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Sizzle: Where the Boardroom Meets the Bedroom
“[A] battle fraught with...the dirtiest of tricks...the stuff that destroys marriages, people, lives.... Sizzle through the summer with Sizzle.”—The Salem News
It’s the glitzy 1980s. Fortunes are being made and lost—and made again. Wall Street is on a roll. One after another, corporations are being gobbled up by rapacious raiders. And now Sizzle, the most glamorous and profitable magazine in the world is up for grabs. British media mogul and corporate raider Harrison Kendricks has set his sights on this publishing plum, in which the reputations of the rich, the famous, and the beautiful can be built or destroyed with a paragraph or a photograph. He has never before lost a hostile takeover. But then he has never before been in competition with Marietta Wylford, the brilliant and beautiful CEO of Wylford Enterprises. She needs only Sizzle to crown the business empire she has built with nothing but her own genius and ambition, and she is determined to let no one stand in her way. Not even the mysterious and dangerous Harrison Kendricks.
Marietta Wylford was not always at the top of New York’s business and social worlds. Born into poverty, she was only sixteen when her browbeaten mother died of overwork, and her brutal, alcoholic father abandoned her. But if fate had thrust her into such desperate circumstances, it had also given her the means to escape a brilliant mind, a beautiful face, and a figure most women would die for. She used them all to blaze her way to the top. One by one, she had always been able to foil those who dared try to topple her from her pinnacle.
But Harrison Kendricks is different. They are two of a kind. Creatures who have fashioned themselves in the image of their own wants and needs. Neither has ever lost a battle in the boardroom—or the bedroom. To defeat him, she will have to uncover the one vile secret that will utterly destroy him. And she will do anything to get it—even at the risk of breaking her own heart.
Sizzle—a novel of breathtaking power and ambition, set against the jet-setting worlds of Paris, the Riviera, San Francisco, and Manhattan’s elite!
It’s the glitzy 1980s. Fortunes are being made and lost—and made again. Wall Street is on a roll. One after another, corporations are being gobbled up by rapacious raiders. And now Sizzle, the most glamorous and profitable magazine in the world is up for grabs. British media mogul and corporate raider Harrison Kendricks has set his sights on this publishing plum, in which the reputations of the rich, the famous, and the beautiful can be built or destroyed with a paragraph or a photograph. He has never before lost a hostile takeover. But then he has never before been in competition with Marietta Wylford, the brilliant and beautiful CEO of Wylford Enterprises. She needs only Sizzle to crown the business empire she has built with nothing but her own genius and ambition, and she is determined to let no one stand in her way. Not even the mysterious and dangerous Harrison Kendricks.
Marietta Wylford was not always at the top of New York’s business and social worlds. Born into poverty, she was only sixteen when her browbeaten mother died of overwork, and her brutal, alcoholic father abandoned her. But if fate had thrust her into such desperate circumstances, it had also given her the means to escape a brilliant mind, a beautiful face, and a figure most women would die for. She used them all to blaze her way to the top. One by one, she had always been able to foil those who dared try to topple her from her pinnacle.
But Harrison Kendricks is different. They are two of a kind. Creatures who have fashioned themselves in the image of their own wants and needs. Neither has ever lost a battle in the boardroom—or the bedroom. To defeat him, she will have to uncover the one vile secret that will utterly destroy him. And she will do anything to get it—even at the risk of breaking her own heart.
Sizzle—a novel of breathtaking power and ambition, set against the jet-setting worlds of Paris, the Riviera, San Francisco, and Manhattan’s elite!
325 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 8, 2016
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About the author
Barbara Brett
6 books3 followersBarbara Brett’s lively and colorful publishing career includes stints as a proofreader for Esquire magazine and as the meat-and-poultry editor of a trade magazine. For several years she was the editor of, consecutively, True Romance and True Confessions magazines, the nation’s leading confession publications. During this time, she began writing mainstream novels, and after the publication of two of them, Between Two Eternities and Love After Hours, she was named vice president and publisher of Thomas Bouregy & Company, where she oversaw the company’s hardcover fiction line for libraries, Avalon Books, and its softcover reprints of the classics, Airmont Classics. In 1993 she left to establish her own publishing company, devoted to hardcover inspirational nonfiction. The first book she published was the international bestseller Where Angels Walk by Joan Wester Anderson, which was on The New York Times bestseller list for over a year and has sold over two million copies.
Time constraints forced Barbara to give up her writing after first joining Bouregy and later running her own company. No longer willing to make that sacrifice, she has now closed her company and is returning to what has always been her first love—writing. Converting Between Two Eternities, which was originally published by Avon Books, into an e-book is her first labor of love. She plans to follow it with her other novels, and she hopes that you will watch for the e-book debuts of Love After Hours, Sizzle, and Promises to Keep,which she wrote with her husband, Hy Brett. In the meantime and in-between time, she is hard at work on a new novel.
Time constraints forced Barbara to give up her writing after first joining Bouregy and later running her own company. No longer willing to make that sacrifice, she has now closed her company and is returning to what has always been her first love—writing. Converting Between Two Eternities, which was originally published by Avon Books, into an e-book is her first labor of love. She plans to follow it with her other novels, and she hopes that you will watch for the e-book debuts of Love After Hours, Sizzle, and Promises to Keep,which she wrote with her husband, Hy Brett. In the meantime and in-between time, she is hard at work on a new novel.
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July 15, 2016
Sizzle is a juicy, fun, sexy read. It’s perfect for summer (or any season). Barbara Brett does a terrific job of creating the eighties Manhattan setting for this story of intrigue in the publishing world. Marietta is my new favorite heroine!
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