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En brazos del jefe
Seduction on the agenda!
Victor Temple didn't want the complication of a lovesick secretary, so quiet, efficient Alice was the ideal assistant. He trusted her, paid her well, but was interested only in her performance between nine and five--not after hours!
Then he discovered the stormy affair in her past, and saw behind her businesslike disguise to the real, passionate Alice. Suddenly Victor's interest changed from professional to personal. Alice couldn't ignore the chemistry between them, but would sleeping with the boss lead to disaster, or marriage?
9 to 5
Getting down to business... in the boardroom and the bedroom!
Victor Temple didn't want the complication of a lovesick secretary, so quiet, efficient Alice was the ideal assistant. He trusted her, paid her well, but was interested only in her performance between nine and five--not after hours!
Then he discovered the stormy affair in her past, and saw behind her businesslike disguise to the real, passionate Alice. Suddenly Victor's interest changed from professional to personal. Alice couldn't ignore the chemistry between them, but would sleeping with the boss lead to disaster, or marriage?
9 to 5
Getting down to business... in the boardroom and the bedroom!
160 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1998
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Cathy Williams
1,313 books200 followersCathy Williams, born in Trinidad and Tobago, is a British author who has written romance novels for Mills & Boon since 1990. She lives in Chiswick, London, with her three daughters and continues to craft engaging, heartfelt love stories.
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May 7, 2019
Re Sleeping with the Boss - Cathy Williams 9 to 5 series take on the boss/assistant trope.
This one starts with our 30 yr old, very private and very acerbic h returning from her vacation in Portugal. The h has worked as the main assistant to the advertising agency owning H for several years now. She is happy to be back in her daily grind, because she considers herself to be too thin to be interesting and she has a sad romance in her past.
Several years before the story starts, the h took a job typing a manuscript for a local elderly landowner who lived near her village. The landowner had a son and the h embarked on a mad affair with the young man, whenever he could find the time to swing down from London.
The h thought it was true love, her employer's son regarded it as having a country bed warmer and the h ended up fleeing to London herself when she started talking marriage and the response was she wasn't socially registered or pedigreed enough.
Heart shattered and dreams destroyed, the h got herself a job with the typical Tyrannical Boss H and soon was running things better than an automated office machine. But when her boss drops the bombshell that he and the h will be staying the weekend in the stately home the h fled so many years before, the h's perfect office composure starts to crack.
This interesting icy facade breakup intrigues the H, he starts to probe into the h's personal life and the h has plenty of snarky comebacks to keep him off the scent. She reveals nothing of her past or the man she thought she was in love with and this creates a great deal of tension when the H and h actually arrive at the stately manor home.
It seems the elderly landowner died, the son inherited and them married a high society babe. It was a marital disaster and soon ended in divorce, but the son now wants to turn the family pile into a country hotel and the H is there to find the best way to discretely advertise the property.
The ex lover of the h is showing a renewed interest in picking up where they left off, but the h is pretty adamant that she isn't going there. Naturally the H feels the underlying tension, this seems to exacerbate his own interest and strangely enough, a wide streak of Possessive Employer jealousy.
The H makes it clear that there had better be NO SHENANIGANS between the h and her ex. If there is even a hint of the h seeing the client personally, he will fire her. Of course the h never explains that the client is her ex lover, she just lies and evades the H's questions.
The H starts pulling out some roofie kissing and gropey moves of his own and maneuvering the h into all kinds of semi-social situations. The h realizes that she is in love with the H when they finally wind up have a moment of purple passion bliss.
This dismays the h so much that she dragoons the ex-lover, who is now ready to propose to her roommate, into pretending to date her so that the H will fire her. The ex lover agrees, (with her roommate's consent,) and the H lives down to expectations.
When he sees the h and her ex at the theater one night, the next morning he has a royal hissy fit and boots her now unemployed hiney right out the door. The h has the standard HP mopey moment and turns down a lot of job offers to moon over the H.
He keeps calling her for missing files for some reason, even tho he claims he has hired a new blonde assistant. Then the H shows up at the h's house and the h decides to explain. She tells the H about her history with her ex, how the ex took one look at her roommate and fell into love and then she reveals that she has fallen in love with the H.
