By a Thread: A Grumpy Boss Romantic Comedy

Dominic was staring at me like he couldn't decide whether to chop me into pieces or pull my hair and French kiss me. <\/strong><\/p>

Dominic<\/em><\/strong><\/p>

I got her fired. Okay, so I'd had a bad day and took it out on a bystander in a pizza shop. But there's nothing innocent about Ally Morales. She proves that the first day at her new job... in my<\/em> office... after being hired by my<\/em> mother.<\/p>

So maybe her colorful, annoying, inexplicably alluring personality brightens up the magazine's offices that have felt like a prison for the past year. Maybe I like that she argues with me in front of the editorial staff. And maybe my after-hours fantasies are haunted by those brown eyes and that sharp tongue.<\/p>

But that doesn't mean that I'm going to be the next Russo man to take advantage of his position. I might be a second-generation son of a... fill in the blank, but I am not <\/em>my father.<\/p>

She's working herself to death at half a dozen dead-end jobs for some secret reason she doesn't feel like sharing with me. And I'm going to fix it all. Don't accuse me of caring. She's nothing more than a puzzle to be solved. If I can get her to quit, I can finally peel back all those layers. Then<\/em> I can go back to salvaging the family name and forget all about the dancing, beer-slinging brunette.<\/p>

Ally<\/em><\/strong><\/p>

Ha. Hold my beer, Grumpy Grump Face.<\/p>

Author's Note: <\/strong> A steamy, swoony workplace romantic comedy with a grumpy boss hero determined to save the day and a plucky heroine who is starting to wonder if there might actually be a beating heart beneath her boss's sexy vests.<\/em><\/p><\/P>"