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Hooked On You
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Hi, I’m Katie Edwards, 28 and single and living the life, that is until a few incidents occur which changes things. You’ll love Hooked On You and reading about my little adventure in finding true love and all that.
After leaving a leech of a boss, who enjoyed putting the personal in personal assistant, my best friend in the whole world, Joanna, tells me of a job vacancy as a PA at a sports magazine. So, I zip along, having to take the dreaded London tube, to the interview, and then later I meet Joanna at a bar in the middle of the city to discuss the chances of me actually getting the job.
Anyway, after a night out on the town, getting thoroughly smashed, I wake up the next morning still wearing my office clothes from the previous day and suffering a hangover of gigantic proportions. The phone rings. I’ve somehow managed to get the new job.
Hoo-freaking-ray!
Well, I’d have celebrated if the drum in my head stopped pounding.
Now I work for a Mr Liam Kennedy, a sports freak, and I don’t even like sports. I don’t go to the gym, I don’t go on skiing holidays and the only time I run is when I’m chasing a bus, even then I soon stop and wave for a taxi. My job is to make his life smoother as he travels around trying out new sports equipment, interviewing celebrity athletes, reporting new sport crazes, etc. I’m supposed to book his hotels, find future people or companies to interview, etc, all very boring really and typical PA stuff. I can do that with my eyes shut.
At the moment, Mr Kennedy is in Cumbria, Northern England. I arrive at the hotel and have a fortifying drink in the bar while I wait to meet my new boss. Only, when I do, well, what can I say, he’s simply sex on wheels, the kind that model for men’s clothing in catalogues. Yummy!! I always wanted to work for a sexy boss, but really, you need to be careful what you wish for, because sexy bosses are a hazard to the heart. Before I could say hello, I’d fallen in lust with him.
Great. Terrific start.
Mr Kennedy, Liam, is totally drool-worthy and as we have dinner I find that I’m mesmerised and alarmed by my attraction to him. How could I work in a professional manner when all I want to do is hop into his bed? Difficult dilemma, I grant you.
By the end of the week, and let me tell you what a week it was, after fishing, we went mountain hiking and then horse riding, and I was sure Liam was either trying to kill me or enter me in the next Olympic games. Anyway, I realised lust has turned into love. Brilliant.
Ever been in love with your boss?
It stinks. Don’t do it, ever!
When Liam travels to Cornwall to see his sick grandmother, I’m told to return home and wait for Liam to contact me. For a whole week I’m in my tiny flat near Kensington miserable and in a quandary. Should I keep working for Liam and hope my feelings will go away, or do I quit and forget him?
Liam calls the following morning, while Joanna and I are having a heart to heart talk. I’m thinking I need to quit working for Liam before I make a fool out of myself. He asks me to come to Cornwall and we’ll work from there while his Gran is sick. Should I go or should I stay?
I go.
Cornwall is lovely, Liam’s Mum is lovely, everything is lovely, but I’m sick with despair, as I know Liam is ‘the one’ for me. Does he feel the same way though?
What should I do? Help!
Kisses, Katie. xx
Hi, I’m Katie Edwards, 28 and single and living the life, that is until a few incidents occur which changes things. You’ll love Hooked On You and reading about my little adventure in finding true love and all that.
After leaving a leech of a boss, who enjoyed putting the personal in personal assistant, my best friend in the whole world, Joanna, tells me of a job vacancy as a PA at a sports magazine. So, I zip along, having to take the dreaded London tube, to the interview, and then later I meet Joanna at a bar in the middle of the city to discuss the chances of me actually getting the job.
Anyway, after a night out on the town, getting thoroughly smashed, I wake up the next morning still wearing my office clothes from the previous day and suffering a hangover of gigantic proportions. The phone rings. I’ve somehow managed to get the new job.
Hoo-freaking-ray!
Well, I’d have celebrated if the drum in my head stopped pounding.
Now I work for a Mr Liam Kennedy, a sports freak, and I don’t even like sports. I don’t go to the gym, I don’t go on skiing holidays and the only time I run is when I’m chasing a bus, even then I soon stop and wave for a taxi. My job is to make his life smoother as he travels around trying out new sports equipment, interviewing celebrity athletes, reporting new sport crazes, etc. I’m supposed to book his hotels, find future people or companies to interview, etc, all very boring really and typical PA stuff. I can do that with my eyes shut.
