Workplace romance to the nth degree
Ever dated someone from work? In a 2011 poll, 38% admitted
to a workplace romance. Of course on-the-job relationships have benefits: the
couple gets to spend more time together, they might have similar schedules, and
they know one another fairly well going into the romance. But we all know the
risks as well: perceived favoritism while the relationship lasts, potential
fall-out if the everything blows up, and chance of having a significant other
“all up in your business” as you conduct other everyday workplace transactions
or relationships. A lot could go wrong.
But imagine the owners of a company having a romantic
relationship. Even more can go wrong. Which is why Victoria, the owner in Fantasy Mountain, resists Brett for so long. Not
only does Brett own a share of her company, but he’s also one of her small
handful of friends. She’s kept herself romantically detached from everyone for
years now, and to let herself love Brett is a huge risk--she stands to lose her
business partner and her friend if things go horribly sour. Brett has a very
effective means of convincing her, however…
He cradled Vic’s face in his hands, tracing dark circles
under her eyes with his thumbs. “If you weren’t out drinking and cavorting with
rakes all night, you’d not be so tired, miss,” he teased softly.
She swallowed hard and looked at the floor. “I was in by
ten.” Was she hiding something? “I just didn’t…rest well.”
Of course. The damn dreams. She never rested when she went
to California,
and here he’d been begrudging her the best diversion she had from those
nightmares.
“Ah, Vic. I’m sorry.” Her eyes teared up, right before she
narrowed them on him. She’d be pissed off now because he felt sorry for her.
Already her cheeks were turning that angry pink he so enjoyed. The green eyes
squinted smaller, and her jaws tightened under the heels of his hands. Glorious
angry, she was. He couldn’t help smiling again, which would only serve to
further infuriate her.
She took in a great breath. He knew she intended to spew it
back out on him in a flurry of irate words, but he stole it from her first. He
kissed her, as he seemed to do more often than he cared to acknowledge, and
stalled the angry reply.
Even as his lips brushed against her soft ones, he thought
of her kissing another, and his pulse beat faster. The sweet gesture to show
her he would sympathize with her whether she liked it or not became a fierce
need to make her want him. Instead of a tender, closed-mouth kiss, he forced
her lips apart and probed with his tongue. He longed to taste and feel her desire,
her need for him and him alone. To have her love him.
He got the desire, at least. She slipped her smooth arms
round his neck and matched him move for move. He’d known she would. It was
constantly there with them, this physical need. Though she strove to suppress
it in the name of business ethics, he could sense it always, carefully hidden.
And damn if it didn’t drive him mad to know she wanted him but didn’t love him.
Besides, she had more self-control than he did. As usual, she found her senses
first and pulled away from him.
“Andrea,” was her breathless one-word way of halting him. It
worked famously.
She arranges fantasy fulfillment for a living. Now it’s her
turn.
Victoria has built a
world-renowned business at Fantasy
Mountain, the resort
where no want is too wacky, no urge too unusual, no passion too peculiar. Her
ability to create any sexual scenario has granted her everything she could
want: power, money, independence. The one thing that remains out of her reach
is the man she knows she’ll never have...and he happens to work just down the
hall from her.
Brett has all but given up hope of breaching the wall around
Victoria’s
heart. In fact, he’s engaged to be married back in London in only two months. But he knows Victoria has desires; he’s
seen them firsthand.
When a night of passion rekindles old feelings, can he
finally fulfill the ultimate fantasy of the woman who’s made it her mission to
satisfy everyone’s desires but her own? After all, whatever the erotic dream,
it can come true at Fantasy
Mountain.
Content Warning: Wild romps, no-holds-barred lust, and deep,
meaningful lovemaking. A love story first, sparing no steamy details. Contains
glimpses into very kinky fantasies.
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Fantasy
Mountain website: http://fantasymountain.webs.com/
Fantasy
Mountain trailer (PG-13,
probably not for viewing at work): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abYhMUK4p58
Romance is sexy. And often funny, and sometimes tangled up
with suspense. Let’s face it: all sorts of things get mixed up with romance in
real life.
Piper Denna’s stories are not cut-and-dried romance. She
wants her characters to deal with issues female readers can relate to:
independence and trust, empowerment, inhibitions, an unfaithful partner,
motherhood. Sometimes her characters make mistakes and often her “bad guys” are
not 100% bad. Mostly she wants to take the reader on an emotional journey to a
happy ending (with a few enviable sexual encounters along the way!).
When she’s not writing, she edits, raises two teens, along
with her husband, and has an evil day job.
She enjoys books (or movies) with a comedic twist and
hopefully a love story, too.
Sexiest parts of a man in Piper’s opinion? The hands and
eyes. Shoulders are nice too, and of course, great pecs are never amiss…
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