Bought for the Sicilian Billionaire's Bed: A Spicy Billionaire Boss Romance

By Sharon Kendrick

Book Overview

Things are certainly heating up in this passionate workplace romance by USA TODAY bestselling author Sharon Kendrick. Billionaire Salvatore Cardini has no intention of ever taking a wife. To send a message for all the world to see, he impulsively asks office cleaner Jessica Martin to accompany him to an event...as his pretend girlfriend What woman who has to work two jobs just to survive could say no to a glimpse of the glamorous lifestyle Salvatore leads? Certainly not Jessica It just makes her chemistry with her incredibly attractive and commanding boss all the more shocking. Just not quite a shocking as his proposal that they indulge in their dangerous desire From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373127898
• ISBN13: 9780373127894
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Harlequin Presents
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.2" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

Misleading title, great book though!

Jessica Martin a 23 year old office manager by day and janitorial office cleaner by night is asked by Salvatore Cardini, billionaire merchant banker to pose as his pretend girlfriend during a dinner party to ward off his friends from match making. Jessica is a very likable character for several reasons; first she is intelligent, hardworking and sassy. Even though she and Salvatore are poles apart in the financial stakes, he seems comfortable confiding in her about personal matters and appears to respect her opinion, and their camaraderie seems to have been built up by the author even before Salvatore ask for Jessica `s help. O f course she agrees to help him because she thinks it will be a bit of fun, something out of the ordinary of her humdrum well ordered life, not to mention she had a bit of a crush on him but over all keeps a level head about the temporary role she'll play in his life for one night. Salvatore is a handsome, rich, arrogant and very aware of his physical and monetary attraction to the opposite sex. He's tired of having to fend off fortunate huntresses and when who are with him only for superficial reasons. These two strike up their deal of a little play acting only to find that the physical attraction is mutual and very real on both sides, Jessica is reluctant at first to turn what was suppose to be a pretend relationship into the real thing, she lays out the pros and cons of getting involved with Salvatore, basically letting him know that although there is an attraction their, he is too use to getting whatever he wants from women, and that she does not want and will not play by his rules. Salvatore is intrigued of course by the novelty of having a woman he won't fall into his hands like a ripe peach, and being that its Jessica someone he has considered a confidant of sort up until recently, makes the chase of getting her into his bed all the more desirable. The story takes a few twists and turns for both characters, when a straightforward no strings attached affair becomes much more than either of them had bargained for. Salvatore discovers that he can't peg Jessica in the mold of fortune huntress/gold-digger because she doesn't give to figs about his money or how she can benefit from it and him. Jessica who is fearlessly independent, smart, naïve and some what innocent (but not a virgin) learns that love doesn't come in the calm and easy going form that she wanted, but rather messy and complicated but rewarding all the same once she willing to compromise and forgive a somewhat clueless but well meaning Salvatore. I liked this book a lot because for a change there was no melodramatic plot or damsel in distress, but on the reverse a hero in distress. Salvatore although an alpha-male was definitely likable because even though he had some major flaws when it came to how to be in a none superficial relationship, learned from his mistakes and attempted to rectify them. Also I felt like the author did a good job develop