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The First Affair by Emma McLaughlin

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Also by Emma McLaughlin:

How to be a Grown-Up, August 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
The First Affair, September 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Between You and Me, June 2013
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Between You And Me, June 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Nanny Returns: A Novel, December 2009
Hardcover
The Real Real, June 2009
Hardcover
Citizen Girl, October 2005
Trade Size (reprint)
The Nanny Diaries, March 2003
Paperback / e-Book

Also by Nicola Kraus:

The Best We Could Hope For, May 2025
Trade Paperback / e-Book
How to be a Grown-Up, August 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
The First Affair, September 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Between You and Me, June 2013
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Between You And Me, June 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Nanny Returns: A Novel, December 2009
Hardcover
Citizen Girl, October 2005
Trade Size (reprint)
The Nanny Diaries, March 2003
Paperback / e-Book

THE FIRST AFFAIR
By: Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus

Atria
September 2013
On Sale: August 27, 2013
Featuring: Jamie McAlister
257 pages
ISBN: 145164342X
EAN: 9781451643428
Kindle: B00A28HW7Y
Hardcover / e-Book
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Contemporary | Women's Fiction | New Adult

Jamie McAlister has resigned herself to the fact that in this job market, her painfully expensive degree might only get her a position at Starbucks, when she suddenly lands a prestigious internship at the White House. Although she doesn’t hit it off with the other internsβ€”lockjaws who come from so much money that ten weeks without a paycheck doesn’t faze themβ€”she is eager to work hard and make the best of the opportunity while it lasts.

An unexpected encounter late one evening with the charismatic President Gregory Rutland seems like just a fleeting flirtation, but when he orchestrates clandestine meetings and late-night phone calls, their relationship quickly escalates. Jamie knows what she is doing is wrong: he’s married, he has kids, he’s the President. Yet each time she tries to extricate herself, Greg pulls her back in.

With the conflicted desires of the most powerful man in the world driving her to her breaking point, Jamie can’t help but divulge intimate details to those closest to her. But she must have confided in the wrong person, because she soon finds herself, and everyone she cares about, facing calculated public destruction at the hands of Greg’s political enemies, andβ€”perhaps no matter how much he cares about herβ€”at the hands of Greg himself.