Married to His Business

Millionaire of the Month #5

by Elizabeth Bevarly

His dependable assistant of five years haddone the she had renderedMatthias speechless. She was taking anotherjob—with the competition. Matthias feltincensed, betrayed and, shockingly, a littlejealous. How had his feelings veered fromprofessional to personal? Newfound lustbegat determination. He would win herback— by any means necessary.

Genres: Romance, Contemporary Romance, Harlequin Desire, Contemporary

192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published July 1, 2007

About the author

Elizabeth Bevarly was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky and earned her BA with honors in English from the University of Louisville in 1983. Although she can’t recall ever wanting to be anything but a novelist-oh, all right, she toyed briefly with becoming an archaeologist, until she realized how awful she looked in khaki and flannel, and there was a brief fling with the interior decorator thing, until she realized she had trouble distinguishing chintz from moiré, and… (Where was I? Oh, yeah. My brilliant career.) Anyway, her career side trips before making the leap to writing included stints working as a bartender, a waitress, a movie theater cashier, a soap-hawker for Crabtree & Evelyn, an apparel-hawker for The Limited, and a bridal registry consultant for a major department store. She also did time as an editorial assistant for a medical journal, where she learned the correct spellings and meanings of a variety of words (like microscopy and histological) which, with any luck at all, she will never use again in this life.

She wrote her first novel when she was twelve years old. It was 32 pages long-and that was with college rule notebook paper-and featured three girls named Liz, Marianne and Cheryl, who explored the mysteries of a haunted house. Her friends Marianne and Cheryl proclaimed it “Brilliant! Spellbinding! Kept me up past dinnertime reading!” Those rave reviews only kindled the fire inside her to write more.

Since sixth grade, Elizabeth has gone on to complete more than 60 works of contemporary romance. Her novels regularly appear on the USA Today and Waldenbooks bestseller lists, and The Thing About Men was a New York Times Extended List bestseller. She’s been nominated for the prestigious RITA Award, has won the coveted National Readers’ Choice Award, and Romantic Times magazine has seen fit to honor her with two-count ‘em TWO-Career Achievement Awards. Her books have been translated into two dozen languages and published in three dozen countries, and there are more than ten million copies in print worldwide. She has claimed as residences Washington, DC, northern Virginia, southern New Jersey and Puerto Rico, but she now resides back in her native Kentucky with her husband and son and two very troubled cats where she fully intends to remain.

Reviews

[Ana M. Román · Rating 1 out of 5]

Un “matatiempo” total. No es una gran historia aunque tampoco esperaba encontrármela. Sin embargo, es que no me ha parecido bueno ni el romance entre los dos.

En ningún momento tuve la sensación de que se gustaran y mucho menos de que estuvieran enamorados. De hecho, si no es porque los personajes lo dicen expresamente nunca lo hubiera adivinado, así de inexistente es la química entre ellos.

Tampoco me han entrado muchas ganas de saber nada del resto de personajes de la serie.

[Corrine · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love Elizabeth Bevarly's quirky sense of humor, so I was really glad to see this book in a lot of SDs I bought on eBay. I think category is where Bevarly shines, because in full-length, she tends to use the same joke over and over and have so many storylines that the main romance really gets broken up and loses some tension.

Kendall is putting in her two weeks notice - for good this time - when her boss Matthias Barton does the unthinkable, and fires her! Since Kendall is going to work for the competitor, he doesn't want her privvy to any more company secrets and warns her that the only reason her new boss promoted her from PA to VP was to get insider tips. Kendall leaves, incensed and not a little hurt, that after five years of loyalty, Matthias could doubt her. Matthias, however, finds out quickly that without Kendall his business - and his life - don't run quite as smoothly.

As Kendall is beginning her orientation (which is somewhat suspect because she's the only employee, it's in Lake Tahoe instead of San Francisco, and the inn turns out to be a cozy honeymoon spot) Matthias is settling in to his deceased friend Hunter's cabin to fulfill his part of Hunter's will. It just so happens that is also in Lake Tahoe, putting him within range of Kendall, who he desperately wants, he begins to realize, not just as his PA, but as something more.