At the moment, Mr Kennedy is in Cumbria, Northern England. I arrive at the hotel and have a fortifying drink in the bar while I wait to meet my new boss. Only, when I do, well, what can I say, he’s simply sex on wheels, the kind that model for men’s clothing in catalogues. Yummy!! I always wanted to work for a sexy boss, but really, you need to be careful what you wish for, because sexy bosses are a hazard to the heart. Before I could say hello, I’d fallen in lust with him.
Great. Terrific start.
Mr Kennedy, Liam, is totally drool-worthy and as we have dinner I find that I’m mesmerised and alarmed by my attraction to him. How could I work in a professional manner when all I want to do is hop into his bed? Difficult dilemma, I grant you.
By the end of the week, and let me tell you what a week it was, after fishing, we went mountain hiking and then horse riding, and I was sure Liam was either trying to kill me or enter me in the next Olympic games. Anyway, I realised lust has turned into love. Brilliant.
Ever been in love with your boss?
It stinks. Don’t do it, ever!
When Liam travels to Cornwall to see his sick grandmother, I’m told to return home and wait for Liam to contact me. For a whole week I’m in my tiny flat near Kensington miserable and in a quandary. Should I keep working for Liam and hope my feelings will go away, or do I quit and forget him?
Liam calls the following morning, while Joanna and I are having a heart to heart talk. I’m thinking I need to quit working for Liam before I make a fool out of myself. He asks me to come to Cornwall and we’ll work from there while his Gran is sick. Should I go or should I stay?
I go.
Cornwall is lovely, Liam’s Mum is lovely, everything is lovely, but I’m sick with despair, as I know Liam is ‘the one’ for me. Does he feel the same way though?
What should I do? Help!
Kisses, Katie. xx
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First published January 1, 2010
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About the author
Anne Whitfield
17 books62 followersAnne Whitfield/Anne Brear is an Australian author. Born to Yorkshire parents, her passions, apart from writing, are reading, researching, genealogy, roaming historical sites, buying books and gardening. She is an author of historical women's fiction, contemporary romance and several short stories and writes under two names Anne Whitfield and Anne Brear.
For more about Anne and her books visit her website -http://annebrear.blogspot.com
I've had to make a new author page for my pen name Anne Brear, as my other author page wouldn't allow two names, sigh. So here's the new page. https://www.facebook.com/annebrearauthor
Published novels:
To Gain What's Lost, historical.
The House of Women, historical.
Kitty McKenzie, historical.
Kitty McKenzie’s Land, (sequel)
Long Distance Love, modern romance.
Broken Hero, WWII romance.
Hooked On You, romantic comedy.
New Beginnings: short story anthology.
What He Taught Her, short story.
My books can be purchased from Amazon.com or Amazon UK
For more about Anne and her books visit her website -http://annebrear.blogspot.com
I've had to make a new author page for my pen name Anne Brear, as my other author page wouldn't allow two names, sigh. So here's the new page. https://www.facebook.com/annebrearauthor
Published novels:
To Gain What's Lost, historical.
The House of Women, historical.
Kitty McKenzie, historical.
Kitty McKenzie’s Land, (sequel)
Long Distance Love, modern romance.
Broken Hero, WWII romance.
Hooked On You, romantic comedy.
New Beginnings: short story anthology.
What He Taught Her, short story.
My books can be purchased from Amazon.com or Amazon UK
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November 7, 2015
I don't normally read contemporary romances, not because I have anything against them, but mainly because I am so busy delving into historical novels and reference books for atmosphere, I rarely get the chance to read much else.
I did download one onto my E-Reader by author Anne Whitfield. Called 'Hooked on You', it's the story of every single twentysomething young woman approaching thirty who feels their life is going nowhere.
Katie is all those things and after telling her lecherous boss to shove it, she takes a job with a sports magazine reporter who needs a PA with no ties to travel with him and handle his paperwork.
Having never seen this man, Katie feels it's hardly relevant whether they will get on or not. The fact she has nothing to tie her to London, no life, no boyfriend and her best friend is trying to make up her mind whether to accept a proposal from Mr Perfect, is the ultimate confirmation Katie has nothing to look forward to. So expecting little from this new job but a chance to get away, Katie packs her case and heads up to Cumbria.
