


It was career suicide to argue with Charles Rand, the founding partner of Rand, Royal, & Wilkes, and after nine years at the firm with a partnership lurking somewhere in the not too distant future, it would do her no good to lose her temper now. Joss closed her eyes and took a deep breath. “Joss, I need you to fly to New York to meet with Niall Reynolds.” No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means-electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other-except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without prior written permission from the author.Ī knock on Joss Perrault’s office door after six o’clock at night always spelled trouble, after seven meant possible disaster, and after eight guaranteed some kind of catastrophe, so when a distinctive triple-knock hit her door at a few minutes before nine, she cringed and just prayed for the best. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.Īll rights reserved.

Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Thankfully for her, however, George doesn’t give up so easily.This is a work of fiction. Joss is immediately smitten with her beautiful neighbor, but their conversations walk the line between friendliness and flirtation like it’s a tightrope, and Joss is reluctant to do anything that will risk their budding friendship. Before Joss can recover from being tackled by the Great Dane, she finds herself face to face with George’s mom, Maeve Dylan.

Cupid strikes as she’s moving into her new place outside Sky and, contrary to popular belief, Cupid has four legs and a tail, hits like a linebacker, and answers to the name George. Burned out on public accounting after too many sixteen-hour days, the allure of operating a small, independent bookstore is too tempting to resist, and Joss decides to walk away from the career she spent the last decade building to move back to the resort town high in the Rockies. Joss Perrault left Sky, Colorado after high school with no intention of ever returning, but all that changes when she inherits Atramentum.
