SARA CRAVEN SUMMER COLLECTION
WED TO THE ITALIAN
Bartaldi’s Bride © 1999 Sara Craven Rome’s Revenge © 2001 Sara Craven The Forced Marriage © 2002 Sara Craven
HER GREEK GROOM
The Tycoon’s Mistress © 2000 Sara Craven Smokescreen Marriage © 2001 Sara Craven His Forbidden Bride © 2003 Sara Craven
HIS RELUCTANT BRIDE
The Marchese’s Love-Child © 2004 Sara Craven The Count’s Blackmail Bargain © 2005 Sara Craven In the Millionaire’s Possession © 2005 Sara Craven
MARRIAGE RECLAIMED
Marriage at a Distance © 1998 Sara Craven Marriage Under Suspicion © 2002 Sara Craven The Marriage Truce © 2002 Sara Craven
Published in Great Britain 2016
by Mills & Boon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF
All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. This edition is published by arrangement with Harlequin Books S.A.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, locations and incidents are purely fictional and bear no relationship to any real life individuals, living or dead, or to any actual places, business establishments, locations, events or incidents. Any resemblance is entirely coincidental.
By payment of the required fees, you are granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right and licence to download and install this e-book on your personal computer, tablet computer, smart phone or other electronic reading device only (each a “Licensed Device”) and to access, display and read the text of this e-book on-screen on your Licensed Device. Except to the extent any of these acts shall be permitted pursuant to any mandatory provision of applicable law but no further, no part of this e-book or its text or images may be reproduced, transmitted, distributed, translated, converted or adapted for use on another file format, communicated to the public, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of publisher.
® and ™ are trademarks owned and used by the trademark owner and/or its licensee. Trademarks marked with ® are registered with the United Kingdom Patent Office and/or the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market and in other countries.
ISBN: 978-1-474-05666-3
Version: 2018-02-12
THE weather in Rome had been swelteringly hot, with clear blue skies and unremitting sunshine, but, as she drove north, Clare could see inky clouds massing over the Appenines and hear a sour mutter of thunder in the distance.
Out of one storm, straight into another, she thought ruefully, urging the hired Fiat round a tortuous bend.
The first storm, however, had been of human origin, and had brought in its wake an abrupt termination to her contracted three months in Italy teaching English to the children of a wealthy Roman family.
And all because the master of the house had a roving eye, and hands to match.
‘It is not your fault, signorina,’ Signora Dorelli, immaculate in grey silk and pearls, had told her that morning, her eyes and mouth steely. ‘Do not think that I blame you for my husband’s foolish behaviour. You have conducted yourself well. But I should have known better than to bring an attractive young woman into