One Stormy Night
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
Stranded on an island with the very person she was trying to escape...
The plan was easy: quit working for her overly demanding, overly ambitious, annoyingly handsome boss and launch her own career.
Before she can tell her boss to take his job and shove it, Charlie Middleton loses her dear aunt, and inherits her treasured Scottish cottage. Devastated, Charlie jet-sets across the Atlantic to a remote island off the Scottish coast, seeking to clear her mind and fortify her resolve to take charge of her future.
Lachlan Hart, tech genius and founder of a multi-million-dollar artificial intelligence company, discovers his reliable assistant has abruptly resigned. Feeling abandoned and lost without the woman who kept his life running like a well-oiled machine, he chases after her to bring her back.
When he arrives in the island village, Charlie is outraged at the invasion of her privacy and disgusted by his lack of boundaries. But amid a heated argument, they miss the last ferry off the island, stranding them in the storm of the century. Seeking shelter in the crumbling cottage, Charlie and Lachlan fight for survival, while wrestling a surge of newfound attraction.
Battling an onslaught of wind, rain, and rising storm surge, Charlie and Lachlan find the piece of themselves they'd lost—in each other.
If you like Robyn Carr, Kendra Elliot, and Barbara O'Neal, you'll love this story of one woman's journey to find herself... and love.
"A raging storm sparks an unexpected romance." – Publisher's Weekly
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A raging storm sparks an unexpected romance in this flimsy love story from Sawyer (Always, Ella). Charlie Middleton has spent three years anticipating every need of her ungrateful boss, gorgeous tech genius Lachlan Hart, and she's finally ready to break free. Unable to pin the busy Lachlan down, Charlie leaves without giving notice after learning that her aunt has died and willed her a cottage in Scotland's Isle of Murdina. Lachlan can't understand why his faithful assistant deserted him and, finding her shoes hard to fill, he goes on a mission to Scotland to get her back. When a storm strands the pair on the isle, their relationship becomes more pleasure than business—but Charlie fears workaholic Lachlan will be unable to make her a priority once they return to their real lives. The bones of Sawyer's story are good, with a well-developed premise and a cute contrivance for bringing the couple together, but Lachlan's transformation from uncaring boss to lovestruck suitor is too abrupt to be believed. Guilt justifies some of his changed behavior, but not his sudden, intense physical attraction to the assistant he's seemingly never noticed before. Readers will love both halves of the couple but feel cheated by their rushed romance.
