Author: Melissa Blue
Series: Under the Kilt #3
Pages: N/A
Date Published: 2015
Publisher: N/A
Format: Kindle
Genre: Romance
Callan Baird used to laugh more than he frowned, but that was before his wife died. Now his life is duty, debts and a general apathy for anything else. And then Victoria Burke burst into his life. She's everything he wants to corrupt.
Victoria has two choices: agree to a grouchy, sexy Scotsman's extortion or call her boss to explain why she can't do her job. Since she's spent the last three years rebuilding her career as antique appraiser, and this one commission could make or break it, the decision is a no-brainer. Except everything about Callan is complicated.
He sees no problem turning their work relationship into a sexual one. She refuses to break her boss' no-fraternization rule. He's the one thing she wants and the one thing she can't have. He's had his one great love, and doesn't want a replacement. His heart doesn't agree, because she's everything he desires.
Callan will have to let go of his past if he wants Victoria to be in his future.
~Try an Excerpt!~
The door swung open. A shirtless man glowered at her, but
that description couldn't quite encapsulate him. Her smile faltered while she
lost a few IQ points at the full brunt of him. Shadows deepened the grooves
around his mouth and eyes. Wind creeping in through the open door whipped his
dark auburn hair into disarray. He was broad in the shoulders, solid in the
torso and thighs. Every sinew in his tall frame inspired an itch in her palms
to touch, caress, explore all of him. He fit into the scenery—stark mountains
and moors.
The furrows that hinted above his brows practically promised
brooding—complete with a money back guarantee. His blue eyes narrowed. “Which
Baird sent you?” His thick burr rolled the “r” in a way that prickled her skin.
He definitely seemed to know Ian and Tristan. Ian was her
boss. Tristan was her boss' brother who ran the sales division. To say they
were like night and day was an understatement. “I'm—”
He scoffed, cutting off her speech with the abrupt sound.
“Ian,” he guessed with pinpoint accuracy. “Tristan wouldn't have sent a lamb to
slaughter.”
Her spine stiffened. A lamb would have curled up when she
had mistakenly authenticated a forgery three years ago. A sheep would have
willingly let the world put a hand over her eyes while it slit her throat to
bleed out from shame, guilt and mortification. One simply didn't recover from
the kind of screw up she'd made, but Victoria had found employment, convinced
her boss to send her to Scotland, alone, for an all expense paid commission of
a castle. This was her first job oversees for the Bairds and it damn sure
wouldn't be her last.
Victoria Burke was no one's goddamn lamb.
~Meet Melissa!~
Melissa Blue’s writing career started on a typewriter one month after her son was born. This would have been an idyllic situation for a writer if it had been 1985, not 2004. Eventually she upgraded to a computer. She’s still typing away on the same computer, making imaginary people fall in love.
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ReplyDelete*I* started my home typing business right after my son was born in 1985 (coincidence?), and, yes, I upgraded from that electronic typewriter to a personal computer in 1989, although I have upgraded to several more computers since then. I LOVE being home to work: like authors, I can type in my pj's, when I'm sick, in the middle of the night, but, more importantly, I can work around visitation/funeral hours so I can be there for my friends when needed.
There's is both a freedom and a burden of working from home. There is no boss to tell you you're slacking off. Unpredictable income. But being home with the kids is such a plus.
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