Seduction in a Suit: An Office Romance Collection

Say goodbye to a typical day at the office and get ready for a whole new kind of workplace hazard. With a trove of sultry stories and tantalizing tales, this anthology is not safe for work--and that’s finally a good thing! Whether it starts as a harmless flirtation or a lifelong love affair, these stories explore the complicated world of love and lust in the workplace. Find out what happens when people stop working for the weekend and turn their 9-to-5’s into a full-time liaison. From flirty conference calls to sizzling office romances, the spectrum of playful professional fantasies is waiting to be enjoyed. This scorching anthology of twenty-one contemporary romances from today’s New York Times, USA Today, and International bestselling authors is perfect for adding a little cheek to your work week.INCLUDES:Eva Winters - Conflict of InterestAn illicit affair fueled by lies and deceit.I wanted to climb the corporate ladder and if it meant getting down and dirty, I had no problem doing it.The details of my assignment were clear--go in and spy on the competition. But then, a new opportunity presented itself, one with much better benefits, one that would allow me to carry out my plan for revenge. It was an offer to good to pass up and so, I didn't.There was just one problem, I hadn't prepared myself for what lie ahead.Find out just how dangerous the corporate world can be when lines are crossed and loyalties are tested.Taige Crenshaw & McKenna Jeffries - Just Business: Rowan (Just Business #1)When two rivals must work together, they also have to face an attraction neither wants or has time for....Chailyn Kincaid has worked hard to build her business to what it is. When an opportunity comes to work on a project she thought she lost, she will do it even if it means working with her rival. Yet when she officially meets Mitchell, she finds herself with a predicament--she's attracted to him. She doesn't have time for this, yet finds that Mitchell is nothing like she expects. So she'll take a chance, but ensure they each know where they stand.Mitchell Nash can't believe he has to work with the pain in the ass rival who has been a thorn in his side. To keep the client happy he will, but has set ground rules. He is in charge. Within moments of officially meeting Chailyn, he knows she won't accept anything but being equals. He can adjust, but what is he to so with his desire for her? Usuualy he would control it, but he finds with her, he finds he is not able to. When he gives in, he discovers he's found a woman who can match him and separate the personal from just business.Quinn - Miss Chief (Run the World #3)IngridThey say your life flashes before your eyes when you are about to die. For me...it was my sex life...or my lack of one.It was supposed to be one night of passion after he saved me sanity. But then he showed up in my office...as my replacement.All my life I've struggled to prove myself, and a little competition never hurt anyone. After all, all is fair in war...and in bed...**Miss Chief is the companion book to Like a F*cking Boss, part of the Run the World series.Brandy Ayers - Taking OverLydia St. James doesn't take crap from anyone. Not in the boardroom, and certainly not in the bedroom. Being the founder and CEO of the fastest growing cosmetics company in the country leaves her no time for personal relationships. Instead, Lydia fills her very specific needs in the private rooms of Club Zion. And if she can't make it there, she has a stable of male models and actors on the rise waiting in line to follow her every whim.A picture in a magazine, her story, her words, that was all it took. Damian Rasoio knew in his heart and his head that no other would ever compare to Lydia St. James. Months of planning and manipulating finally bring him face-to-face with his future. But all those careful moves couldn't prepare him, nothing could have.In a tug of war for control, it's anyone's guess who's taking over.Lynda Kaye Frazier - Second Hand LaceLacy Henson spent her life on the wrong side. It seemed she was destined to never achieve her dream to design. Then Jamison stepped into her life. An eighteen-year-old rich boy who stole her heart and crushed her future. She walked away, determined to prove to him and the fashion world that her designs deserved a chance. When an opportunity later opened, Lacy wanted to go for it. But it came with a price. The man from her past that was a constant reminder of where she came from, and who she was. Could she protect her heart and hide her feelings long enough to prove her capabilities? Or will his corporation and stature once again destroy her dreams, and break her heart?Leigh W. Stuart - Heating Up the Help DeskIf there is one thing tech genius Kenneth Jones knows, it's how to make a computer yield to his desires--from turning it on, to making the keyboard hum beneath his touch. But when it comes to women? He's going to need a savvy, sex advice coach to hack his love life.Accountant Reese Wallace can calculate a return on investment faster than brewing coffee, but that's just her day job. After hours, she moonlights as a relationship blogger, promoting love, sex and happiness. The moment geeky Kenneth strides into