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  Will she prove as flawed as Madeline?

  That was the question that haunted him.

  Copyright © 2014 by Julia James

  ISBN-13: 9781460331354

  SECRETS OF A RUTHLESS TYCOON

  Copyright © 2014 by Cathy Williams

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  All about the author…Cathy Williams

  CATHY WILLIAMS was born in the West Indies and has been writing Harlequin® romances for some fifteen 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 lives in 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 daughters’ 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 Harlequin Presents 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.

  Other titles by Cathy Williams available in ebook:

  ENTHRALLED BY MORETTI

  HIS TEMPORARY MISTRESS

  A DEAL WITH DI CAPUA

  THE SECRET CASELLA BABY

  Power, wealth and beautiful women at his beck and call!

  Leo Spencer has it all, but there’s one thing his luxurious lifestyle can’t give him—the truth about his past. His search for answers leads him to Brianna Sullivan, hidden in the Irish countryside, where she soon proves to be a distraction he never anticipated….

  Brianna is unlike any of the women this ruthless tycoon is used to, and her innocence has him captivated…and ready to seduce the secrets of his past from her lips! But when Brianna learns his true identity, their undeniable connection will erupt in a whole new kind of chemistry!

  She had let down her defenses, had thawed. Leo was nothing at all like any of the men she had ever met in her entire life.

  “What are you doing?” Brianna asked weakly.

  “I’m touching you. Do you want me to stop?”

  “This is crazy.”

  “This is taking a chance.”

  “I don’t even…know you….”

  No, she certainly didn’t. And yet, strangely, she knew more about him than any other woman did. Not that there was any point in getting tied down with semantics. “What does that have to do with wanting someone?” His voice was a low murmur in her ear and as he slid his hand along her waist, she could feel all rational thought disappearing.

  So, she thought, fighting down the temptation to moan as his fingers continued to stroke her bare skin, he wasn’t going to be sticking around. He was as nomadic as she was rooted to this place. But wasn’t that what taking chances was all about?

  Contents

  CHAPTER ONE

  CHAPTER TWO

  CHAPTER THREE

  CHAPTER FOUR

  CHAPTER FIVE

  CHAPTER SIX

  CHAPTER SEVEN

  CHAPTER EIGHT

  CHAPTER NINE

  CHAPTER TEN

  EXCERPT