SECRET BABY SCANDAL
Bayou Billionaires #4
Joanne Rock
Releasing May 1st (Digital)
Releasing May 10th (Print)
Harlequin Desire
His
proposition: pretend they’re a couple to end a scandal. But she has secrets of
her own…
Tatiana
Doucet has dealt with sexy, arrogant athletes most of her life. But Jean-Pierre
Reynaud is a whole different animal—in bed and on the field. Unbeknownst to
him, their one amazing night produced a son. Now her family’s biggest football rival is back, offering a seductive wager she can’t
refuse.
Jean-Pierre
despises the media. When rumors fly, he knows a fake relationship is the
perfect diversion for the tabloids—and Tatiana’s unbridled passion is the
perfect diversion for Jean-Pierre. But when she drops a baby bombshell, the
scandal will rock them both!
Son?
Jean-Pierre
had taken hits from the toughest, strongest, meanest players in the NFL.
Afterward, as he lay in the grass with his ears ringing and his vision blurred,
he would struggle to snap out of the slow-motion fog that felt kind of like
being underwater.
That was
exactly how he felt walking into Tatiana’s apartment, her words slowly
permeating his consciousness along with the cry of an infant. Dazed, confused
and trying to stand up straight despite the floor shifting under his feet,
Jean-Pierre stood in her foyer and waited for her to return from wherever she’d
disappeared.
“Mr.
Reynaud?” An older woman in a simple gray dress stepped into the living area to
his right. “Miss Doucet asked if you wouldn’t mind joining her in the family
room. It’s just past the staircase on the left.” She pointed the way and then
went about her business, picking up a few things in the living room.
A bright
blue blanket. A baby bottle.
Seeing
that bottle was like the second hit when you were already down.
At the
same time, it was enough to make the mental fog evaporate and get his feet
moving.
Fast.
He
needed answers now. Hell, he needed answers months ago. Tatiana had done a
whole lot more than throw his career into a tailspin tonight with her unguarded
remark to a member of the press. She’d been hiding the biggest possible secret
that was going to bind their lives together forever.
“Tatiana?”
Her name was a sharp bark on his lips as he entered the spacious suite
overlooking Central Park.
Framed
playbills lined the walls along with photos of Tatiana and her family. Tatiana
with her father at her graduation from Columbia. The Doucets outside of a
downtown skyscraper with the brass name plaque of her prestigious law firm.
Every picture was a reminder of the life he might have had with her if her
family hadn’t turned her against him.
A blaze
crackled in a fireplace on the far side of the living area. And beside it, in
that warm glow of flickering light, he spotted her on the dark leather love
seat, cradling a tiny bundle of blankets to her breast. Tatiana’s dark brown
curls shielded her body as much as the blanket, the firelight making the skin
of one shoulder glow where she’d unfastened her dress to feed the baby.
Her
baby.
His…son.
Something
shifted inside Jean-Pierre, his whole world tipping on its axis as everything
changed irreversibly
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Four-time RITA nominee Joanne
Rock has never met a romance sub-genre she didn't like. The author of
over seventy novels enjoys writing contemporary romance and medieval
historicals alike, recently exploring Young Adult romance under a pseudonym. An
optimist by nature and perpetual seeker of silver linings, Joanne finds
romance–in all its forms-- fits her life outlook perfectly. When she's not
writing, Joanne enjoys travel, especially to see her favorite sports teams play
with her former sports editor husband and three athletic-minded sons.
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