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Summer of Secrets #2
Seducida Por El Jefe
Aquel cambio de los negocios al placer iba a tener sus consecuencias…
Harta de que el hombre del que llevaba años enamorada ni siquiera la viera, Kara Sloan decidió hacer las maletas y marcharse. Pero justo cuando estaba a punto de irse, Cooper Lonergan, su adorado jefe, la sorprendió con una noche de pasión. No podía dejar que se le escapara la única mujer que ponía orden en su caos. El plan de Cooper era hacer todo lo que estuviera en sus manos para que Kara no saliera de su vida… incluyendo llevársela a la cama.
Harta de que el hombre del que llevaba años enamorada ni siquiera la viera, Kara Sloan decidió hacer las maletas y marcharse. Pero justo cuando estaba a punto de irse, Cooper Lonergan, su adorado jefe, la sorprendió con una noche de pasión. No podía dejar que se le escapara la única mujer que ponía orden en su caos. El plan de Cooper era hacer todo lo que estuviera en sus manos para que Kara no saliera de su vida… incluyendo llevársela a la cama.
160 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published May 9, 2006
About the author
Maureen Child
1,166 books551 followersUSA Today best selling author Maureen Child is the author of more than ninety romance novels and novellas. Maureen is a five time nominee for the prestigious Rita award from Romance Writers of America.
One of her novels, A Pocketful Of Paradise, was made into a CBS-TV movie called The Soul Collector, starring Melissa Gilbert, Bruce Greenwood and Ossie Davis.
Over the years, she’s written under lots of different names and she prefers the term ‘pseudonym’ to ‘alias’. As Ann Carberry, she wrote western historical romances. As Kathleen Kane, she wrote not only Americana romances, but western paranormal romances as well. As Sarah Hart, she wrote one really spectacular western paranormal that is still one of her favorites. And once, Ann Carberry even wrote a Victorian historical which she absolutely loved doing.
Under her own name, Maureen writes short contemporary novels for Silhouette Desire—books she loves to write because of their fast pace and condensed story telling. Maureen is also writing funny, contemporary paranormal romances for NAL and darker paranormal stories for Silhouette Nocturne.
Maureen writes paranormal romance novels under the pesudonym of Regan Hastings
One of her novels, A Pocketful Of Paradise, was made into a CBS-TV movie called The Soul Collector, starring Melissa Gilbert, Bruce Greenwood and Ossie Davis.
Over the years, she’s written under lots of different names and she prefers the term ‘pseudonym’ to ‘alias’. As Ann Carberry, she wrote western historical romances. As Kathleen Kane, she wrote not only Americana romances, but western paranormal romances as well. As Sarah Hart, she wrote one really spectacular western paranormal that is still one of her favorites. And once, Ann Carberry even wrote a Victorian historical which she absolutely loved doing.
Under her own name, Maureen writes short contemporary novels for Silhouette Desire—books she loves to write because of their fast pace and condensed story telling. Maureen is also writing funny, contemporary paranormal romances for NAL and darker paranormal stories for Silhouette Nocturne.
Maureen writes paranormal romance novels under the pesudonym of Regan Hastings
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May 12, 2018
I’m not a fan of the ‘poor PA pining away quietly for a selfish blind boss’ trope. Gets my goat like nothing else. Quit, girl and get a life! (Which they all are contemplating when the book begins!)
So why am I reading this and enjoying it. (At least the first half.)
The book makes you smile just as it makes you feel a pang. So bittersweet!
She was in love and he was in like.
He’d slipped up on her. Sneaked under her defenses. Damn it, he’d made her fall in love with him without even trying and didn’t even have the decency to notice.
“Thank God you’re here.”A brief flash of something that might have been hope darted through her. “You missed me?”
“Boy, did I? Please tell me you brought real coffee and my cookies.”
“And bagels. Oh God, tell me you remembered the bagels.”
“Yes, I remembered the bagels,” she muttered…
“That’s why I can’t live without you.”
Words spoken so easily, so lightly. She knew it meant nothing to him, but if they were only true, what those words would mean to her.
And so on it goes…
Okay, the H is not a shallow jerk - just a blind self absorbed one. See, he has a history - complete with a tortured past excuse.
No, not a woman this time. Something more serious.
But still the most difficult thing to assimilate is the complete absence of sexual curiosity or awareness from the H’s side - before now. And then they become soulmates? Suddenly all he can see or desire is her? I cannot imagine two young, attractive people practically living in each other's pockets - and never wondering. The H for 5 years and the h for 4 years before she falls for him.
And within few days they go on to achieve a hea?
The book dips midway (contrarily) when he starts showing interest, doing house work *eyeroll* and the sub-track makes an appearance.
The very nebulous sub-track. Literally.
So why am I reading this and enjoying it. (At least the first half.)
The book makes you smile just as it makes you feel a pang. So bittersweet!
She was in love and he was in like.
He’d slipped up on her. Sneaked under her defenses. Damn it, he’d made her fall in love with him without even trying and didn’t even have the decency to notice.
