Embarking on an office romance is a slippery slope. If
things sour but you still have to work together, then
what? Even worse is an affair with one's boss. But what
if he technically isn't your boss...yet?
Following a bad day, Josephine "Joey" Winfield, attorney
and the family "bad girl", needs to burn off some steam.
She connects with a hot guy at a roadhouse during a game
of pool. Only he's not just some guy. He's Sebastian
Stanhope, the new guy at her law office and her boss. Or
at least he will be come Monday. But today's Friday and
Joey's alcohol-impaired judgment says, "So what?" Let the
sparks fall where they may.
MY GUILTY PLEASURE is part of the continuity series, The
Martini Dares, published by Harlequin Blaze. In this
series, each heroine is initiated, by way of a dare, into
the Martinis and Bikinis, a social club spearheaded by
Lindsay, Joey's half-sister. So Joey has to deal with not
only a budding relationship with her boss but accepting
and fulfilling whatever dare the M&B ladies have in mind
for her.
This is a fun, sexy read although I didn't totally buy
Joey's distress over uncovering some long-held family
secrets, especially since she embraces being the
family "bad girl". The romance between Joey and Sebastian
is engaging. Even though Joey is the law office associate
and Sebastian the junior partner, there is never a sense
of them being on widely, unequal footing. Joey holds her
own, and not because, as a member of "the" Winfields of
Boston, she has a trust fund to fall back on. For once,
it was nice to see the man be a standup kind of guy even
when the woman is being a jerk. Neither men nor women
have a monopoly on bad judgment spurred by faulty,
emotional reasoning. It's even nicer when they get their
happily ever after.
The elite Martinis & Bikinis Club challenges you to risk
it all. But once you pick a dare, there's no backing out…
Everyone thinks Josephine Winfield is a good girl, but
underneath she's bad to the bone. Very bad.
Why else would she pick up sexy Sebastian Stanhope over a
martini? The fact the two of them will be working together
on a scandalous case doesn't even stop her from a romp
between the sheets!
Sebastian knows this fling can only lead to disaster. He's
her boss—with fringe benefits.
Meantime Joey wants to see how far she can push it—with a
Martini Dare. "The time for revealing secrets has come.
Open your heart to the one closest to it."
Can she confess she's truly fallen in love with Sebastian
or is this only a case of lust in the first degree?
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