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**𝙆𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙚**
𝘿𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙩, 𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙧 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙙𝙚𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙢𝙮 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙟𝙤𝙗.
I’m head of the London branch of Carlson Publishing and if I can organize the hell out of my three older step brothers, I can handle one difficult best-selling author.
If that requires me to drive half a day to a remote Cornish cottage to get his contract signed, then that’s what I’ll do.
But when the author turns out to be the tall, gorgeous man who made me weak in the knees during our one-night stand two months before, a publishing contract is the last thing on my mind.
I try to shake off my attraction and remind myself that he’s a charming player. But Drew’s mellow, throaty Scottish accent sends vibrations of pleasure shooting through my body with every word he utters.
𝙃𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙢𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙢𝙮𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛.
𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙨𝙣’𝙩 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙄’𝙢 𝙬𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙗𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙖𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙣.
**𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙬**
The first time I met 𝙆𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙨𝙤𝙣, we stumbled into her hotel suite without a clue who the other was. 𝘼𝙣 𝙖𝙢𝙖𝙯𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖 𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙮 𝙤𝙣𝙚-𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙… Until I spotted her ID and realized she was about to be my boss.
I should have never left the way I did, and fate certainly had a way of ramming home that mistake. Now I’m left trying to pick up the broken pieces of my life, one painful day at a time.
Everything changed for me that night, and I’ve tried to erase it from my memory, but her beautiful face has taken up residence in my head. I know I should stay away, but the moment I see her again, I know I can’t. Not until I can apologize and make things right with her.
𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙩’𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙣 … 𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙬𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙣 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙨𝙤 𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙮 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙣𝙙.
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Living in Sydney, Australia with her husband and three children, she is lucky to be able to spend plenty of time on beautiful beaches reading books or dreaming up new stories.
Introduced as a teenager to romance novels by an aunt, she is now an avid reader of all kinds of fiction. She particularly loves a steamy sexy romance especially one with a billionaire or military backdrop. She also loves the challenge to the mind and nerves of an exciting suspenseful murder mystery.
She has recently ticked off a bucket list item to write her own sexy romantic stories about billionaire former military alphas finding their HEA with strong sassy women. She has even managed to weave lots of steamy romantic beach scenes into those stories.
This is her second interconnected trilogy.
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