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HOW TO AVOID A BILLIONAIRE

How to Avoid a Billionaire, February 2015
by Tressie Lockwood

Samhain Publishing
Featuring: Ryder Neyland; Melanie Cai
88 pages
ISBN: 1619224593
EAN: 9781619224599
Kindle: B00NOM4IMC
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"This billionaire's plan of seduction backfires with his pursuit of this woman."

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HOW TO AVOID A BILLIONAIRE
Tressie Lockwood

Reviewed by Kay Quintin
Posted February 21, 2015

Romance Contemporary

Working as an ad exec and learning someone has stolen her designs, Melanie Cai is confronting her boss to take back her deserved credit. Her friend Shana has been right behind her, pushing her to the confrontation. Her plan was to help build up Johnson Ltd.'s standing in the marketplace while exposing Neyland for stomping on the little guy.

Billionaire Ryder Neyland (and 11th most eligible bachelor in the US) sets his sights to take down the pleasingly plumb female designer who cost him several million. Having no regard for women, Ryder has a history of using them for his purposes and then discarding them with an expensive kiss-off piece of jewelry. Melanie, half black and half chinese, is not normally the kind of woman that appeals to him and his first black woman to bed. He is drawn to her mouth and her large breasts as he's all about sex. Thus starts his pursuit ending the first liaison with hot, erotic sex. Melanie isn't what he expects though, as she doesn't bend to his every demand nor fall for his macho control. The more she seems to pull away, the more he is fascinated with her. By now she is head over heels in love with Ryder, but in no way letting him know.

I have never read any of the works from this author but found it different than most of my other reads. The story had a cute plot started for a short story and the characters were interesting, but I personally felt that the majority of the tale was all erotic and graphic sex while the story itself lacked complete story. I know it is hard in a short story to include a lot, but I was hoping for more story and not all sexual graphics. I did especially like Melanie's character as she portrayed a woman very confident and comfortable in her own skin.

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SUMMARY

He wanted to teach her a lesson but he’s about to get schooled. Ryder Neyland grew up immersed in the cutthroat world of million-dollar deals. From his father’s CEO friends, he learned how to handle people and money, and quickly learned rule number one: never allow anyone to cross him without retribution. When he learns the identity of a small-time ad exec who masterminded the advertisement that not only cost him millions of dollars, but made him look like a corporate bully, he sets out to put the woman in her place. Melanie Cai is ecstatic when, for once, her boss gives her full credit for the campaign she hopes will launch her career. Which makes it all the more intriguing when Ryder begins seducing her in a decidedly non-gourmet diner, apparently thinking she doesn’t recognize him. He’s sexy. She’s tempted. Why not play along? It isn’t long before Ryder’s plan for revenge starts running off the rails. Melanie may have killer curves, but she doesn’t easily bend to his manipulations. And soon she has him not only rethinking his world view, but also his future. Warning: Contains a high-powered executive who isn’t used to hearing β€œno”, and a half African-American, half Chinese ad exec who knows her placeβ€”and it ain’t under his thumb. Unless that thumb is right where she wants it…

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