However Liam Kennedy is not nothing, he's a thirty something drop dead gorgeous hunk whom Katie is besotted with on sight. He is kind, thoughtful, and persuades her to go fishing, hiking and horse riding with him - hardly passtimes for a dyed-in-the-wool city girl, but she follows like a lamb just for the chance to stare at him. And enjoys it.
When a couple of close will-he-won't-he-kiss-me encounters go disastrously wrong - Katie makes up her mind. She cannot work with a man she has fallen for, especially when he seems quite indifferent to her - so she must leave her perftect job and return to London and her single life or risk turning into a lovesick old maid. However, when she takes steps to act on her decision, things change.
Anne Whitfield's story is beautifully written and her character, Katie has a wicked sense of humour, mostly disparaging herself. So although you feel sympathy for Katie's lack of self-esteem, you can laugh with her too as she's so lively and sharp witted with only a smidgeon of clumsiness.
I have read several of Anne's historical romances and loved them, but this novel suprised me with the author's versatility that puts us squarely in the present. A must read on a sun lounger with a cool drink beside you.
I did download one onto my E-Reader by author Anne Whitfield. Called 'Hooked on You', it's the story of every single twentysomething young woman approaching thirty who feels their life is going nowhere.
Katie is all those things and after telling her lecherous boss to shove it, she takes a job with a sports magazine reporter who needs a PA with no ties to travel with him and handle his paperwork.
Having never seen this man, Katie feels it's hardly relevant whether they will get on or not. The fact she has nothing to tie her to London, no life, no boyfriend and her best friend is trying to make up her mind whether to accept a proposal from Mr Perfect, is the ultimate confirmation Katie has nothing to look forward to. So expecting little from this new job but a chance to get away, Katie packs her case and heads up to Cumbria.
However Liam Kennedy is not nothing, he's a thirty something drop dead gorgeous hunk whom Katie is besotted with on sight. He is kind, thoughtful, and persuades her to go fishing, hiking and horse riding with him - hardly passtimes for a dyed-in-the-wool city girl, but she follows like a lamb just for the chance to stare at him. And enjoys it.
When a couple of close will-he-won't-he-kiss-me encounters go disastrously wrong - Katie makes up her mind. She cannot work with a man she has fallen for, especially when he seems quite indifferent to her - so she must leave her perftect job and return to London and her single life or risk turning into a lovesick old maid. However, when she takes steps to act on her decision, things change.
Anne Whitfield's story is beautifully written and her character, Katie has a wicked sense of humour, mostly disparaging herself. So although you feel sympathy for Katie's lack of self-esteem, you can laugh with her too as she's so lively and sharp witted with only a smidgeon of clumsiness.
I have read several of Anne's historical romances and loved them, but this novel suprised me with the author's versatility that puts us squarely in the present. A must read on a sun lounger with a cool drink beside you.
November 6, 2024
Would have been 5* but …..
There were too many typing/grammatical errors for me. Love AnneMarie’s ‘happy ever after’ books, but a good proof reader is required.
There were too many typing/grammatical errors for me. Love AnneMarie’s ‘happy ever after’ books, but a good proof reader is required.
August 27, 2018
Katie Edwards is 28, single, and living the life--or so she thinks. After leaving a groping boss, who enjoyed putting the personal in personal assistant, Katie lands a job as an assistant for Liam Kennedy, a sports freak. She hates sports, and not only is Liam a sports fanatic, but he's good at everything. The last thing Katie expects is to fall in love. But he's simply sex on legs. And the longer they're working together, the more she wants him. Working for a sexy man sounded fabulous, but she should have been careful what she wished for, because gorgeous employers are a hazard to the heart. Now, Katie's in lust and he thinks she's a dizzy chick who only knows how to party. How can she be professional when all she wants is to hop into his bed? Will he ever take her seriously enough to see how perfect they'd be for each other? Or is she doomed to be hooked on him forever?
May 7, 2010
Kate Edwards is approaching 30 and wants to put her party-loving existence behind her. But she finds it more difficult to convince others, particularly the man she falls from lust into love with, Liam Kennedy. I was hooked on this book and read it in a weekend. Anne is a talented writer and Hooked On You is a gem.
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