BEDDED BY THE BILLIONAIRE - Leanne Banks
The Billionaires Club, Book 1
Silhouette Desire #1863
ISBN (13): 978-0-373-76863-9
ISBN (10): 0-37376863-X
April 2008
Contemporary Series Romance

Las Vegas, Nevada ~ Present Day

Single and pregnant, Lilli McCall doesn’t need the stress of strangers knocking on her door looking for money just because Tony, the deceased father of her baby, left a few unpaid bills. No, she intends to raise her baby without help from the powerful and rich DeLuca family. But that all changes the day Max DeLuca arrives on her doorstep with an offer: sign away her child’s rights to its father’s inheritance. Lilli doesn’t want the money and she has no intention of letting Max into her child’s life. But when it appears that the mafia is after Lilli and her baby for Tony’s unpaid loans, it’s up to Max to step in and protect her. And he does this by moving her into his house.

Max learned early in life not to give his heart to a woman. It only brings heartache and despair in the end. He’s immediately suspicious of Lilli’s motives for getting pregnant and even more of her refusal to take help from him. However, the baby she carries is a DeLuca and must be protected until the threat dies down. Max didn’t expect Lilli to bring this feeling of happiness and contentedness into his life, along with a sudden desire to make their arrangement into a marriage.

Lilli is as independent as they come, and her refusal to seek help from the DeLuca family is reinforced as BEDDED BY THE BILLIONAIRE opens. Tony DeLuca wasn’t much of a person alive, but dead, his legacy lives on with strangers continually harassing Lilli for repayment. She’d heard about Max being coldhearted, and her opinion doesn’t change after first meeting him. But gradually, as they get to know each other, Lilli starts breaking down the walls of ice Max has put up. For Max, Lilli is like sunshine coming into his life. She brightens his day and makes him want to wake up each morning. Preferably with her next to him in bed.

However, hanging over Max and Lilli are the circumstances of the baby’s conception. Lilli thought she knew Tony, but in hindsight knows she didn’t. It takes her a while to realize that Max is not Tony, and that Max is a vulnerable man inside. But Max has Lilli feeling emotions and needs that a very pregnant woman shouldn’t be having. The chemistry burns between them, and once they give into it, then BEDDED BY THE BILLIONAIRE sizzles with sensuality. The ending is somewhat abrupt, but will leave readers satisfied.

Passion and emotions run high as a billionaire’s life is rocked by a beautiful woman who shows him how to love. Don’t miss one minute of Leanne Banks’s BEDDED BY THE BILLIONAIRE.

Patti Fischer