Bravo Unwrapped. Christine Rimmer

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      What a night. Face-to-face with Buck Bravo again.

      And now she’d be expected to eat.

      So B.J. faked drinking her wine. She even managed to get a little food down. On the polite conversation front, she nodded and made interested noises when spoken to. And she scrupulously avoided looking directly at Buck. No point in going there, nosiree.

      Buck was, in all honesty, the man of the hour. There was talk that he’d get a Pulitzer for his last book. And the tabloids…to read what they wrote about him, you’d think every unattached woman in America longed to claim him for her very own.

      Every woman except B.J. She didn’t long to claim him. She only longed for him to go away.

      And soon he would go away. He’d go off and write his story and leave her alone to come to grips with the fact that she was going to have his baby….

      Dear Reader,

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      Executive Editor

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      Bravo Unwrapped

      Christine Rimmer

       www.millsandboon.co.uk

      Dear Reader,

      Strong women. You gotta love ’em. I do. I like to think that I am a strong woman. And I like to write about strong heroines, women who know what they want and aren’t afraid to go out and get it.

      Such a woman is B. J. Carlyle, the heroine of Bravo Unwrapped. B.J. is brilliant and, okay, she’s more than a little domineering. She loves pricey designer shoes and she’s a New Yorker through and through. She also happens to be pregnant, and she’s just decided that she’s no good at the man/woman thing. Her relationships somehow never work out. She’s giving up men.

      I know what you’re thinking: Not going to happen. You are so right. Because, of course, there’s the father of her baby, Buck Bravo, the one man she’s never been able to forget.

      Buck can’t forget her, either—and he doesn’t even know there’s a baby involved. Buck has decided he’s getting himself another chance with B.J., whether B.J. wants that chance or not. From New York to California and back again, Buck is determined to lay claim to the woman he knows is meant for him.

      Happy holidays everyone,

      Christine Rimmer

      For my dad, who always believed I could do anything I set out to do—and who made sure that I believed it, too.

      Contents

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      Chapter Nine

      Chapter Ten

      Chapter Eleven

      Chapter Twelve

      Chapter Thirteen

      Chapter Fourteen

      Chapter Fifteen

      Chapter Sixteen

      Chapter Seventeen

      Chapter Eighteen

      Chapter Nineteen

      Chapter Twenty

      Chapter Twenty-One

      Chapter Twenty-Two

      Chapter Twenty-Three

      Chapter Twenty-Four

       Bonus Materials

      Author Interview:

       A conversation with

       Christine Rimmer

      Recipe: Sierra Star Pumpkin Muffins

      The Ballad of Blake Bravo

      The Bravos: Heroes, Heroines and Their Stories

      Sneak Peak: Bravo Family Way

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      For B. J. Carlyle, features editor at Alpha magazine, that fateful day in late October started out in abject wretchedness—and СКАЧАТЬ