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Nine to Five: Colleages by day... lovers by night.

Baby and the Boss / Malone’s Vow / Assignment: Seduction

by Kim Lawrence, Sandra Marton, Cathy Williams

Published 2001186 pagesISBN 978-0-2638-2839-9

Colleages by day... lovers by night. *Baby and the Boss by Kim Lawrence. Staying after hours at her boss's weekend cottage to help him with his baby nephew was one thing - getting engaged to Jake Prentice just to get his twin brother out of a tight spot was another entirely! For Nia had realised that she was in love with both the baby...and the boss! *Malone's Vow by Sandra Marton. His Best Friend's Lover... Best man Liam Malone has been dispatched by the groom to bring a runaway bride back to the altar. Against his better judgment, he's tracked down the gold digger, but she surprises him in ways he couldn't imagine! *Assignment: Seduction by Cathy Williams. Melissa James considered herself immune to her gorgeous boss's charms. Only when she accompanied Robert Downe on a business trip to the Caribbean, Melissa suddenly discovered what was actually on the agenda...

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Romance, Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Romance · Fiction

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Balanced tone · Steady pace

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Reading lengthA shorter read186 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 2001
Primary categoryRomanceAlso cataloged under Fiction
ISBN-13
978-0-2638-2839-9
Language
English
Edition record
OL10282572M
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Works well for a focused weekend or a few concentrated sittings.

Begin with its place in Romance, then notice where the book resists that label.

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Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. What must each character learn before the relationship can become believable?
  2. How do work, family, friendship, or identity shape the central relationship?
  3. Does the emotional resolution feel earned by the choices that came before it?

Editorial framework by Wesley Bryan, BookenDeX Founder and Editor.