My First Page Friday guest this week is fellow
KISS author,
Joss Wood, who is giving us a taste of her 4.5 star TOP PICK debut book
IT WAS ONLY A KISS.
Here’s the blurb!
Luke Savage never failed! Ok there was the
marriage thing, he’d dropped the ball on that one, but in his defence he’d been
duped from the beginning. Now he was divorcing Satan’s sister, so everything
was back on track. That was until a beautiful, cocky twenty-something interning
in his marketing department waltzed into his office and announced his marketing
plan, for his recently inherited family vineyard, sucked!
Jess Sherwood was bright, ambitious and a
know-it-all. She was also gorgeous as sin and made Luke feel things he
shouldn’t. But that didn’t excuse her intrusion into his office and her blatant
disregard for his authority in his own company. So after kissing her senseless,
Luke fires Jess and kicks her out of his office. No way was an arrogant little
madam with all of five minutes experience going to tell him his business would
fail!
Eight years later, Luke’s family vineyard
is failing. With the insurmountable debts he’s inherited from his father to pay
off, Luke is struggling to keep St Sylve Vineyards afloat. A successful
businessman in his own right, it would be so easy to sell up and return to his
own thriving company. But how can he sell off the work of his many fore-fathers
and generations his family’s history? Luke has never failed in business before
and he isn’t about to start now. What he needs is a hip new marketing strategy…
and he knows just the woman for the job! Their only problem is how to keep
their minds on work and off that kiss!
And here’s the first page…
Eight years ago…
‘So,
in conclusion I think the marketing strategy your people presented to you is
hackneyed, stupid and asinine and plays absolutely no attention to your
demographics, to the market research and to where your competitors are placing
themselves. It’s under researched and knocked together and if you follow it I
guarantee that you will lose most of your market share in five years time, if
not your business.’
Luke
Savage looked across his messy desk at the earnest young woman perched on the
edge of her chair, her face animated with youthful zeal and healthy dose of
arrogance. What was her name again? He glanced down at her file in front of
him─ Jess Sherwood. She was twenty-two, he read and was currently doing her MBA
in marketing. The file did state that she was over blessed with brains, her
school and university achievements were─ to put it mildly─ impressive but it
failed to mention that she was solidly gorgeous as well.
A
true brown eyed blonde.
She
was quite a parcel and boy, did she know it…
Luke
kept his face impassive as she draped one long, slim leg over the other and
lightly linked her hands around a bare knee, an index finger tapping away. She
wore a short, flouncy dress falling off one shoulder and showing a thin purple
bra strap; belted at slim hips by a broad leather belt. Falling to mid-thigh,
it was too short, too casual and too sexy an outfit for work but she wore it
with careless confidence.
Luke,
who was seldom surprised at much, was taken aback by her self-importance and
her balls-to-the-wall chutzpah.
‘Wood’s tortured hero
is believable and compelling and the story takes readers on a passionate,
emotional rollercoaster ride.’ Sabrina Madan RT Book Reviews Top Pick
for May.
Click to read on in the US Or at Harlequin Australia
