Can't get enough of the office? This book will be like
taking it home with you. However when there's a handsome,
adept new techie hire, maybe that's a good thing. Emma
works for a magazine and the computer system has more bugs
than a Louisiana swamp. Guy arrives to keep everything
running, and he's a water polo player and coach along with
his skills at creating server backups and updating
software. THE TECH GUY has to work alongside Emma, but her
life doesn't need complications.
Burdened with a colleague who drools over men and
suspicions that co-workers may be passing information to
rival magazines, Emma also has a personal life more based
on obligation and habit than on excitement. Down time
doesn't exist in magazine publishing, she reflects; no
sooner is one issue out the door than the next has to be
assembled. She's not too sure that she's got her husband's
entire attention, three years after their Vegas wedding.
Next up, she and Guy are sent to a conference in Vegas.
Lectures and workshops are a lot of work, and Emma deserves
some relaxation - right?
Lia Fairchild gets involved in the complex lives of all her
characters, from a girl who's badly treated by her
boyfriend and then gets a proposal from him, to Emma's Pop
and neighbours. I would actually have liked more details
about producing the magazine, and more of the computer
technical challenges, than the constant gossip. But
between family meals, sports days, a formal evening and so
on, there are changes of scene to keep the story moving.
And when Emmie asks her friend who's got engaged, "Do you
really think he's the best you can get?" and the other girl
is undecided, we see reality for many middle-range office
workers, who don't think they'll ever meet anyone more
interesting. Emmie has a secret, and it's not helping her
life. Confronting her friend helps her to realise that, and
then she has to start turning matters around.
THE TECH GUY deepens when people start actually facing up
to their problems instead of just doing what feels safe.
Readers may feel encouraged to get out and demand more from
life.
Emma Barton is a workaholic. Nothing is more important than
becoming managing editor of the magazine she works for. And
she has the perfect plan to achieve that goal. Then Guy
Walker enters her office. Sexy, sweet, and super popular,
the new tech guy takes the office by storm. Will he derail
every strategy Emma has in place? If he discovers her
secret, it could ruin Emma's career and turn her life upside
down.
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