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    The Venetian's Proposal

    The Venetian's Proposal

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    by Lee Wilkinson

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      ISBN-13: 9781459206861
    • Publisher: Harlequin
    • Publication date: 04/18/2011
    • Series: Harlequin Presents Series , #208
    • Sold by: HARLEQUIN
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 192
    • Sales rank: 295,922
    • File size: 244 KB

    Lee Wilkinson writing career began with short stories and serials for magazines and newspapers before going on to novels. She now has more than twenty Mills & Boon romance novels published. Amongst her hobbies are reading, gardening, walking, and cooking but travelling (and writing of course) remains her major love. Lee lives with her husband in a 300-year-old stone cottage in a picturesque Derbyshire village, which, unfortunately, gets cut off by snow most winters!

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    The Venetian's Proposal

    By Lee Wilkinson

    Harlequin Enterprises, Ltd.

    Copyright © 2004 Harlequin Enterprises, Ltd.
    All right reserved.
    ISBN: 0-373-80617-5

    Chapter One

    "PLEASE come in and take a seat, Mrs Whitney."

    Tall and slender in a navy suit, her corn-coloured hair taken up in a smooth knot, Nicola found herself ushered into a room that was solidly old-fashioned. Plum-coloured carpets, heavy velvet curtains, and above an empty fireplace a wooden mantel that held a ticking clock.

    After coffee and condolences, Mr Harthill got down to business. "The last time my client was in London he asked me to draw up a new will. In my capacity as executor, I can now tell you that you are the sole beneficiary of that will."

    Staring across a polished mahogany desk at the saggyjowled solicitor sitting impassively in his brown leather chair, Nicola could only manage to stutter, "I - I beg your pardon?"

    "You are the sole beneficiary," Mr Harthill Senior repeated patiently. "When all the formalities have been observed, you will be a wealthy woman."

    A polite letter summoning Nicola to the West End offices of Harthill, Harthill and Berry had merely stated that Mr John Turner had passed away some three weeks earlier, and that if she would call she would learn 'something to her advantage'.

    Shocked and saddened by the death of a man she had known for such a short time but liked immensely, she had kept the appointment.

    The news that John Turner had made her the sole beneficiary to a fortune she hadn't been aware existed had come as a bombshell.

    (Continues...)


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    A holiday romance is the last thing Nicola Whitney is looking for in Venice. But when she meets Dominic Loredan the sparks of attraction are as instantaneous as they are intense-and they immediately find themselves sharing a night of unbelievable passion!

    Only, then Dominic suggests that Nicola become his mistress. She's horrified-did he seduce her for a reason? Nicola's uncertain. Still, she knows she wants this gorgeous, brooding Italian-on any terms!

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