From Paris with Love Collection
From Paris with Love
Jennie Lucas, Pamela Brooks and Merline Lovelace
From Venice with Love
Trish Morey, Alison Roberts and Kat Cantrell
From Sydney with Love
Kelly Hunter, Robyn Grady and Lindsay Armstrong
From New York with Love
Carole Mortimer, Nikki Logan and Wendy Etherington
From Florence with Love
Caroline Anderson, Catherine George and Lucy Gordon
From London with Love
Sarah Mallory and Lyn Stone
From Paris with Love
The Consequences of That Night
Jennie Lucas
Bound by a Baby
Pamela Brooks
A Business Engagement
Merline Lovelace
The Consequences of That Night
Jennie Lucas
USA Today-bestselling author JENNIE LUCAS’s parents owned a bookstore and she grew up surrounded by books, dreaming about faraway lands. A fourth-generation Westerner, she went east at sixteen to boarding school on scholarship, wandered the world, got married, then finally worked her way through college before happily returning to her hometown. A 2010 RITA® finalist and 2005 Golden Heart winner, she lives in Idaho with her husband and children
A BABY.
Emma Hayes put a hand over her slightly curved belly, swaying as the double-decker bus traveled deeper into central London in the gray afternoon rain.
A baby.
For ten weeks, she’d tried not to hope. Tried not to think about it. Even when she’d gone to her doctor’s office that morning, she’d been bracing herself for some problem, to be told that she must be brave.
Instead she’d seen a rapid steady beat on the sonogram as her doctor pointed to the flash on the screen. “See the heartbeat? ‘Hi, Mum.’”
“I’m really pregnant?” she’d said through dry lips.
The man’s eyes twinkled through his spectacles. “As pregnant as can be.”
“And the baby’s—all right?”
“It’s all going perfectly. Textbook, I’d say.” The doctor had given her a big smile. “I think it’s safe to tell your husband now, Mrs. Hayes.”
Her husband. The words echoed through Emma’s mind as she closed her eyes, leaning back into her seat on the top deck of the Number 9 bus. Her husband. How she wished there was such a person, waiting for her in a homey little cottage—a man who’d kiss her with a cry of joy at the news of his coming child. But in direct opposition to