Emma Maxwell knew her stepmother, Celeste, must have some scheme in mind, even before they arrived in Venice. When she heard what it was, Emma wanted no part of it. Then she met Count Vidal Cesare, on whom Celeste had designs, and decided he was old enough and experienced enough to look after himself.Emma was very firm about her own future. She informed the Dowager Contessa, "No, signora. When I marry it will be for love. And my husband will love me . . . and only me!"

Mills & Boon are excited to present The Anne Mather Collection – the complete works by this classic author made available to download for the very first time! These books span six decades of a phenomenal writing career, and every story is available to read unedited and untouched from their original release. When passion is stronger than reason... Oliver Ferreira desired Grace more than any woman he'd ever known. However, he couldn't take what wasn't his... Grace worked for Oliver's brother, Tom; in fact, rumor had it that she was Tom's mistress. Common sense and experience told Oliver to stay away. But desire burning between them, Oliver knew it was only a matter of time before he made this forbidden mistress his ...

Could she disguise her love for Jared? Rhia couldn't refuse to impersonate her sister--after Valentina had fled--to aid in Glyn Fraser's recovery. It was Val's fault the young man had been blinded in a car crash. Jared Fraser, Glyn's autocratic uncle, who had flown in from Canada to take charge, saw it that way, too. And even if conscience-stricken Rhia hadn't agreed, Jared would have found a way to make her. Soon, however the simple well-intentioned deception got way out of hand. And for Rhia the problem wasn't Glyn--it was Jared!

Alex yearned for freedom! Brought up in a French convent, Alex had been sadly neglected by her archaeologist father. He died leaving her starved for affection, desperate to love and be loved--desperate enough to trick her father's friend, Jason Tarrant, into becoming her guardian. Jason knew the dangerous involved in taking a beautiful young girl to his isolated South American ranch, but he couldn't resist her wistful appeal. And Alex soon discovered that she couldn't resist his disturbing male magnetism, or her own awakening desires.

Mills & Boon are excited to present The Anne Mather Collection – the complete works by this classic author made available to download for the very first time! These books span six decades of a phenomenal writing career, and every story is available to read unedited and untouched from their original release. Is it time to reveal her secret? Widowed Charlotte never expects to see Logan Kennedy again. But she does – and in the most unlikely of places! Charlotte has travelled halfway across the world to the Virgin islands to start a new life with her young son Robert – but how can she move on now Logan has appeared on the scene? Especially when she realises her attraction to him as powerful as ever... Can they ever forgive each other for the mistakes of the past? And how will Logan react when he discovers Charlotte's secret - that Robert is in fact Logan's son?!

The man of her fantasies belonged to another—her daughterSlim, lovely Laura Fox didn't look like the mother of a twenty-one-year-old, although her safe, predictable life—save the occasional run-in with her headstrong daughter--quite befitted that of a country matron.Her world turned upside down when she met Jake Lombardi. Was it simply lust for something she'd never had—or did this passionate man's potent sensuality savage her emotions and lay bare the unguarded hunger of her soul? She despised him for making her want him. And oh, how Laura wanted him. But he was too young, too rich . . . and involved with her own daughter!

One night was all she'd wanted... Few of Beth's students would have recognized her as the seductive charmer who crashed a posh London party, commanded the immediate attention of Alex Thiarchos, brazenly seduced him...and disappeared. But her mission was accomplished. She was pregnant. And she was happily and quite determinedly alone. Surely the haunting image of her first and only lover--the father of her child--would fade in time? Wrong. A campus tragedy brought Alex back into her life, stirring needs, desires and complications Beth didn't want. Now Alex knew heartache firsthand, and this time he wouldn't let her go!

The child of a broken marriage, seventeen-year-old Tamsyn wasn't at all looking forward to going to Wales to visit the father she hardly knew—until she arrived there and met Hywel Benedict.Her first feelings of antagonism towards him soon changed into something so deep and violent that they threatened to overwhelm her completely, and it was clear that she affected him in some way -- but marriage? No, he said. He was too old for her, her father's contemporary, not hers. It would not be fair. And besides, there were -- other complications.Or did it all add up to the fact that he didn't really want her?

Mills & Boon are excited to present The Anne Mather Collection – the complete works by this classic author made available to download for the very first time! These books span six decades of a phenomenal writing career, and every story is available to read unedited and untouched from their original release. Antonia does not want to get involved with Reed Gallagher. Reed may be impossibly gorgeous – but he is way out of her league, and engaged to another woman. Antonia should focus on her job, and providing for her little girl. So why is she so irresistibly drawn to him...? Already reeling from one disastrous relationship, Antonia knows she should avoid a man with whom she can have no future – but her heart doesn't seem to be listening...