The Housekeeper's Awakening

The Housekeeper's Awakening
Sharon Kendrick

At her boss’s beck and call…Recovering from a terrible car accident, world-renowned playboy Luis Martinez is bored, grumpy and frustrated. He’s sick of nurses fussing over him, so he fires the lot and demands his sweet, innocent housekeeper massage him back to health!Carly Conner has spent her life trying not to be noticed – but now, with her boss looking at her differently, every day the tantalising tension between them grows. After Luis whisks her away to his villa in the south of France, how long will she be able to deny the temptation he poses… especially when he makes a second shocking proposition?Discover more at www.millsandboon.co.uk/sharonkendrick

‘Surely there must be somebody else who could do it?’ Carly said.

‘But I don’t want anyone else doing it—I want you,’ Luis said. ‘After all, I am the one paying your salary, aren’t I?’

Carly’s hands balled into two fists, because now he had her in a corner and they both knew it. He paid her a generous amount of money, most of which she squirrelled away towards her goal of getting to medical school.

The smile had now left his lips.

‘I am growing bored with this discussion,’ he snapped. ‘Are you prepared to help me out or not?’

She recognised the implicit threat behind his words. Help me out or else.

Or else what? Go out and find a new job?

Go out and find a new job? One which wouldn’t leave her with so much free time to study for her medical school exams?

‘I’d be prepared to do it if you were prepared to give me some sort of bonus,’ she said suddenly.

‘Danger money, you mean?’ he mocked.

With a grimace he swung his long legs over the side of the massage bed, but not before Carly had seen a peek of hair-roughened thigh as the robe flapped open.

‘Yes, that’s right. Danger money,’ she croaked, quickly averting her gaze once more. ‘I couldn’t have put it better myself.’

AT HIS SERVICE (#ulink_99ced02d-ab11-57cc-bcca-f262acfd99ee)

From glass slippers to silk sheets

From washing his sheets to slipping between them, from ironing his shirts to ripping them off … When the job description said ‘full benefits package’, this wasn’t quite what she had in mind!

But when you work for a man who’s used to getting everything he wants, how do you stop yourself becoming his latest acquisition?

Dear Reader (#u7ff5216e-ecde-5c7f-a9b1-3101e5637293),

One hundred. Doesn’t matter how many times I say it, I still can’t believe that’s how many books I’ve written. It’s a fabulous feeling but more fabulous still is the news that Mills & Boon are issuing every single one of my backlist as digital titles. Wow. I can’t wait to share all my stories with you - which are as vivid to me now as when I wrote them.

There’s BOUGHT FOR HER HUSBAND, with its outrageously macho Greek hero and A SCANDAL, A SECRET AND A BABY featuring a very sexy Tuscan. THE SHEIKH’S HEIR proved so popular with readers that it spent two weeks on the USA Today charts and…well, I could go on, but I’ll leave you to discover them for yourselves.

I remember the first line of my very first book: “So you’ve come to Australia looking for a husband?” Actually, the heroine had gone to Australia to escape men, but guess what? She found a husband all the same! The man who inspired that book rang me up recently and when I told him I was beginning my 100

story and couldn’t decide what to write, he said, “Why don’t you go back to where it all started?”

So I did. And that’s how A ROYAL VOW OF CONVENIENCE was born. It opens in beautiful Queensland and moves to England and New York. It’s about a runaway princess and the enigmatic billionaire who is infuriated by her, yet who winds up rescuing her. But then, she goes and rescues him… Wouldn’t you know it?

I’ll end by saying how very grateful I am to have a career I love, and to thank each and every one of you who has supported me along the way. You really are very dear readers.

Love,

Sharon xxx

Mills & Boon are proud to present a thrilling digital collection of all Sharon Kendrick’s novels and novellas for us to celebrate the publication of her amazing and awesome 100th book! Sharon is known worldwide for her likeable, spirited heroines and her gorgeous, utterly masculine heroes.

SHARON KENDRICK once won a national writing competition, describing her ideal date: being flown to an exotic island by a gorgeous and powerful man. Little did she realise that she’d just wandered into her dream job! Today she writes for Mills & Boon, featuring her often stubborn but always to-die-for heroes and the women who bring them to their knees. She believes that the best books are those you never want to end. Just like life…

The Housekeeper’s Awakening

Sharon Kendrick

www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)

With special thanks to George Tilbury and Erika Ring, for teaching me how bodies heal.

Also, for invaluable insights into the world of motor racing, thank you to Keith Roberts and team-owner Roland Dane. Roland, in particular, helped breathe life into Luis Martinez!

And to Peter Crone for his invaluable help with wind-farms (although they appear in Murat’s book—SEDUCED BY THE SULTAN!)

Contents

Cover (#u5301a2a2-45e9-5279-8c97-49a0896788a1)

Introduction (#ua2a5490a-554a-5de9-bc06-aeed17f52055)

AT HIS SERVICE (#u6bcfb19e-d8d3-5cc7-baea-9450e3888462)

Dear Reader (#u636e82cd-cfeb-5043-bac7-fdbf88ef8f27)

About the Author (#u80e18b87-3acd-548e-9dd5-633d7c5c8de5)

Title Page (#u2146b9e0-7654-5099-ba33-01e33ac87602)

Acknowledgements (#uf2cafb0e-8eac-52d0-a022-d862bd83ea9a)

CHAPTER ONE (#u1fea098f-51e4-57c8-9921-187ee20fabb3)

CHAPTER TWO (#u2228a559-6034-52b5-9b58-b71d1b767838)

CHAPTER THREE (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER FOUR (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER FIVE (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER SIX (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER SEVEN (#litres_trial_promo)