Betrayal

Betrayal
Maggie Cox

Old sins…New scandals!Brenna Stewart is deeply suspicious of Fin Malone. He’s best friends with her ex, a Hollywood director who abandoned Brenna the minute he found out about her pregnancy! She can’t trust her ex, or his sudden interest in their daughter, so why is Fin here?Fin claims he’s only the messenger, not here to split Brenna’s small family up. Little Nancy is instantly hooked by Fin’s easy charm, but Brenna won’t let Fin turn her own head. She keeps him at arm’s length, until the press gets wind of Nancy’s existence and Brenna has no choice but to seek out Fin’s protection…

Old sins… New scandals!

Brenna Stewart is deeply suspicious of Fin Malone. He’s best friends with her ex, a Hollywood director who abandoned Brenna the minute he found out about her pregnancy! She can’t trust her ex, or his sudden interest in their daughter, so why is Fin here?

Fin claims he’s only the messenger, not here to split Brenna’s small family up. Little Nancy is instantly hooked by Fin’s easy charm, but Brenna won’t let Fin turn her own head. She keeps him at arm’s length, until the press gets wind of Nancy’s existence and Brenna has no choice but to seek out Fin’s protection…

Betrayal

Maggie Cox

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E-book Edition © June 2013 ISBN: 9781472017079

Version date: 2018-07-23

About the Author

The day MAGGIE COX saw the film version of Wuthering Heights, with a beautiful Merle Oberon and a very handsome Laurence Olivier, was the day she became hooked on romance. From that day onwards she spent a lot of time dreaming up her own romances, secretly hoping that one day she might become published and get paid for doing what she loved most! Now that her dream is being realised, she wakes up every morning and counts her blessings. She is married to a gorgeous man, and is the mother of two wonderful sons. Her two other great passions in life – besides her family and reading/writing – are music and films.

Maggie also writes for Mills & Boon

Modern Romance.

May the power of love and hope always prevail over darkness.

Table of Contents

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Chapter One

When the knock on the door she’d been expecting finally came, Brenna experienced a flood of panic so acute that for a moment she felt like she was plunging down the steepest ravine in an out-of-control car.

With all her heart she wanted to turn and run. But run where? Ultimately there was no escape from the situation she was in. She knew that. Besides, she wasn’t the running-away type.