I really loved the antics in this book: Matthias dropping in on Kendall to offer her job back, him calling her with problems just to trick her into getting him a cup of coffee. Matthias is hilariously inept with small gadgets - really, any technology - and he has always depended on Kendall to help him out.

Kendall, on the other hand, knows she's meant to be more than a PA, and won't give in to Matthias' cajoling. And now that she's no longer working for him, the crush she's always put on the back-burner is flaring to life, and she can't help but think how adorable he is. But of course, captain of industry that he is, Matthias would never be interested in her. Or so she thinks.

Great chemistry, great characters, and a funny twist on the boss/employee plot. B+

[Maura · Rating 3 out of 5]

Matthias is the other Barton twin that we met in Luke's story. In this, we find out that he's a self-absorbed workaholic who cannot accomplish anything without the help of his dedicated personal assistant, Kendall. Except, she's not so dedicated anymore because she's tired of working a job she's entirely overqualified for...so she gets a job with Matthias's competitor. She turns in her resignation, he fires her on the spot and Matthias ends up dead in the water with no idea how to do anything for himself. They meet up again in Tahoe while she is doing "orientation" for her new job, which she finds suspicious because she's the only one there with her new boss. And Matthias is doing his month at the lodge. He keeps trying to entice her back and entice her to stay with him, but Kendall knows he isn't seeing what she wants and needs. Circumstances keep putting them together and both start to see a side to each other they'd never had a chance to see before. And pretty sure that turns to romance. Matthias knows he needs to keep Kendall with him, but in what capacity?

This was overall pretty enjoyable. I like that Kendall was a strong woman who was willing to stand up for what she wanted. She wants to make her mark in business and the PA job was just a stepping stone...but Matthias keeps offering her her same job back and she's not going back, no matter how much money, because it isn't challenging to her. She's quite naive in signing up for a job with a competitor and not seeing what that was about, but I can't blame her. She's just looking for her leg up into the business world and Matthias certainly isn't giving it to her. Matthias rubbed me the wrong way in his selfishness. All he sees is that HE needs Kendall...he seems to think it's in a work-related capacity, he later realizes it's just love and he doesn't want to lose her. This was his big realization, but my problem with that is that he just kept trying to put Kendall back in her peg-hole. He knows she wants bigger and better things and he's got his own frickin' company, but he can't figure giving her an executive spot somewhere? He wants her to stay that badly and he can't give her a job to let her be a success in her own right? It all revolves around him. He became much more likeable as the story progressed and he got to know Kendall, but in the end he reverts back to selfish. His turn around to completely unselfish and totally in love happens a little too fast for me to believe it, and I still think his work is going to come first and always be more important than hers. Author didn't quite convince me that he was totally redeemed.

[Jennell Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful story. I've read all the books in this series

[GuisBell · Rating 3 out of 5]

A primera, segunda y cuantas vistas les des, son el uno para el otro jajajajaja, sip simplemente se hacen los difíciles...

[Priscilla · Rating 1 out of 5]

Quinto volume da série Milionário do Mês.

Onde o heroi só gosta da mocinha se ela estiver totalmente disponível para suprir as necessidades físicas, emocionais, comerciais, etc. para ele.

[Aleksandra · Rating 4 out of 5]

The main reason I gave 4* to this book is that I laughed my head off! I can perfectly imagine him as a regular well off boss (not necessarily a millionaire, mind you!) in quarrel with anything digital, arrogant enough not to see a good thing while he had it and clever to fight, using any means necessary to get it back!

[Marina · Rating 4 out of 5]

#5 out of 6 in the Millionaire of the Month series by various authors. I enjoyed this book a lot. Love the idea for this series. Sweet story.

[rivka · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 stars

Amusing but completely forgettable.

[Allison · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good

[Leslie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved the storyline! Enjoyed how she came back to and helped her boss and he was even willing to change the rules!!

[Veromika · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute and Sweet and Short...

3 loving Stars..!!