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Summary: He Came to Take Her Business. Will he Take Her Instead?
Review: Shelly Baird is the director of the Babel Language Center in Cincinnati, Ohio and as the book opens she is at a party hosted by Keene International, an account she dearly wants to get. Across the room she locks eyes with a handsome stranger. Shelly is not the kind of girl to look away first. In fact she's not the kind of girl to look away at all. She's so caught up with the stranger that she bumps a waitress, who spills about a gallon of sangria on her.Quick as a wink the stranger is at her side. He introduces himself as Ross Tanner and offers to drive her home. When she see his Porsche, she wants to ride with the top down, to heck with the cold night air. At her place, sparks fly, but nothing happens. She does however tell him what she does for a living. Later we learn that her competition in the Executive language teaching business in town is the Elite Language Center, run by Charles Winston-Clark, or as Shelly refers to him, Chuck. Chuck, it , has done every underhanded thing he can think of to try and get Shelly's business, from annoying phone calls to spreading innuendos about her around town and still she's beaten the pants off him, business wise. So the boys at Chuck's head office have send a big gun to town to turn their business around. And that gun is none other than Ross Tanner, who wants to both ruin Shelly business, but have a relationship with her at the same time. And there you have the plot in a nutshell. Ms. Leone has written a story that had me thoroughly enthralled. Her characters are more than believable, they're likable and we want to know more about them, and isn't that what makes us read fiction, real to life characters. I'm giving this one five stars, because I just loved it.
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