Paula Roe
Boardrooms & A Billionaire Heir
"I'm a man you sleep with, not fall in love with."
Jake Vance was danger in a designer suit, a charming corporate raider. When he set his sights on Blackstone's, Australia's richest diamond dealers, Holly McLeod's primary assignment was as his assistant; her secondary was as a spy. To her amazement, she learned her dangerously sexy boss was the long-lost Blackstone heir. And then Jake did the unthinkable: To save his new company, he proposed marriage...an intimate one...to her!
Release Dates:
May 2008 (USA) ~ June 2008 (Australia/NZ)
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I was a brand-new Desire author of only barely two months, still floating on my First Sale high when I got an email from my favorite kiwi, Yvonne. She asked if I'd like to join their merry group of five in this author-led continuity they'd pitched to the senior editor. "You can say no if you want to," she added. Right. As if I'd say no to that!
Little was I to know how wonderful, stressed, exciting, euphoric and frustrating the next few years would be! J
So began the weeks of brainstorming. I'd already had an idea percolating in my head about a missing heir suddenly returned into the Blackstone clan, and was thrilled when everyone gave me an enthusiastic thumbs up on Jake's storyline. After writing then discarding an outline with a small-town, lovers-reunited theme, the alternate boss/secretary romance really took off.
My favorite part to write is the dialog - the snap and banter of two people who know there's a sexual undercurrent there, and who can't keep baiting each other. J I'm especially proud of this story, because I learned so much from it, from editing and plotting, to what my writing process is. It also took me less than six months to write - a first for someone who's a world-class procrastinator!
"Boardrooms & A Billionaire Heir... has some wonderfully complex characters."
~ 4 stars, Romantic Times
"Oh. Wow! This fifth title in the Diamonds Down Under series does not disappoint! ...a rugged and emotional ride... James's return to the family is an emotional story too good to miss." ~ Robyn Lee, Romance Reviews Today