MELANIE yest -3 imi melee Mintle tios Rela‘You are under my employ as a _ fill-in housekeeper,’ he said. ‘Don’t go getting any ideas of filling in other areas of my life.’ She gave him a withering look. ‘You would have to pay me a king’s ransom to become your latest mistress,’ she said. Alessandro felt his lower spine zap with searing heat. ‘Dangerous words, Rachel,’ he warned silkily. ‘Don’t go throwing challenges down at me like that. | might just take you up on it.’ Rachel glared at him. ‘People like you think you can buy anything you want, don’t you? But | am not selling myself—and certainly not to you.’ ‘Sleeping rough not your thing any more, little rich girl?’ he asked, with a mocking slant to his mouth. She ground her teeth. ‘I am offering to work as your housekeeper. Nothing else.’About the Author MELANIE MILBURNE Says: ‘| am married to a surgeon, Steve, and have two gorgeous sons, Paul and Phil. | live in Hobart, Tasmania, where | enjoy an active life as a long-distance runner and a nationally ranked top ten Master’s swimmer. | also have a Master’s Degree in Education, but my children totally turned me off the idea of teaching! When not running or swimming | write, and when I'm not doing all of the above I'm reading. And if someone could invent a way for me to read during a four-kilometre swim Id be even happier!’ Recent titles by the same author: THE WEDDING CHARADE- SHOCK: ONE-NIGHT HEIR- SCANDAL: UNCLAIMED LOVE-CHILD~ THE MELENDEZ FORGOTTEN MARRIAGE “The Sabbatini Brothers Did you know that Melanie also writes for