This relieves the H, because apparently he loves the h back and now that he has a male assistant to keep an eye on things, the H can take more time off to lurve the h up and practice enticing storks to visit for the rather low key, but presumably happy HEA.
This one was kinda weird. The tropes and the standard HP plot lines were there, but both the H and the h were so dispassionate, I was wondering if they realized that they were supposed to be having a romance.
It wasn't really terrible and CW followed the HP office romance rule book to a tee, but these two were just there on the page and there was very little intensity. It wasn't a bad story and the H wasn't really mean or really much of anything, so overall it was a standard day at the HP office and a fairly mediocre HPlandia outing.
This one starts with our 30 yr old, very private and very acerbic h returning from her vacation in Portugal. The h has worked as the main assistant to the advertising agency owning H for several years now. She is happy to be back in her daily grind, because she considers herself to be too thin to be interesting and she has a sad romance in her past.
Several years before the story starts, the h took a job typing a manuscript for a local elderly landowner who lived near her village. The landowner had a son and the h embarked on a mad affair with the young man, whenever he could find the time to swing down from London.
The h thought it was true love, her employer's son regarded it as having a country bed warmer and the h ended up fleeing to London herself when she started talking marriage and the response was she wasn't socially registered or pedigreed enough.
Heart shattered and dreams destroyed, the h got herself a job with the typical Tyrannical Boss H and soon was running things better than an automated office machine. But when her boss drops the bombshell that he and the h will be staying the weekend in the stately home the h fled so many years before, the h's perfect office composure starts to crack.
This interesting icy facade breakup intrigues the H, he starts to probe into the h's personal life and the h has plenty of snarky comebacks to keep him off the scent. She reveals nothing of her past or the man she thought she was in love with and this creates a great deal of tension when the H and h actually arrive at the stately manor home.
It seems the elderly landowner died, the son inherited and them married a high society babe. It was a marital disaster and soon ended in divorce, but the son now wants to turn the family pile into a country hotel and the H is there to find the best way to discretely advertise the property.
The ex lover of the h is showing a renewed interest in picking up where they left off, but the h is pretty adamant that she isn't going there. Naturally the H feels the underlying tension, this seems to exacerbate his own interest and strangely enough, a wide streak of Possessive Employer jealousy.
The H makes it clear that there had better be NO SHENANIGANS between the h and her ex. If there is even a hint of the h seeing the client personally, he will fire her. Of course the h never explains that the client is her ex lover, she just lies and evades the H's questions.
The H starts pulling out some roofie kissing and gropey moves of his own and maneuvering the h into all kinds of semi-social situations. The h realizes that she is in love with the H when they finally wind up have a moment of purple passion bliss.
This dismays the h so much that she dragoons the ex-lover, who is now ready to propose to her roommate, into pretending to date her so that the H will fire her. The ex lover agrees, (with her roommate's consent,) and the H lives down to expectations.
When he sees the h and her ex at the theater one night, the next morning he has a royal hissy fit and boots her now unemployed hiney right out the door. The h has the standard HP mopey moment and turns down a lot of job offers to moon over the H.
He keeps calling her for missing files for some reason, even tho he claims he has hired a new blonde assistant. Then the H shows up at the h's house and the h decides to explain. She tells the H about her history with her ex, how the ex took one look at her roommate and fell into love and then she reveals that she has fallen in love with the H.
This relieves the H, because apparently he loves the h back and now that he has a male assistant to keep an eye on things, the H can take more time off to lurve the h up and practice enticing storks to visit for the rather low key, but presumably happy HEA.
This one was kinda weird. The tropes and the standard HP plot lines were there, but both the H and the h were so dispassionate, I was wondering if they realized that they were supposed to be having a romance.
It wasn't really terrible and CW followed the HP office romance rule book to a tee, but these two were just there on the page and there was very little intensity. It wasn't a bad story and the H wasn't really mean or really much of anything, so overall it was a standard day at the HP office and a fairly mediocre HPlandia outing.
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February 28, 2020
The beginning was slow and uneventful with the latter part of book being most interesting and enjoyed to read.