her life, she's dying to get her hands on him. Strictly as her client, of course. Brains might be sexy as hell, but Kenneth's pocket protector and corduroy pants must come off. Once they do, though, Reese is in trouble. She's about to discover that it's not the amount of experience in bed that counts, but the size of the...heart that goes with it.N.D. Jones - The Perks of Higher EdThose who teach never cease to learn and a lesson on love is on the syllabus for two educators who are due for a little romance.When the air turns bitter cold and the leaves begin to change, the chilly campus of Eastern Bluebird College welcomes back students and faculty, old and new, to chilly Buffalo. Despite the dropping temperatures, things in the office of the Diversity Progress Committee are only starting to heat up. Upon her arrival to campus, Director Sky Ellis finds herself in a precarious situation. Having left her beloved hometown of Annapolis, Sky is suddenly thrust into an unwelcome situation, where a closely guarded introvert is suddenly in the position to accept new people into her life.When met with Dr. Malcolm Styles' warm charm and inviting sense of humor, Sky finds herself wanting things she never considered were missing from her life. While an office romance is dangerously out of her comfort zone, Malcolm challenges Sky in ways that shape her as not only an individual, but an educator. However with her past carried so closely behind her, Sky realizes that it will take a little more than a handsome face to free herself from its grasp. It is only when they decide to grow together that true change can take shape and encourage both Malcolm and Sky to accept love from the most unlikely of places.Holly Ryan - Bound to the Boss (kink.club.com #2.5)When Addison Blevins lands a job at kinkclub.com, she never expected to be bound by rope to the man she used to be in love with.Janae Keyes - Protection: Codes of Conduct (Codes of Conduct #1)Kaitlyn Marshall -- Successful, beautiful, intelligent, and the daughter of the President of the United States of America.Evan Edwards -- Not your average man in a suit. Secret Service Agent, brave, and reliable.When Kaitlyn's life is in danger, she learns just how vital her Secret Service detail is to the protection of her life and heart. Codes of conduct are meant to be broken, aren't they?Nicole Morgan - Contracted ObligationPaul Hansen excelled in every part of his professional life and is on the fast track to being one of the youngest partners his law firm has ever seen.After putting her dreams of being an attorney on hold while she cared fro her ailing mother, Sienna Rausch is finally on the path to the future she always dreamed of.A chance meeting at a local pool hall causes the two to cross paths. Soon a simple game of billiards turns into a game of seduction and pursuit. And before long they'll both learn that in the world of contracts and negotiations, all bets are off.Ju Ephraime - Controlled by LoveFor Dean Holmes, being in control is vital to his survival. He loves the felling of power when he's in control. Power is good, but power without control is nothing. His control rules his life with an iron fist, and that fist never lets up, not for anything or anyone, not even in the bedroom. He's vowed to never get emotionally involved, whether it's business or pleasure.He hasn't reckoned on the temptations that fate sometimes throws in one's path. In Dean's case, temptation comes in the form of Robyn Blackman. When she walks into his office to discuss a deal, her impact on him is so powerful he feels his equilibrium shift. Now he finds himself spiraling out of control with a need that defies explanation, and he suddenly finds himself out of control.Robyn Blackman slowly but surely weaves her spell on Dean, even while she fights her attraction to him. If she wins, his very identity will be destroyed and his greatest fear will be realized. But he has to give up control if he wants to gain her love. Can he go against the very fabric of his being? He has to decide quickly before Robyn is out of his reach.Dean fights tooth and nail to maintain control. He can't do it. He won't, no matter how tempting. He will not give up his control. He will never belong to her. He will not allow himself to be controlled by love.Liz Gavin - Three CEO's for Valentine's (Club Desire) *M/F/M*They thought a joint venture would be risky, until they met Jenny.Fighting gaping debts and hostile takeovers proved a stroll in the proverbial park for Derrick Welch, Bryant McKinney, and Mitch Brewer after they partnered to launch Sexy & Sinful Spa & Resort. The riskiest business lay ahead. Steamy bedroom games featuring their curvy general manager made for a welcoming distraction, but one that could cost them their company.When medical expenses threatened Jenny Taylor with bankruptcy, she searched for a second job. She never expected her life to be turned upside down by her new bosses. Drop-dead gorgeous men didn't intimidate her. At her other job with Club Desire, she catered to the most demanding men and women: New Orleans's referral-only private club's clientele. But Derrick, Bryant, and Mitch took seduction to a whole new level.They thought one debauchery-filled Valentine's night would be enough, only