Her bodyguard might protect her business...
But what about her heart?
Designer turned entrepreneur Megan North is tantalizingly close to realizing the dream of a lifetime: opening four boutiques around the country. And someone seems desperate to stop her. That’s where security expert Seth Pike comes in. As dogged as he is dreamy, he’ll do whatever it takes to protect his gorgeous client. When business quickly turns personal, can he save Megan...before lurking danger overcomes them both?
BEVERLY LONG enjoys the opportunity to write her own stories. She has both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in business and more than twenty years of experience as a human resources director. She considers her books to be a great success if they compel the reader to stay up way past their bedtime. Beverly loves to hear from readers. Visit beverlylong.com, or like her author fan page at Facebook.com/beverlylong.romance.
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Protecting the Boss
Beverly Long
ISBN: 978-1-474-09356-9
PROTECTING THE BOSS
© 2018 Beverly R. Long
Published in Great Britain 2018
by Mills & Boon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF
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Seth’s strong hand grabbed hold of her right biceps, and he pulled her into his body, somehow managing to keep them both upright.
“I’ve got you,” he said.
He was hot and sweaty and she was basically plastered against his right side. “Oh,” she said.
“Oh, indeed,” he murmured.
Her heart was hammering in her chest, and not only from the run and the near fall. She’d been physically aware of him since the first moment that he’d almost slid into her under the awning. And waking up in the same room had only exacerbated the tension coursing through her body.
She was needy. Aching with it, truly.
She tilted her head up. He leaned down.
His mouth was just inches away. So close she could feel his warm breath.
He was going to kiss her.
And then he straightened up and stepped away. “We should probably finish up,” he said. “I think there’s a mile or so left. Ready?”
I love road trips. The excitement of picking the destination and then planning the route. The routine of packing snacks for the car; a trip without a bag of red licorice at my side is really not a trip at all. The challenge of shoving suitcases and shoes and way too many things into the trunk because there’s nobody to threaten me with a fifty-pound weight limit and that I only get one carry-on bag!
Then there’s the drive and all the good things that come with that. Perhaps a glimpse of something unexpected like the field of prairie dogs in South Dakota or the joy of a sunset in Bryce Canyon National Park. Or a back road in northern Wisconsin that led to a little store selling the best jelly and pickled beets one might ever taste.
And what is better than the anticipation of arrival and then finally seeing new things or old friends, depending on the trip?
In Protecting the Boss, Megan North is about to take a big-time road trip. She’s going to open four boutiques in four different states in less than two weeks. Her bags are packed, and she’s got a plan! It does not include security specialist Seth Pike.
But there’s danger ahead, just beyond the bend in the road, and it’s going to take the two of them, working together, to make it back home alive.
I invite you to come along for the ride! I think you’re going to enjoy it.
All my best,
Beverly
My thanks to my good friend Margaret O’Connor Govett at Girls in Pearls Boutique for all things boutique related. Any errors are solely mine.
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