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The third book in the Sexy Little Secrets trilogy reunites old flames April and Jamie ten years after their mysterious split. Jamie’s demanding answers—and after a little persuasion, April might just give him some...
It’s been ten years since April Darlington-Hume broke my heart—ten painful years of not knowing why she ran off. But after a
I’ve agreed to sell her my father’s company, if she admits I’m the only man who’s ever given her
But it’s hard to be cold and calculating when we’re alone together. Every time we toy with each other, it only reminds me that beneath our scorching desire, there was always a deeper connection that burned even hotter...
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Formerly a video and radio producer, CHRISTY McKELLEN now spends her time writing provocative, passionate, seductive romance. When she’s not writing she can be found enjoying life with her husband and three children, walking for pleasure, and researching other people’s deepest secrets and desires. Christy loves to hear from readers. You can get hold of her at christymckellen.com.
She Devil
Christy McKellen
ISBN: 978-1-474-08707-0
SHE DEVIL
© 2019 Christy McKellen
Published in Great Britain 2019
by Mills & Boon, an imprint of HarperCollins
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This book is dedicated to my incredibly talented
editor, Vic Britton, whose encouragement, support and
insight has brought out the best in my stories and in
me as a writer.
Contents
Note to Readers
April
SEX ISN’T ABOUT love and connection; it’s about power and control.
That’s what I’ve come to realise over the last ten years.
Yes, okay, I accept that it can also be used for the purposes of procreation and continuing a lineage—or, in my father’s case, providing an heir to his vast business empire—and I know that some people even
And, yes, it is true what people say about me—and when I say
Because I’ve had to be.
‘Hard as nails’ is one of the things I hear people say about me behind my back.
I like that.
Nails are useful items—essential, even. Structures would fall down without them.
‘As cold as a polar bear’s arsehole’—that one I’m not quite so keen on.
But I wouldn’t have risen to the position of Chief Operating Officer at DH Worldwide, my father’s aforementioned multinational corporation, if I hadn’t developed the ability to ignore what people say about me.
Except this time when I say
Because it’s had to be.
I’ve never been able to tell him exactly why I finished our eighteen-month relationship during our third year at St Andrew’s University, so he’s chosen to think the very worst of me—and to make sure everyone knows it too.