Welcome to Severance Pay

Ladies and Gentleman, I’d like to introduce you to my upcoming release Severance Pay.

It's a dirty job, but sharp HR Executive JJ Prentiss is fantastic at it. When her company acquires another, she uses expansive severance packages to make all those redundant heads go away with the least litigation possible.

She manages her personal life much the same way. Always finding herself in relationships with men who cannot emotionally or even physically return her affection, she uses the same calculated strategy to end things when its time.

And it's time.

JJ has been in love with Dennis Rains for years, but nothing has come of it mainly because the COO is her boss and hes married. She knows shes long overdue to let him go and get on with her life. So, when the Board of Directors secretly engages her to wrangle a resignation out of the brilliant Dennis no matter the cost, JJ accepts the task. She knows it will devastate Dennis when he finds out, but she needs to drive him out of her life for good.

She also has a solution for the trouble that is bad boy chef Conrad Dee. Connie is more than willing to give her the physical relationship she isnt getting from Dennis, no strings attached, but lately theres just something different about the way hes looking at her. JJ has a perfect plan, until she discovers: not everyone is interested in Severance Pay.

Yes, it’s messy… very messy.

This novel has wrung a lot out of me and challenged me on my own thoughts about relationships, specifically fidelity and expectations around social and financial responsibility. Sounds weighty. Maybe it is a little, but at it’s heart, this novel is still about falling in love and accepting it even when it’s not quite what you want. It’s possible in the journey of writing it, that I was trying to teach myself a lesson. Don’t know that I learned it. Although, to be clear, this novel isn’t about me. Every character has a little of me in them, but they are all smarter and quicker to relinquish stubborness in favor of the potential of finding love. I like my characters, even when their difficult people :).

In the interest of full disclosure… Severance Pay is not quite finished yet. Yes, I have a deadline, yes, you should still be able to get your hands on it first quarter 2013, but no, it’s not quite done. I’m having a crisis of editing. The story is a little more sensually explicit than what Grayson is typically comfortable with. But… I think it’s necessary. The topic is racy, the charactes are all intense adults in their own way, and the heroine, who tells this story from a first person perspective, is very clear on her feelings and very frank about acknowledging them as she relates her experiences. So, I feel like I'm cheating if I tone her down, sense we are inside her head. On the other hand, I don’t want sex to interfere with the enjoyment of the more subtle and complex aspects of the story. Did you just read what I just wrote? I think I’m having a relatioship with my book! ROFL!

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--Grayson