Alexandra Hill is worlds away from Max Goodwin's usual choice of glamorous employee. But this CEO needs a secretary--fast. He hires Alex, with one condition: a makeover! Soon she's turned from dowdy assistant to stunning beauty--and Max's thoughts turn from professional to very personal indeed......
He wore jeans, a khaki bush shirt and desert boots, all visible since his feet were up on the desk. His dark hair was ruffled and there were blue shadows on his jaw. The windows were open and the roses in the garden below were in bloom. So was the star jasmine creeper clin...
His secretary, Alice Hawthorn, grey-haired and in her fifties, raised her eyebrows. ‘Francis Theron, I gather?’ ‘You gather right,’ Reith agreed. ‘He doesn’t believe I’m a suitable person to be—’ he paused and grimaced ‘—within a hundred miles of his beloved winery, no doubt. Despite the fact he’...
Her expression was completely bemused. ‘I don’t believe it…’ Julia Nixon, her colleague and friend, put her red high heels on the dull commercial-grade carpet of the busy TV newsroom and wheeled herself in her office chair from her cubicle to Bridget’s cubicle, next door. She scanned the picture ...
She hadn’t wanted to get dressed, she hadn’t wanted breakfast, she hadn’t wanted to do anything she usually did. Since she wasn’t running a temperature, and had no other symptoms, Liz had concluded that her daughter had picked up her own uneasy vibes after another restless night. ‘Go,’ Mary had s...
He plunged into the shrubbery, issuing a terse warning to her over his shoulder to be careful because the dog, in its pain, could bite. The next few minutes were chaotic as Brett captured then subdued the terrified dog, a black-and-white border collie. How, Holly had no idea, but he did, and a lo...
Mia spent most of the day sitting in her office talking on the phone and working on the computer. She’d tossed and turned all night under the twin weights of losing Bellbird and what she thought of as the irrefutable knowledge that Carlos was still in love with Nina, much as he might wish otherwi...