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Hired for the Boss's Bed
Working in Sydney's most dynamic advertising agency, Serena Stevens has just landed the agency's biggest account—this will make or break her career….
Serena's sexy boss, tycoon David Miles, may be all business in the boardroom, but soon he wants a little business in the bedroom!
One wild night later, Serena has to career versus love, her dream job versus her hot boss! What's a girl to do?
Serena's sexy boss, tycoon David Miles, may be all business in the boardroom, but soon he wants a little business in the bedroom!
One wild night later, Serena has to career versus love, her dream job versus her hot boss! What's a girl to do?
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published March 1, 2008
About the author
Robyn Grady
334 books76 followersRobyn received a book from her big sister and immediately fell in love with Cinderella. Sprinklings of magic, deepest wishes come true - she was hooked! Picture books with glass slippers later gave way to romance novels. When she was older, she wanted to write one.
However, in junior high, Robyn hit a stumbling block - a disheartening grade of one out of ten for a book review. Confused and hurt, she asked her hundred-and-thirty-year-old English teacher why the low mark? The wizened schoolmarm sniffed, "You obviously had a senior do it for you." Thankfully Robyn's business teacher was a honey.
Following a fifteen-year career behind the scenes in television, Robyn knew the time was right to pursue her dream of becoming a published author. Late in 2004, she received a phone call from a London editor. She'd submitted a manuscript to the Sweet line, which were featuring lighter, sexier stories to be released under the Tango banner. The editor was very interested in her story, but for a brand new line.
Robyn didn't stop smiling for a week, but sometime later learned her revised manuscript hadn't hit the mark. Then she received another call and another request for revisions to a second manuscript! That didn't sell either. On a third manuscript she received a very long, very detail email, asking for, what would turn out to be, a complete rewrite. Having torn out most of her hair, but with 13 contest finals in 2006 (including winning the Golden Pen and Where the Magic Begins), she finished the rewrite then contacted a New York agent. That wonderful agent took her on, and Robyn sold in a matter of weeks, first to Silhouette Desire, then Modern Heat (Sexy Sensation/Presents) with a two book deal! She is currently writing manuscript number fourteen.
Robyn lives with her own modern-day hero on Australia's Sunshine Coast with their three little princesses, as well as two poodles and a cat called Tinkie. She has majors in English literature and psychology, and loves new shoes, worn jeans, visits to the theatre and lunches at picturesque Moffat Beach with her writer friends.
However, in junior high, Robyn hit a stumbling block - a disheartening grade of one out of ten for a book review. Confused and hurt, she asked her hundred-and-thirty-year-old English teacher why the low mark? The wizened schoolmarm sniffed, "You obviously had a senior do it for you." Thankfully Robyn's business teacher was a honey.
Following a fifteen-year career behind the scenes in television, Robyn knew the time was right to pursue her dream of becoming a published author. Late in 2004, she received a phone call from a London editor. She'd submitted a manuscript to the Sweet line, which were featuring lighter, sexier stories to be released under the Tango banner. The editor was very interested in her story, but for a brand new line.
Robyn didn't stop smiling for a week, but sometime later learned her revised manuscript hadn't hit the mark. Then she received another call and another request for revisions to a second manuscript! That didn't sell either. On a third manuscript she received a very long, very detail email, asking for, what would turn out to be, a complete rewrite. Having torn out most of her hair, but with 13 contest finals in 2006 (including winning the Golden Pen and Where the Magic Begins), she finished the rewrite then contacted a New York agent. That wonderful agent took her on, and Robyn sold in a matter of weeks, first to Silhouette Desire, then Modern Heat (Sexy Sensation/Presents) with a two book deal! She is currently writing manuscript number fourteen.
Robyn lives with her own modern-day hero on Australia's Sunshine Coast with their three little princesses, as well as two poodles and a cat called Tinkie. She has majors in English literature and psychology, and loves new shoes, worn jeans, visits to the theatre and lunches at picturesque Moffat Beach with her writer friends.
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July 21, 2012
This is a rom-com, sweet, funny yet emotional & intense. Beautifully written, with very likeable characters. A hero in pursuit, and, for once, a heroine who doesn't want commitment coz she wants to follow her dream.
Serena is a bundle of fun, humor & ambition, determination to succeed, to follow her business dream. Labeled least -likely -to - succeed as a kid, because of her dyslexia, she has a " personal mountain to climb" , to get over her insecurities & prove herself. She finds herself held between her love for David & her dream to work overseas & the feeling that the more she succeed, the more David dismiss her ideas,
David is a beta hero, he is fun & tender, but proud & stubborn. But love always wins in harlequinland. Serena & David get their HEA.
Serena is a bundle of fun, humor & ambition, determination to succeed, to follow her business dream. Labeled least -likely -to - succeed as a kid, because of her dyslexia, she has a " personal mountain to climb" , to get over her insecurities & prove herself. She finds herself held between her love for David & her dream to work overseas & the feeling that the more she succeed, the more David dismiss her ideas,
David is a beta hero, he is fun & tender, but proud & stubborn. But love always wins in harlequinland. Serena & David get their HEA.
