Carrying The Sheikh's Baby. Heidi Rice
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Hired by the sheikh...
And expecting the royal heir!
When shy, academic Cat Smith is hired as a researcher by Sheikh Zane, she’s thrilled—and completely dazzled by their overwhelming chemistry! Cat knows a fling could compromise her professional credibility, but resisting Zane’s sensual caress feels utterly impossible. Until their passionate encounter has lasting consequences... Now carrying the heir to the kingdom means one thing—Cat must become Zane’s queen!
Enjoy this scandalous royal baby romance!
USA TODAY bestselling author HEIDI RICE lives in London, England. She is married with two teenage sons—which gives her rather too much of an insight into the male psyche—and also works as a film journalist. She adores her job, which involves getting swept up in a world of high emotion, sensual excitement, funny and feisty women, sexy and tortured men and glamorous locations where laundry doesn’t exist. Once she turns off her computer she often does chores—usually involving laundry!
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Carrying the Sheikh’s Baby
Heidi Rice
ISBN: 978-1-474-08730-8
CARRYING THE SHEIKH’S BABY
© 2018 Heidi Rice
Published in Great Britain 2018
by Mills & Boon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF
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To my best mate Catri O’Kane,
who helped me brainstorm this story
on a road trip in West Texas!
Contents
Dr Smith, you need to come to my office ASAP. You have a very important visitor who cannot be kept waiting.
CATHERINE SMITH PEDALLED through the gates of Cambridge’s Devereaux College at breakneck speed, her boss Professor Archibald Walmsley’s curt text making sweat trickle down her forehead and into her eyes.
Braking at the side of the redbrick Victorian monolith that housed the faculty offices, she leapt off the bike and rammed it into the cycle rack before swiping her brow. Rounding the building, she spotted a limousine with blacked-out windows and diplomatic flags parked in the no-parking zone by the front entrance. Her heartbeat kicked up several extra notches.
She recognised those flags.
So that solved the mystery of who had come to visit her: it had to be