One Night With The Boss-Teresa Southwick

One Night With The Boss Teresa Southwick Harlequin Special Edition, Mar 18 2014, $5.50 ISBN: 9780373658084 In Blackwater Lake, Montana Olivia Lawson has been an office assistant for five years to her childhood friend internet guru Brady O’Keefe. After years of unrequited love for her employer that goes back to when she was fifteen, Olivia hands in her resignation once again; he rejects her quitting as he explains this is déjà vu, insists the firm needs her, and finally says nothing has changed in her life. She looks right at him as she lies when indignant Olivia tells Brady she has fallen in love and will leave town with her new boyfriend Leonard. As Brady interviews replacement candidates lined up by Liv, he schemes to keep her in his office especially after he realizes how much he would miss her sarcasm and that her HEA does not exist. For the cause, Brady begins to court His Girl Friday, but fails to understand how much he loves his Liv after years of subsetting her to his business only category until her two declarations of Leonard and later love left him jealous and speechless, and drove her diagonally across the country. The latest Bachelors of Blackwater Lake Big Sky Country romance (see Finding Family … And Forever?) is a warm fun tale made fresh by Brady, who hurt by love as a child compartmentalizes everyone to avoid emotional attachments. Readers will enjoy the changing relationship between the protagonists; as one word Leonard nukes Brady’s uninvolved life programming. Harriet Klausner