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Cooper's Corner #17
Trade Secrets
Passion can be a risky business
A group of MBA students at Harvard make a pact - to each become CEO of a Fortune 500 company before they reached forty. Now their friendships, their loves and even their lives were at stake...
Dealing with Annie by Jill Shavis
Annie Hughes has become the Martha Stewart of cosmetics. But when DEA agent Ethan McCall warned Annie that her company was the target of sabotage - and that she was in danger - she wouldn't listen. Then Annie disappeared. And only Ethan could rescue her.
Deal of a Lifetime by C.J. Carmichael
Quinn Huntington founded his corporation on loyalty and trust. Yet he agreed to meet Meredith Hayden when she approached him with insider information on his competitor. He told himself he was just playing along until he figured out her angle. But if he was honest, he knew his true motive was his passion for Meredith.
The intimacy of Cooper's Corner...
The high stakes of Wall Street
512 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published September 1, 2003
197 people want to read
About the author
Jill Shalvis
381 books13.8k followersJill Shalvis is a NYT, USA Today, and Amazon Top 100 bestselling author of small-town romance and romcoms, known for big feels, found family, and plenty of shenanigans.
If you love small-town chaos, meddling friends and neighbors, sizzling chemistry, and heroes who fall hard for the one woman they absolutely did not plan on, you’re in the right place. Jill’s books blend laugh-out-loud moments with emotional gut punches, slow-burn tension, and deeply earned happily ever afters.
She writes the stories she loves to read: small-town romance and romantic comedies packed with heart, heat, second chances, grumpy/sunshine sparks, and the kind of found-family vibes that make you want to move right into the pages. Many of her series are perfect for binge-reading, and a number of her books are available in Kindle Unlimited and at major retailers.
When she’s not writing, she’s probably plotting new ways to torture her characters, avoiding laundry, or daydreaming about fictional men and the strong, complicated women who bring them to their knees—and then making them work for it.
You can follow Jill here on Goodreads to keep up with new releases, add her books to your shelves, and discover which small town you want to get lost in next.
If you love small-town chaos, meddling friends and neighbors, sizzling chemistry, and heroes who fall hard for the one woman they absolutely did not plan on, you’re in the right place. Jill’s books blend laugh-out-loud moments with emotional gut punches, slow-burn tension, and deeply earned happily ever afters.
She writes the stories she loves to read: small-town romance and romantic comedies packed with heart, heat, second chances, grumpy/sunshine sparks, and the kind of found-family vibes that make you want to move right into the pages. Many of her series are perfect for binge-reading, and a number of her books are available in Kindle Unlimited and at major retailers.
When she’s not writing, she’s probably plotting new ways to torture her characters, avoiding laundry, or daydreaming about fictional men and the strong, complicated women who bring them to their knees—and then making them work for it.
You can follow Jill here on Goodreads to keep up with new releases, add her books to your shelves, and discover which small town you want to get lost in next.
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September 18, 2025
Trade Secrets is actually comprised of two novels: Jill Shalvis' Dealing With Annie and C. J. Carmichael's Deal of a Lifetime. Cooper's Corner, Massachusetts is the setting for these stories. Deal of a Lifetime mixes high stakes business with pleasure and is a fun romance. It can easily be read in one sitting.
I really enjoyed Jill Shalvis's story Dealing With Annie. It is a romantic suspense story--heavy on the suspense, which I liked. I prefer closed door love scenes and this book only vered off into "hot and heavy" towards the very end of the book. The book's suspense and mystery of "who done it" surprised me in the end. Well written.
I really enjoyed Jill Shalvis's story Dealing With Annie. It is a romantic suspense story--heavy on the suspense, which I liked. I prefer closed door love scenes and this book only vered off into "hot and heavy" towards the very end of the book. The book's suspense and mystery of "who done it" surprised me in the end. Well written.
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