Seductive Secrets. Cat Schield

      

      “I intend to get to know the real you.”

      When one of Charleston’s oldest families is infiltrated by a beautiful stranger, tycoon Paul Watts vows to reveal the truth. But then his grandfather’s health miraculously improves after mistaking Lia Marsh as a long-lost granddaughter, and Paul has no choice but to follow along. While he must expose Lia, soon he’s the one with the secret—he desires the woman who could destroy everything he holds dear...

      CAT SCHIELD is an award-winning author of contemporary romances for Mills & Boon Desire. She likes her heroines spunky and her heroes swoonworthy. While her jet- setting characters live all over the globe, Cat makes her home in Minnesota with her daughter, two opinionated Burmese cats and a goofy Doberman. When she’s not writing or walking dogs, she’s searching for the perfect cocktail or travelling to visit friends and family. Contact her at www.catschield.com

       Also by Cat Schield

      The Black Sheep’s Secret Child

      Little Secret, Red Hot Scandal

      The Heir Affair

      Upstairs Downstairs Baby

      Substitute Seduction

      Revenge with Benefits

      Two-Week Texas Seduction Taken

      by Storm

      Secret Child, Royal Scandal

      Discover more at millsandboon.co.uk

      Seductive Secrets

      Cat Schield

       www.millsandboon.co.uk

      ISBN: 978-1-474-09274-6

      SEDUCTIVE SECRETS

      © 2019 Cat Schield

      Published in Great Britain 2019

      by Mills & Boon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF

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      Contents

       Cover

       Back Cover Text

       About the Author

       Booklist

       Title Page

       Copyright

      Note to Readers

       One

       Two

       Three

       Four

       Five

       Six

       Seven

       Eight

       Nine

       Ten

       Eleven

       Epilogue

       About the Publisher

       One

      Paul Watts entered the hospital elevator and jabbed the button for the fourth floor with more force than necessary. In two hours he was leaving Charleston to attend a week-long cybersecurity conference. His gut told him this was a mistake. His eighty-five-year-old grandfather’s medical situation wasn’t improving. Grady had been hospitalized six days earlier with cerebral edema, a complication arising from the massive stroke he’d suffered three months earlier that had affected his speech