Graham that is.
The organist paused and the packed congregation in St. Paul’s Cathedral seemed to rise in unison and all four hundred and fifty heads turned to stare at Winnie where she stood at the back of the church in her twenty-thousand-dollar silk bridal gown.
White silk gown.
Just like her white garter, white silk hose, white flowers, white carpet, white, white, white for a virgin bride.
For a twenty-five-year-old virgin bride who knew so little about life and men, that she was about to walk down the aisle without ever being kissed.
Well, she had been kissed once, badly kissed, back in seventh grade when Rufus Jones practically stuck his tongue down her throat at a junior high birthday party. She’d been so disgusted by the kiss that she’d nearly thrown up afterward, so that kiss didn’t count.
And now she was about to marry the love of her life except he didn’t love her and he’d never kissed her and she’d actually signed a contract agreeing to this horrible public society wedding which meant nothing to him.
What in God’s name was she thinking? What in God’s name was she doing?
How could she be a wife before she’d ever had a date?
Winnie closed her eyes, drew a deep breath and tried to calm herself but she was losing it, knew she was losing it. She was shaking so hard now she could barely keep her teeth from chattering. Funny how your teeth could chatter when you’re burning up. Perspiration covered her skin. Her heart raced. She couldn’t get enough air.
What a fool she was. What a perfect idiot.
Yes, she loved Morgan Grady. Yes, she was madly in love with Morgan Grady, but how could she sell herself like this? How could she sign away her life?
A contract.
She’d signed a contract to become his wife.