Susan Connell - How To Succeed At Love

“An Affair In The Workplace Is Never A Smart Move,” Spencer Said. “An Affair In The Workplace Is Never A Smart Move,” Spencer Said. “People are asking for problems when they allow that sort of thing to happen.” He paused to see if Jade was listening. “Once you start making eyes at someone, it’s only a matter of time before things get out of hand and you’re getting caught between the filing cabinets. Then it’s—” “But we don’t work together.” She turned around to face him. “And what’s more, you’re not my type. So I most certainly could not imagine us making love on top of a desk.” “Who said anything about making love on top of a desk?” “You just did. You said—” The unfinished sentence hung in the air, and her flushed face deepened to scarlet. Spencer didn’t bother correcting her. They both knew she’d realized her mistake and was paying dearly for it. And besides that, he was too busy watching her perfectly pouty lips parting in shock. Or was it something else? That one-of-a-kind something that both of them had been fighting... Letter to Reader Dear Reader, There’s something for everyone this month! Brides, babies and cowboys...but also humor, sensuality...and delicious love stories (some without a baby in sight!). There’s nothing as wonderful as a new book from Barbara Boswell, and this month we have a MAN OF THE MONTH written by this talented author. Who’s the Boss? is a very sexy, delightfully funny love story. As always, Barbara not only creates a masterful hero and smart-as-a-whip heroine, she also makes her secondary characters come alive! When a pregnant woman gets stuck in a traffic jam she does the only thing she can do—talks a handsome hunk into giving her a ride to the hospital on his motorcycle in Leanne Banks’s latest, The Troublemaker Bride. Have you ever wanted to marry a millionaire? Well, heroine Irish Ellison plans on finding a man with money in One Ticket to Texas by Jan Hudson. A single mom-to-be gets a new life in Paula Detmer Riggs’s emotional and heartwarming Daddy by Accident. And a woman with a “bad reputation” finds unexpected romance in Barbara McMahon’s Boss Lady and the Hired Hand. Going to your high-school reunion is bad enough. But what if you were voted “Most likely to succeed”...but your success at love has been fleeting? Well, that’s just what happens in Susan Connell’s How To Succeed at Love. So read...and enjoy! Lucia Macro Senior Editor Please address questions and book requests to: Silhouette Reader Service U.S.: 3010 Walden Ave., P.O. Box 1325, Buffalo, NY 14269 Canadian: P.O. Box 609, Fort Erie, Ont. L2A 5X3 Title Page How to Succeed at Love Susan Connell www.millsandboon.co.uk SUSAN CONNELL SUSAN CONNELL has a love of traveling that has taken her all over the world—Greece, Spain, Portugal, Central and South America, to name just a few places. While working for the foreign service she met a U.S. Navy pilot, and eight days later they were engaged. Twenty-one years and several moves later, Susan, her husband, Jim, and daughter, Catherine, call the New Jersey shore home. When she’s not writing, her part-time job at a local bookstore, Mediterranean cooking and traveling with her family are some of her favorite activities. Susan has been honored by New Jersey Romance Writers with their coveted Golden Leaf Award. She loves hearing from her readers. Dedication Jim Connell, Cathy Connell, Candace Cowdrick and Roger Cohen For your expertise, sense of humor and unfailing support. Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Copyright

“An Affair In The Workplace Is Never A Smart Move,” Spencer Said.

“People are asking for problems when they allow that sort of thing to happen.”

He paused to see if Jade was listening.

“Once you start making eyes at someone, it’s only a matter of time before things get out of hand and you’re getting caught between the filing cabinets. Then it’s—”

“But we don’t work together.” She turned around to face him. “And what’s more, you’re not my type. So I most certainly could not imagine us making love on top of a desk.”

“Who said anything about making love on top of a desk?”

“You just did. You said—” The unfinished sentence hung in the air, and her flushed face deepened to scarlet.

Spencer didn’t bother correcting her. They both knew she’d realized her mistake and was paying dearly for it. And besides that, he was too busy watching her perfectly pouty lips parting in shock.

Or was it something else? That one-of-a-kind something that both of them had been fighting...

Dear Reader,

There’s something for everyone this month! Brides, babies and cowboys...but also humor, sensuality...and delicious love stories (some without a baby in sight!).

There’s nothing as wonderful as a new book from Barbara Boswell, and this month we have a MAN OF THE MONTH written by this talented author. Who’s the Boss? is a very sexy, delightfully funny love story. As always, Barbara not only creates a masterful hero and smart-as-a-whip heroine, she also makes her secondary characters come alive!

When a pregnant woman gets stuck in a traffic jam she does the only thing she can do—talks a handsome hunk into giving her a ride to the hospital on his motorcycle in Leanne Banks’s latest, The Troublemaker Bride.

Have you ever wanted to marry a millionaire? Well, heroine Irish Ellison plans on finding a man with money in One Ticket to Texas by Jan Hudson. A single mom-to-be gets a new life in Paula Detmer Riggs’s emotional and heartwarming Daddy by Accident. And a woman with a “bad reputation” finds unexpected romance in Barbara McMahon’s Boss Lady and the Hired Hand.

Going to your high-school reunion is bad enough. But what if you were voted “Most likely to succeed”...but your success at love has been fleeting? Well, that’s just what happens in Susan Connell’s How To Succeed at Love. So read...and enjoy!

Lucia Macro

Senior Editor

Please address questions and book requests to:

Silhouette Reader Service

U.S.: 3010 Walden Ave., P.O. Box 1325, Buffalo, NY 14269

Canadian: P.O. Box 609, Fort Erie, Ont. L2A 5X3

How to Succeed at Love

Susan Connell

www.millsandboon.co.uk

SUSAN CONNELL

has a love of traveling that has taken her all over the world—Greece, Spain, Portugal, Central and South America, to name just a few places. While working for the foreign service she met a U.S. Navy pilot, and eight days later they were engaged. Twenty-one years and several moves later, Susan, her husband, Jim, and daughter, Catherine, call the New Jersey shore home. When she’s not writing, her part-time job at a local bookstore, Mediterranean cooking and traveling with her family are some of her favorite activities. Susan has been honored by New Jersey Romance Writers with their coveted Golden Leaf Award. She loves hearing from her readers.

Jim Connell, Cathy Connell,

Candace Cowdrick and Roger Cohen

For your expertise, sense of

humor and unfailing support.

One

“Smoochie?”

The baritone voice came from inches away, but as far as Jade Macleod was concerned, the sound could have been from Mars.

Was she losing her mind? Did someone just offer her a kiss? Or was this an auditory hallucination brought on by stress? Pressing her hand against the front of her gray, pin-striped business suit, she cautiously turned away from the train window to the man sitting beside her.