“Thank God you’re here.”A brief flash of something that might have been hope darted through her. “You missed me?”
“Boy, did I? Please tell me you brought real coffee and my cookies.”
“And bagels. Oh God, tell me you remembered the bagels.”
“Yes, I remembered the bagels,” she muttered…
“That’s why I can’t live without you.”
Words spoken so easily, so lightly. She knew it meant nothing to him, but if they were only true, what those words would mean to her.
And so on it goes…
Okay, the H is not a shallow jerk - just a blind self absorbed one. See, he has a history - complete with a tortured past excuse.
No, not a woman this time. Something more serious.
But still the most difficult thing to assimilate is the complete absence of sexual curiosity or awareness from the H’s side - before now. And then they become soulmates? Suddenly all he can see or desire is her? I cannot imagine two young, attractive people practically living in each other's pockets - and never wondering. The H for 5 years and the h for 4 years before she falls for him.
And within few days they go on to achieve a hea?
The book dips midway (contrarily) when he starts showing interest, doing house work *eyeroll* and the sub-track makes an appearance.
The very nebulous sub-track. Literally.
June 30, 2015
This is the middle one of a trilogy about three cousins who have come back to the place they spent their summers as children with their grandfather. They have avoided it for fifteen years after a tragedy but grandfather forced the pace by threatening to die.
This is Cooper's story. He's a writer of horror stories and along with his assistant Kara, has rented the old haunted house he remembers from his childhood. Kara has been his assistant for five years but recently she has realized her feelings for Cooper are not assistantly at all. She does everything for him and as she says when she decides to quit. "It's like we are married but without the sex."
Now that's not the right thing to say to a man who is just starting to notice your curves thanks to a little woowoo. Yes, the haunted house plays a part. It's kind of cute in this case and progresses the story but not generally my thing. I'm also not too keen on boss/assistant stories where she has spent five years watching him shag other women but it wasn't in your face in this case.
As a Desire there is naturally some smexy which was mostly well done apart from a bit a preachiness over the condoms. Both times it took me right out of the story in the middle of the interesting bits. But that's probably just me. The story was very nice and the ending well done. An epilogue sets up the last book.
This is Cooper's story. He's a writer of horror stories and along with his assistant Kara, has rented the old haunted house he remembers from his childhood. Kara has been his assistant for five years but recently she has realized her feelings for Cooper are not assistantly at all. She does everything for him and as she says when she decides to quit. "It's like we are married but without the sex."
Now that's not the right thing to say to a man who is just starting to notice your curves thanks to a little woowoo. Yes, the haunted house plays a part. It's kind of cute in this case and progresses the story but not generally my thing. I'm also not too keen on boss/assistant stories where she has spent five years watching him shag other women but it wasn't in your face in this case.
As a Desire there is naturally some smexy which was mostly well done apart from a bit a preachiness over the condoms. Both times it took me right out of the story in the middle of the interesting bits. But that's probably just me. The story was very nice and the ending well done. An epilogue sets up the last book.
March 24, 2017
Cooper the blind man, Kara the enabler and the ghost.
I liked this better than the first book. Kara has been Cooper's assistant for 5 years and as she says when she quits, she is like his wife except she doesn't get any of the perks of marriage.. like sex!
So finally after dithering for the first 3rd of the story (of course she's been dithering for a couple years already) she quits. It was delicious. ; )
Although she had noticed Cooper as a man a couple years ago, he didn't notice her until just before she quits. I was kinda disappointed by this. I mean she was there every single day for years and he never checked out her ass? What kinda neutered guy is he? He did date since he'd known her but the author leaves it pretty much unaddressed if any of these dates had been recent and how many.
Cooper has rented the house to write his latest horror novel, because it is haunted, and because he doesn't want to stay on the ranch with his Grandpa. It brings back bad memories of his cousin who died in a terrible accident when they were all teenagers. (all this is spelled out in the first book and again in the start of this one if you didn't read that book).
The ghost(s) doesn't show herself til Kara arrives.
It's cute and I enjoyed Cooper's Come to Jesus moment at the end when he woos Kara in a satisfyingly dramatic fashion. Kind of made up for his obliviousness at the start of the book.
The epilogue is the set up for the 3rd book where the Grandfather finally reveals his reason for blackmailing his grandsons into spending the summer with him.
I liked this better than the first book. Kara has been Cooper's assistant for 5 years and as she says when she quits, she is like his wife except she doesn't get any of the perks of marriage.. like sex!
So finally after dithering for the first 3rd of the story (of course she's been dithering for a couple years already) she quits. It was delicious. ; )
Although she had noticed Cooper as a man a couple years ago, he didn't notice her until just before she quits. I was kinda disappointed by this. I mean she was there every single day for years and he never checked out her ass? What kinda neutered guy is he? He did date since he'd known her but the author leaves it pretty much unaddressed if any of these dates had been recent and how many.
