Nine to Five

A MILLIONAIRE...; Patrick Farr is perfectly happy with his bachelor life, wining and dining beautiful young women. If only he could make them understand that he will never marry for love...;. A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE...; Louisa Dennison is the perfect PA. She's also a single mom, bringing up two very demanding kids! So when Patrick proposes, her answer is definitely no! Or is it? A MARRIAGE FOR REAL? Patrick's offer could answer Lou's prayers-;financial security for life. But will their attempts to avoid love lead them to exactly that...;?

Vicky's relationship with Max Forbes, her sexy new boss, had to stay strictly business...just in case he discovered her secret-;her young daughter, Chloe. Even after their passionate night together, Vicky was just as secretive about her private life. But when Max accidentally came face-to-face with Chloe, the secret was out. Chloe looked exactly like her father, Max's late brother! And Max wanted Chloe to have the Forbes name; even if that meant marrying his secretary!

Gabriel Stearne might be a brilliant businessman-;but there's nothing on his illustrious resume about children! So the unexpected delivery to the office of a baby leaves him only one place to turn-;his personal assistant, Tess Gordon...;. Gabriel and Tess have been hiding their fiery attraction for each other behind strictly professional behavior. Now Tess has to stay in Gabriel's apartment to help him care for little Harry. And between late-night feeds and early wake-up calls, anything could happen!

The boss is back! Randal Harding…Though Pippa refused to get involved with him when she worked for him as his secretary, she's never quite been able to forget her ex-boss. Now Randal is back and is turning Pippa's neatly arranged life upside down; he wants her! But Pippa can't let her barriers drop. She tells herself that all the things that were against them then still hold true now. However, Randal is determined to prove at least one thing-that Pippa wants him, too!

She was the perfect assistant… Chesnie Cosgrove is overjoyed when she lands the job of senior secretary to handsome tycoon Joel Davenport. Joel may be demanding to work for, but it's the long line of women trying to date him that's driving Chesnie mad! …and convenient wife? The tables are turned when Joel discovers Chesnie is casually dating his arch rival. The best way to deal with this "little problem," he decides, is to announce his own engagement-to Chesnie! But is his proposal strictly professionaL.or more personal?

9 to 5 MEMORANDUM To:The Reader From: Carole Mortimer Subject: The Black Sheep and the Scarlet Woman It is being drawn to your attention that Juliet's boss has left her half his company-and all his troubles. Carlyle Properties is near bankruptcy, and Juliet has to share her inheritance with Liam Carlyle, his estranged son, who has already assumed that Juliet seduced his father! What Liam doesn't know is that Juliet was once engaged to Simon, his despised younger brother. One thing is for sure: Juliet has decided to work with Liam to save the company, but as for his notion that his father should have left him everything-including Juliet…. She wants a strictly business affair!

Conrad Quentin was equally famed for his ruthless business deals and devastating good looks. Sephy encountered the full force of these charms from day one of her new job as Conrad's secretary! Sephy didn't want an office affair, but Conrad proposed a deal: if she agreed to date him, he'd be the perfect gentleman-until her temporary contract with him ended. Then he planned to make her his mistress, or more....

Dan McKnight, Megan's boss, insisted that she pretend to be his lover! He wanted to convince a young girl with an obsessive crush on him that he was in love with someone else.... But, after sharing a room--and a bed--Dan and Megan suddenly became overwhelmingly attracted to each other! In fact, they were so convincing as lovers they'd even made mad, passionate love. The problem was their pretense was supposed to stop the moment they were back at work...

For gorgeous lawyer Nick Gilbert, an after-hours rendezvous with a woman usually means a romantic dinner, not a children's charity picnic. But he's game! Especially as his date is his rather prim but intriguing colleague, Carolyn Duff.... Watching her with the little kids, Nick sees a new side of Carolyn. He starts to understand the glimmer of sadness behind her dazzling green gaze. When the real woman behind the all-business facade is laid bare, Nick has never seen anyone more beautiful....

A single mother struggles to keep it professional when she falls for her sexy boss in this classic contemporary romance. Kim had been ecstatic when Lucas Kane offered her a job as his new secretary-until she realized that her new boss was breathtakingly sexy. Could she stay true to her vow of avoiding an office affair? And Lucas wasn't just a powerful tycoon-he struck up an instant rapport with Kim's little daughter. Handsome and funny, Lucas was impossible to resist. Especially when he made it clear that he wanted more than temporary passion-he wanted Kim permanently! Originally published in 2001.