The Contract
By Melanie Moreland
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Genre: Romance
A tyrant by day, a
playboy by night. That is the reputation that precedes Richard VanRyan. He
lives life the way he wants, no concern for the opinion of others. He cares for
no one, is completely unrepentant, and he has no desire to change his ways.
Katharine Elliott works
under Richard as his PA. She despises him and his questionable ethics, but
endures all the garbage he sends her way, because she needs the job. Her end
goal is far more important than the daily abuse and demands she tolerates from
her nasty tyrant of a boss.
Until the day, he asks
her for something she never expected. A new role with a personal contract —
fiancée instead of PA.
What happens when two
people who loathe each other, have to live together and act as though they are
madly in love?
Sparks.
That’s what happens.
Can the power of love
really change a person?
Will they survive the
contract?
What do you do when the
one person you hate the most becomes the one person you can’t live without?
I tilted my head. “I
apologize. I’ll try to do better. Is there anything else you want since we’re
putting everything on the table?”
She hesitated, her
fingers worrying the ugly shirt she wore.
“Spit it out.”
“You can’t, um, you
can’t mess around while we’re doing . . . while we’re together.”
“Mess around?”
She looked everywhere
but at me. “You can’t sleep with other women. I won’t be humiliated like that.”
“So what you’re saying
is: I can’t fuck anyone?”
Her cheeks were so red I
thought her head would explode; however, she straightened her shoulders and
looked right at me. “Yes.”
This was too fun for me.
“Yes, I can fuck
around?”
“No!”
“No fucking,” I
enunciated the last word.
“No.”
“You expect me to remain
celibate the whole time?” I asked, now incredulous.
“I will be, so I expect
you to do the same.”
I snorted. “I doubt it’s
anything new for you.”
She threw up her hands.
“That’s it. You want to fuck someone? Go fuck yourself, VanRyan.”
Melanie Moreland lives a
happy and content life in a quiet area of Ontario with her beloved husband of
twenty-six-plus years. Nothing means more to her than her friends and family,
and she cherishes every moment spent with them.
Known as the quiet one
with the big laugh, Melanie works at a local university and for its football
team. Her job, while demanding, is rewarding as she cheers on her team to
victory.
While seriously addicted
to coffee, and highly challenged with all things computer-related and
technical, she relishes baking, cooking, and trying new recipes for people to
sample. She loves to throw dinner parties, and also enjoys travelling, here and
abroad, but finds coming home is always the best part of any trip.
Melanie delights in a
good romance story with some bumps along the way, but is a true believer in
happily ever after. When her head isn’t buried in a book, it is bent over a
keyboard, furiously typing away as her characters dictate their creative
storylines to her, often with a large glass of wine keeping her company.
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