Cooper has rented the house to write his latest horror novel, because it is haunted, and because he doesn't want to stay on the ranch with his Grandpa. It brings back bad memories of his cousin who died in a terrible accident when they were all teenagers. (all this is spelled out in the first book and again in the start of this one if you didn't read that book).
The ghost(s) doesn't show herself til Kara arrives.
It's cute and I enjoyed Cooper's Come to Jesus moment at the end when he woos Kara in a satisfyingly dramatic fashion. Kind of made up for his obliviousness at the start of the book.
The epilogue is the set up for the 3rd book where the Grandfather finally reveals his reason for blackmailing his grandsons into spending the summer with him.
November 20, 2017
Fue una historia bonita, los protagonistas me gustaron mucho y me intrigó conocer la historia de los otros primos, espero sean también muy lindas.
December 21, 2025
En Seducida por el jefe conocemos a Cooper, un escritor de historias de terror que regresó al rancho de su abuelo al saber que estaba ”muy enfermo” porque de otra forma no volvería ante los tristes recuerdos de ese lugar. Él se está hospedando cerca y en una casa en la que supuestamente hay un fantasma. Nuestro protagonista también está atormentado por lo sucedido en el lago 15 años atrás con su primo Mac y no busca redención ni amor.
Kara en cambio, lleva trabajando para Cooper cinco años hasta que se dio cuenta que ha estado enamorada de él. Ella viaja al rancho para dar por terminada su relación laboral ante ese cambio de sentimientos y sabiendo que Cooper solo la ve como una asistente. Pero no renuncia porque lo ama y se queda en esa casa con él aún cuando suceden cosas extrañas.
Me gustó la historia de esta pareja, su desarrollo individual y su evolución personal, especialmente la de Cooper y su escena en el lago. Fue muy profunda y conmovedora.
El final fue completamente inesperado y no puedo esperar para leer el tercer libro.
📖: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🌶️: 🔥🔥🔥
Kara en cambio, lleva trabajando para Cooper cinco años hasta que se dio cuenta que ha estado enamorada de él. Ella viaja al rancho para dar por terminada su relación laboral ante ese cambio de sentimientos y sabiendo que Cooper solo la ve como una asistente. Pero no renuncia porque lo ama y se queda en esa casa con él aún cuando suceden cosas extrañas.
Me gustó la historia de esta pareja, su desarrollo individual y su evolución personal, especialmente la de Cooper y su escena en el lago. Fue muy profunda y conmovedora.
El final fue completamente inesperado y no puedo esperar para leer el tercer libro.
📖: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🌶️: 🔥🔥🔥
December 28, 2016
Como los libros de esta editorial, es bueno para pasar el rato. Me gustó en general, tuvo un poco más de misterio de lo que creí.
March 14, 2019
Harlenkýnky většinou nečtu, ale tahle byla docela fajn.. Romantika a duchovno 😁
January 8, 2014
TOUCHING W/ AN END I NEVER SAW COMING!!
Nearing the end of a second of a three book series you pretty much know the storyline: Young, impressionable boys experience the horrible death of the beloved fourth family member, feel responsible, parents seem inexplicably absent in providing solace or counseling. We meet each of these three men fifteen years later when the grandfather they had all LOVED call them back to the scene of the accident by devious means. In each of the three books one of the cousins come to terms with their past and find the woman who bring them the love of their life.
At the end of the second book the Grandfather reveals his true reason for bringing the men back together which sets up the rather interesting premise for the third and final book. Far be it from me to reveal such a SPOILER to the next book. I just admit that I read peacefully along NEVER expecting this rather interesting twist in the storyline. Perhaps some of you did...and if so I SALUTE you!! Too often I am guilty of being a "Lazy Reader"!
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS SERIES, THOUGH I WOULD SUGGEST ONLY FOR MATURE READERS. SEXUAL SCENES ARE RATHER DELICIOUSLY EXPLICIT.
Nearing the end of a second of a three book series you pretty much know the storyline: Young, impressionable boys experience the horrible death of the beloved fourth family member, feel responsible, parents seem inexplicably absent in providing solace or counseling. We meet each of these three men fifteen years later when the grandfather they had all LOVED call them back to the scene of the accident by devious means. In each of the three books one of the cousins come to terms with their past and find the woman who bring them the love of their life.
At the end of the second book the Grandfather reveals his true reason for bringing the men back together which sets up the rather interesting premise for the third and final book. Far be it from me to reveal such a SPOILER to the next book. I just admit that I read peacefully along NEVER expecting this rather interesting twist in the storyline. Perhaps some of you did...and if so I SALUTE you!! Too often I am guilty of being a "Lazy Reader"!
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS SERIES, THOUGH I WOULD SUGGEST ONLY FOR MATURE READERS. SEXUAL SCENES ARE RATHER DELICIOUSLY EXPLICIT.
March 7, 2010
Read in 2008. Apparently I enjoyed it.
August 7, 2012
Had a hard time focusing on it at the beginning but it turned out to be pretty good, ghosts and all.
April 28, 2017
Leído el 22/02/2011
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