When Italian billionaire Ricardo Emiliani first laid eyes on English rose Lucy Mattron, the ruthless businessman was determined to possess her. Shy, innocent and guileless, Lucy might have been as far removed from the glamorous, sophisticated and vacuous women he usually dated as it was possible to get, but nothing and nobody was going to stop Ricardo from seducing the English beauty. Unable to resist the handsome Italian, Lucy soon found herself falling head over heels in love with Ricardo. Theirs was initially meant to be a holiday romance, but when Lucy found out that she was carrying Ricardo’s child, the handsome Italian’s sense of honor compelled him to ask for Lucy’s hand in marriage. Knowing that she couldn’t possibly say no to him, Lucy accepted his convenient marriage proposal. But her hopes for a happy ever after were soon crushed…

Plunged into a world of glamour and decadence, Lucy soon began to feel out of her depth playing the role of wife to a man as rich and powerful as Ricardo. Pushed over the edge by her feelings of inadequacy and by her low self-esteem, Lucy soon realized that accepting Ricardo’s marriage proposal was the biggest mistake of her life. How on earth was she going to be a good mother to their unborn child when she was constantly being dogged by jibes and snide comments from Ricardo’s high society friends? And how could a man as attractive, debonair and urbane as Ricardo possibly remain faithful to somebody like her, when he was constantly surrounded by a bevy of beautiful women?

The birth of their baby and Ricardo’s insistence that his son be looked after by a nanny only served to compound Lucy’s feelings of incompetence. Alone, scared and vulnerable, Lucy decided that she couldn’t possibly spend the rest of her life like that, so she did the unthinkable and left her husband and her two-month old baby in Italy to return to England. But being separated from her child had broken her heart and Lucy decided to go back to Italy and confront her husband and claim back her child. But Ricardo is not a man who easily forgives….and he certainly does not forget!

Ricardo was flabbergasted when his wife had abandoned him and their child without a second thought – and he was equally gobsmacked when Lucy waltzed back into his Lake Garda mansion and demanded to see baby Marco! Ricardo is determined to make Lucy pay…by keeping her captive on his private island – and by ruthlessly seducing her…

Kate Walker’s latest Modern Romance, Kept for Her Baby, is a superbly emotional and highly poignant tale of unforgettable passion and devastating choices that, once again, kept me in thrall from beginning to end! In Kept for Her Baby, Kate Walker has written a powerful tale imbued with sensuality and pathos that had me reaching for the tissues and kept me engrossed and frantically turning the pages in the early hours of the morning.

Kate Walker’s name on a book cover is a surefire guarantee of high quality romantic fiction and her legions of readers will certainly lap up this enthralling tale from one of Mills and Boon’s most outstanding writers!

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