He hired a recruiter to match him with a wife.
But the woman he wants is off-limits.
CEO Luke Dallas will save his business deal—even if that means marriage! And he hires executive recruiter Danica Novak to be his unconventional matchmaker. The only problem? Beautiful, captivating Danica is distracting him from his goal. He knows they have chemistry, but Danica won’t settle for anything less than love. Will that be the deal breaker?
A lover of storytelling in all forms, SUSANNAH ERWIN worked for major film studios before writing her first novel, which won RWA’s Golden Heart® Award. She lives in Northern California with her husband and a very spoiled but utterly delightful cat.
Wanted: Billionaire’s Wife
Susannah Erwin
ISBN: 978-1-474-09234-0
WANTED: BILLIONAIRE’S WIFE
© 2019 Susannah Erwin
Published in Great Britain 2019
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To Jeff, my very own happy-ever-after.
Contents
Danica Novak wanted a hot shower, cool bedsheets and at least ten hours of uninterrupted sleep after her early morning cross-country flight. Instead, she got a claim form for lost luggage, a taxi driver who hit every possible red light between the airport in San Francisco and her office building in Palo Alto, and yet another phone squabble with her parents’ health insurance company about her brother’s medical bills. This was the third person she’d talked to since her plane landed, and it wasn’t yet 11:00 a.m. in California.
“The treatment isn’t covered?” She braced her cell phone between her right shoulder and ear while using her hands to dig through her tote bag for any loose bills with which to pay the fare. Her credit card was useless, as she had discovered when she tried to buy food on the plane. Her sudden trip to Rhode Island at last-minute airfare prices had eaten up what remained of her cushion. “You can’t negotiate to bring the costs down? At all?”
The driver stared at her through the rearview mirror, his fingers tapping an impatient rhythm on the steering wheel. When her eyes met his in the mirror, he flicked the meter back on. Danica