to discover they craved a lifetime together.Jewel Killian - Office HoursI couldn't help the tiny shiver that ran down my spine. He took up more space than his six-and-a-half-foot frame should, like his presence somehow filled the room, stealing all the air and leaving only his pheromones and the nagging sense that I'd eventually succumb to them.I could interview gorgeous, built, intelligent men all day long, hell, they could flirt with me all day long and I wouldn't break a sweat. But Gabe Stevens was another matter entirely.I hated him. I hated the way he did business, the way he treated women, the way he took up so much goddamn space in my office. But mostly I hated how much my body didn't hate him at all.Cassie Leigh - Business Casual (Ink & Brazen Women #2.5)Briar Goodall learned to be perfect. She lost her identity becoming the kind of wife and daughter anyone would desire, but they left her anyway and took everything on the way out. So she started over in a new city with a new job, trying to fit in and be invisible. Still she stands out for all the wrong reasons to her new boss, real estate heir Ciaran Rand. Now she wants to get under his skin and to rub herself all over it. They're in a war over the dress code policy that has her breaking a few rules as she travels the path to self-discovery, seeking a love that can handle her both in and out of business casual.Leona Bushman - To Have and to Serveno blurb shownCamille Oster - Claiming the EastThis month-long assignment in the crazy, never-sleeping and vibrant city of Hong Kong is really a job interview, and Mercy Wright is intent on taking the prize from the other person in line for it, Lukas Heimer from the Frankfurt office. Lukas--annoying, rude, and a clean-freak to the point of being anally retentive. It was going to be a pleasure to leave him in the dust. No mercy.Khardine Gray - Mail Room DelightA kiss is just a kiss.No, actually it's not.Especially if the man you're kissing is your boss.Nothing could have prepared me for the trouble that damn kiss caused.But honestly, if I must be honest, trouble probably came well before the kiss.It started with that drunken note I left him telling him that he needed to get laid, or possibly have a sex marathon. Then, as if that wasn't bad enough, I told him to contact me if he needed to discuss things further.As if the super gorgeous, drool-worthy, Jason Dempsey needed a break down of my take on how to get laid.It was trouble, all of it. The kiss, the note, him.I know this, but still, I can't resist his charm and it's fruitless to even try.All he has to do is walk into my office dressed in that suit of seduction and the world fades away.Who could resist a man like that?Lexi Greene - The Scarlet Letter of the LawWhen Tony Radcliff joins Forbes Lawyers, career-driven Scarlet O'Connor suddenly has serious competition for the coveted senior associate position that is the foundation-stone of her future.And Tony has a couple of aces up his sleeve. Like his surf-sculpted body, which plays havoc with Scarlet's 'all work and no play' plans for partnership, and his brother, who holds the key to a secret from her past.When Scarlet and Tony start steaming up the office windows, there's no doubt they're playing with fire. But there can be only one winner, so who gets burned?Aliyah Burke - Tryst with the CEOJacques "Jack" Perrot fills in for his business partner and finds a woman unlike any he'd met before. A tryst together on the forty-fourth floor leaves him waking alone and craving more.Neela Fitzgerald never expected to meet her boss in an elevator and discover he was the same man she'd enjoyed a one-night stand with. He wants her close and makes her his personal assistant, however, his words push her away.Will he be able to recover what he's lost? Will she give him a second chance?N.R. Larry - Phantom of the OfficeAria thinks her boss is a bumbling, unorganized fool who can't find a suit that fits him.Erik knows Aria doesn't respect him, but he can't help casting her in his fantasies.And Erik loves his fantasies, as Aria will soon find out.And she can't help but play along.Monica Corwin - Kiss and TellOn a world of one night stands and friends with benefits, Tony is ready to experience all life has to offer, if only Jeremy could allow her to forget his hands, his mouth, and his proposal.Tonya McGregor has everything a girl could want...except a man. Well, she has a man, just not one she wants. Transferred overseas to her international office, her father intends to teach her about the market. Instead of learning the lay of the land, she starts learning the men, including her sexy ex across the hall. On the advice of her best friend, Tonya takes a more active role in her love life, effectively ruining it for good.Jeremy Brandt left New York City to get away from the rejection, the pain, and the humiliation of falling for the boss's daughter. Self-imposed exile in South Korea turns distracting once Tonya sweeps into the Seoul office. Sleepless nights and long days spent between Tony's thighs ignite emotions Jeremy thought he buried long ago.The mistake of a lifetime throws Tonya back into Jeremy's arms and each day that passes they drive closer to finally holding onto something real or losing it forever.