July 28, 2016
el nombre en español está ni pintado, es un poco extraño cuando en una novela Rosa se ven abusos, discriminaciones, y violencia, y como todo lo que necesitas es alejarte de lo que está pasando y empezar de nuevo
October 16, 2022
Another from the friend passed along stack. And again is it vintage? but does it matter since it's an older harlequin and I don't want to make another shelf tag?
3+
Good chemistry and decent conflicts, including ones I feared would materialize didn't happen. The ending is way too abrupt, they journey around doing things while being intrigued by each other that is them becoming aware beyond boss and employee and falling in love maybe a bit too long, but the changes and obstacles that make life completely different and allow the love story are a bit different from the norm and believable.
A vacation rattles the heroine and wakes her up. She wants back to her routine--really she wants back to the hero but doesn't recognize that. The boss (hero) missed her efficient running of his office but then she returns, different, and he suddenly realizes she's more than efficient.
My worry was the heroine's roommate would become the brief "other woman the heroine is convinced catches the hero's eye" but no, she was written to snag the man-from-the-past and show that man wasn't a total cad but rather not right for the heroine. And that works well.
Returning to the scene of a young-heart heartbreak and revisiting the man who did it isn't a new angle, but it's done a bit differently here. She realizes she's not heartbroken still, and that it was a major bruise to her when young, but she's who allowed it to become so much more and worse in her mind and memory.
So she gets free of it and a comparison to what she really wants, the boss.
Meanwhile, boss gets to thaw from his compartments and hard-charging lifestyle and recognize he wants and needs a lot more from it.
Both of them change, wake up to each other and in themselves, recognize their own hang-ups are holding themselves back, and are better together going forward. Nice.
3+
Good chemistry and decent conflicts, including ones I feared would materialize didn't happen. The ending is way too abrupt, they journey around doing things while being intrigued by each other that is them becoming aware beyond boss and employee and falling in love maybe a bit too long, but the changes and obstacles that make life completely different and allow the love story are a bit different from the norm and believable.
A vacation rattles the heroine and wakes her up. She wants back to her routine--really she wants back to the hero but doesn't recognize that. The boss (hero) missed her efficient running of his office but then she returns, different, and he suddenly realizes she's more than efficient.
My worry was the heroine's roommate would become the brief "other woman the heroine is convinced catches the hero's eye" but no, she was written to snag the man-from-the-past and show that man wasn't a total cad but rather not right for the heroine. And that works well.
Returning to the scene of a young-heart heartbreak and revisiting the man who did it isn't a new angle, but it's done a bit differently here. She realizes she's not heartbroken still, and that it was a major bruise to her when young, but she's who allowed it to become so much more and worse in her mind and memory.
So she gets free of it and a comparison to what she really wants, the boss.
Meanwhile, boss gets to thaw from his compartments and hard-charging lifestyle and recognize he wants and needs a lot more from it.
Both of them change, wake up to each other and in themselves, recognize their own hang-ups are holding themselves back, and are better together going forward. Nice.
June 8, 2024
Why start an intimate scene only to bring James, the long past former lover, into it? This killed the intimate scenes cold.
And why refuse to tell Victoria upfront why she didn’t want to go with him to Highfield House?
Victor was right: she did do a lot of scheming and lying for not good reasons. I didn’t like that she wasn’t honest with him far earlier. There wasn’t much conflict, other than her own mental confusion and having James go with her to the theater just made it worse.
Also, given there was only one rather unromantic sex scene, the title didn’t go with the plot.
I did like Victor’s character but he could do a lot better than Alice.
And why refuse to tell Victoria upfront why she didn’t want to go with him to Highfield House?
Victor was right: she did do a lot of scheming and lying for not good reasons. I didn’t like that she wasn’t honest with him far earlier. There wasn’t much conflict, other than her own mental confusion and having James go with her to the theater just made it worse.
Also, given there was only one rather unromantic sex scene, the title didn’t go with the plot.
I did like Victor’s character but he could do a lot better than Alice.
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February 15, 2021
Annoying because it took too long for the Hero and Heroine to get together. On the flip side this could be a real life scenario..... it does happen
March 24, 2023
Me gusto mucho, como me reía por la insistencia que Victor mostraba para averiguar la vida de Alice y como esta se enojaba. Además tiene sus momentos tiernos, fue una buena lectura.
June 14, 2023
Es un romance muy raro.
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