February 16, 2025
I didn't like it. The heroine was way too career focused, she basically chose a job over hero and at the end he to planned to completely uproot his life for her career ambitions (he said he would open a company where ever she went so he could be with her). Np.
February 16, 2012
:D this one was very nice read... the heroine Serena was totally pain in the butt!! huh!! she tortured our poor guy.. I just wanted to slap some sense in her that time... and our hero.. aww... what a way to propose... love yoouuu.... muuaahhh!!!
November 22, 2015
Lu en français (Une attirance impossible) - Anthologie Une nuit avec Un patron irrésistible
Une histoire sympa où l'un des deux héros sera obligé de faire des concessions pour l'autre. Le début très marrant, la fin émouvante. La décision finale me convient tout à fait.
Une histoire sympa où l'un des deux héros sera obligé de faire des concessions pour l'autre. Le début très marrant, la fin émouvante. La décision finale me convient tout à fait.
July 10, 2009
I wish it never ended:( Good Read
April 27, 2017
Serena is a highly ambitious junior exec in an advertising agency whose boss, David Miles, offers her an incredible opportunity to take on a campaign. They spend a little time together and the fireworks explode. But Serena has got to stay focused on her job and her ambition. David though, having been burned in an office romance once before, is willing to take a chance again when it comes to Serena. And he can't let her go. But Serena's goal is to live overseas, so that won't bode well for any relationship they begin.
First off - I loved Miles. Yes, he was pretty prideful and he wasn't exactly open about his feelings for Serena, but in the end, because of her actions, Miles ended up being the sympathetic character in all of this. He fell hard for Serena, tried to get her to lighten up a bit and he was the sharer of the two. He was the one who talked about things. Serena was not so sympathetic. I am totally for ambition, but not at the expense of someone else's feelings. I could not sympathize with her after Miles told her about his previous love, the one who left him in the middle of a campaign and hied off to another country for her ambition, and then she does the same thing. (No, she didn't leave in the midst of the campaign, but evidently she was still working on it). Then she has the gall to get upset that he compares her to his ex. I might have been able to be a bit more forgiving toward her under two circumstances - first, had she been a bit more communicative about herself. If she'd made it clear that living overseas (and thus leaving him) was as important as it was and that he needed to keep her eventual leaving in mind. It especially killed me that during conversations she'd consciously think how much it would affect him when she left and how would she tell him, but then she didn't. Second, had she not been such a disloyal bitch and left his company at the first available opportunity. This guy gives her the fastest promotion imaginable, as she puts it, from "junior exect, to exec, to star," in just 3 months and because her BOSS has the nerve to turn down some of her ideas, she immediately takes a job opportunity that was offered through a 3rd party. But no - he's "holding her back," and she's apparently not rising fast enough. David deserved someone more loyal and someone willing to go the mile for him as well. Which is why it irked me that he was the one who did all the sacrificing and she didn't even have to make a token sacrifice for him or even a compromise for that matter. She frustrated me. That being said, right up until she went all disloyal on his ass, this was a pretty great story, but I was not a fan of how that turned out.
First off - I loved Miles. Yes, he was pretty prideful and he wasn't exactly open about his feelings for Serena, but in the end, because of her actions, Miles ended up being the sympathetic character in all of this. He fell hard for Serena, tried to get her to lighten up a bit and he was the sharer of the two. He was the one who talked about things. Serena was not so sympathetic. I am totally for ambition, but not at the expense of someone else's feelings. I could not sympathize with her after Miles told her about his previous love, the one who left him in the middle of a campaign and hied off to another country for her ambition, and then she does the same thing. (No, she didn't leave in the midst of the campaign, but evidently she was still working on it). Then she has the gall to get upset that he compares her to his ex. I might have been able to be a bit more forgiving toward her under two circumstances - first, had she been a bit more communicative about herself. If she'd made it clear that living overseas (and thus leaving him) was as important as it was and that he needed to keep her eventual leaving in mind. It especially killed me that during conversations she'd consciously think how much it would affect him when she left and how would she tell him, but then she didn't. Second, had she not been such a disloyal bitch and left his company at the first available opportunity. This guy gives her the fastest promotion imaginable, as she puts it, from "junior exect, to exec, to star," in just 3 months and because her BOSS has the nerve to turn down some of her ideas, she immediately takes a job opportunity that was offered through a 3rd party. But no - he's "holding her back," and she's apparently not rising fast enough. David deserved someone more loyal and someone willing to go the mile for him as well. Which is why it irked me that he was the one who did all the sacrificing and she didn't even have to make a token sacrifice for him or even a compromise for that matter. She frustrated me. That being said, right up until she went all disloyal on his ass, this was a pretty great story, but I was not a fan of how that turned out.
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