Success was hers... at least in her career. But when it came to love... well, she'd obviously inherited her mother's talent for making bad choices when it came to men. With her biological clock ticking louder every year, Lauren Nuggent decided that motherhood did not require a man to foul things up. Adoption was doable.
Except, it wasn't a step she wanted to take unless she knew she was up to the challenge. Her sister oozed maternal instincts, made the job look easy, though Lauren doubted it was. But she wasn't going to take the plunge into adopting until she knew whether she, too, had maternal instincts.
Hence the jump into the fire when a co-worker at New Century Insurance was jockeyed into a "Hell, no, I won't go" position.
Sam Hackett was the company golden boy. He was also the only man to ever ask for maternity leave to care for his infant daughter, and the first one to ask to telecommute from home rather than head to the office every day. As a parent, Sam was doing a great job of being a father, and he was trumping the "mother" bit as well. Now the client dangling a multi-million-dollar contract before company eyes, wanted Sam and only Sam to show up at their corporate office, which was out of town.
As far as Sam was concerned, that was too far to go, both in distance and in bowing to their demands. He had responsibilities, an 18-month old daughter to care for. His mother was off on a cruise and his in-no-way-maternal ex-wife were not options as substitute caregivers.
He hadn't expected anyone to step forward and volunteer for the job of caregiver from among the company's management staff. And he was uneasy about Lauren Nuggent, the recent transfer into the Midwest division, being the one stepping up.
She not only looked a lot like his ex, she was a career woman like his ex.
No way in Hell was she qualified. But he wasn't being given an option. It was accept her offer or turn in his resignation. He went with a comporise, a trial weekend with him overseeing things.
And nothing was the same after that.
About the Author
Beth Henderson's first romantic novel was released in 1990. She followed it with further titles in romantic-comedy, historical romance, even YA romantic-comedy. It meant writing under a lot different pseudonyms, but she now has 30 titles to her various names.
She also writes urban fantasy mystery and Steampunk adventure under two other names. Find her at www.RomanceAndMystery2.com, www.WritingSteampunk.com, or for non-fiction books about writing genre fiction, at www.Muse2Ms.com.
Genre: Romance
Except, it wasn't a step she wanted to take unless she knew she was up to the challenge. Her sister oozed maternal instincts, made the job look easy, though Lauren doubted it was. But she wasn't going to take the plunge into adopting until she knew whether she, too, had maternal instincts.
Hence the jump into the fire when a co-worker at New Century Insurance was jockeyed into a "Hell, no, I won't go" position.
Sam Hackett was the company golden boy. He was also the only man to ever ask for maternity leave to care for his infant daughter, and the first one to ask to telecommute from home rather than head to the office every day. As a parent, Sam was doing a great job of being a father, and he was trumping the "mother" bit as well. Now the client dangling a multi-million-dollar contract before company eyes, wanted Sam and only Sam to show up at their corporate office, which was out of town.
As far as Sam was concerned, that was too far to go, both in distance and in bowing to their demands. He had responsibilities, an 18-month old daughter to care for. His mother was off on a cruise and his in-no-way-maternal ex-wife were not options as substitute caregivers.
He hadn't expected anyone to step forward and volunteer for the job of caregiver from among the company's management staff. And he was uneasy about Lauren Nuggent, the recent transfer into the Midwest division, being the one stepping up.
She not only looked a lot like his ex, she was a career woman like his ex.
No way in Hell was she qualified. But he wasn't being given an option. It was accept her offer or turn in his resignation. He went with a comporise, a trial weekend with him overseeing things.
And nothing was the same after that.
About the Author
Beth Henderson's first romantic novel was released in 1990. She followed it with further titles in romantic-comedy, historical romance, even YA romantic-comedy. It meant writing under a lot different pseudonyms, but she now has 30 titles to her various names.
She also writes urban fantasy mystery and Steampunk adventure under two other names. Find her at www.RomanceAndMystery2.com, www.WritingSteampunk.com, or for non-fiction books about writing genre fiction, at www.Muse2Ms.com.
Genre: Romance
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