The Bravo Billionaire. Christine Rimmer

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      “Ms. Rimmer has developed into a major, major talent.”

      —Romantic Times Magazine

      His every move was so purposeful, so sure and so determined.

      His body was so strong and hard and big. Everything he did, he did better than anyone else.

      He had a law degree from Stanford, and a business degree from one of those snooty eastern colleges. He’d shot a charging rhino, wrestled alligators. He’d made love to the most beautiful women in the world, taken his father’s millions and turned them into billions.

      And once, long, long ago, he had been six years old. A little boy. A boy who woke up in the middle of the night and went into his baby brother’s room.

      Where he had been found the next morning, out cold on the floor, a large bloody bruise on the left side of his head.

      And the baby—vanished. Forever…

      “Famed for her deliciously different characters, Ms. Rimmer keeps the…love sizzling hot.”

      —Romantic Times Magazine

      CONVENIENTLY YOURS: Cast of Characters

      A Bravo Family Saga

      THE NINE-MONTH MARRIAGE

       —Cash Bravo and Abby Heller

      MARRIAGE BY NECESSITY

       —Nate Bravo and Megan kane

      PRACTICALLY MARRIED

       —Zach Bravo and Tess DeMarley

      MARRIED BY ACCIDENT

       —Melinda Bravo and Cole Yuma

      THE MILLIONAIRE SHE MARRIED

       —Jenna Bravo and Mack McGarrity

      THE M.D. SHE HAD TO MARRY

       —Lacey Bravo and Logan Severance

      THE MARRIAGE AGREEMENT

       —Marsh Bravo and Tory Winningham

      And watch for…

      MARRIAGE: OVERBOARD

       —Gwen Bravo McMillan and Rafe McMillan

      (Weekly serial at www.eHarlequin.com)

      THE MARRIAGE CONSPIRACY

       —Dekker (Smith) Bravo and Joleen Tilly

      (Coming in October only from Silhouette Special Edition)

      The Bravo Billionaire

      Christine Rimmer

       www.millsandboon.co.uk

      Dear Reader,

      I can hardly believe it. This book, The Bravo Billionaire, marks the eighth in my series of stories about the Bravo family. The first seven books, as you may know, appeared in the Silhouette Special Edition line. I started out thinking I was going to write only three Bravo books—the stories of three cousins: Cash, Nate and Zach.

      So much for what I started out thinking. Your response to the Bravos has been so enthusiastic, how could I help but write more Bravo tales?

      With The Bravo Billionaire, I had a great time creating a new branch—the L.A. branch—of the Bravo family. They are fabulously wealthy, and they live in a huge hilltop Bel Air mansion called Angel’s Crest. The hero, Jonas, is the man who has everything—except love, family and companionship. He swears he doesn’t want those things. But that’s before his mother’s will forces him into close contact with Emma Lynn Hewitt. Emma, a west Texas dog groomer with a heart as big as her home state, is determined to make of Jonas a kinder, gentler, better man….

      I do hope you enjoy this bigger-than-ever Bravo tale.

      All my very best,

      For Steve,

      always.

      Contents

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

      Chapter 12

      Chapter 13

      Chapter 14

      Chapter 15

      Chapter 16

      Chapter 17

      Chapter 18

      Chapter 19

      Chapter 20

      Chapter 21

      Chapter 22

      Chapter 23

      Chapter 24

      Chapter 25

      Chapter 1

      Jonas Bravo did not like to wait.

      Make no mistake. He knew how to wait. He was actually quite good at waiting—when he considered the wait worth it, when it would mean a fat return on an iffy investment, or a plum contract in his pocket.

      He could wait and he had waited. But he refused to wait unnecessarily, when waiting, as he saw it, would get him nowhere.

      People who made Jonas wait unnecessarily never did it more than once. Because the famous Bravo Billionaire had ways of showing his displeasure. He could do it with a look, with a certain inner stillness—a look and a stillness that made the object of his displeasure wonder just what kinds of scary, crazy things Jonas Bravo might do if pushed too far. They all knew the stories about him, about what he and his family had been through when he was a child, and the wild things he’d done during the earlier years of his manhood. So they wondered—and they worried.

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