title: The Prince's Nine-Month Scandal: A passionate story of scandal, pregnancy and romance (Scandalous Royal Brides)
author:  Caitlin Crews 
description: Caitlin Crews discovered her first romance novel at the age of twelve and has since began her life-long love affair with romance novels, many of which she insists on keeping near her at all times. She currently lives in California, with her animator/comic book artist husband and their menagerie of ridiculous animals.
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  _**Only a royal wedding…**_
  
  Bitter life lessons have taught Crown Prince Maksim Yurkovich that duty must
  come before desire. His country needs an heir, so when he discovers his lover
  can’t have children, he must sever their ties. Only Maks can’t resist spending
  one last night in her bed.
  
   _ **…can avert this royal scandal!**_
  
  Now he faces the biggest diplomatic crisis of his life. Against all odds,
  Gillian Harris has become pregnant. Maks’s royal reserve masks the heart of a
  fierce Cossack warrior—one who is not above using their mutual passion to
  convince a hurt, wary Gillian that she must be his queen!
  
   _ **“Cold?” Maks purred, pushing even closer. “Let me warm you.”**_
  
  “I’m not co—” But Gillian wasn’t allowed to finish the thought.
  
  His mouth covered hers in a kiss that demanded full submission and
  reciprocation.
  
  Her body, the same body that had shied away from his every touch, now
  capitulated without a single conscious thought on her part. She san