After leaving the wrong man, Leah Griffin's not ready to look for the right one. All she wants is to survive the conference she's planning and spend some time with her best friend Kate Edwards. She was not expecting the conference services manager to be so tall, dark, and handsome—or so eager to please. It's Brandon Long's job to make Leah happy, but after a scorching interlude in her hotel room, neither can deny business has become pleasure. Smart, driven, and successful attorney Kate Edwards has spent her life making the right choices. But in contrast to those right choices, she's involved in a long distance, secret love affair with a coworker. Charles Dixon is a bad choice she can't help but make—over and over. A conference and a promotion bring Kate back to Pennsylvania, and suddenly, Dix wants far more than a few nights in random hotel rooms. He wants something permanent, and Kate has to figure out if sometimes a wrong choice isn't exactly what a woman needs.
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Megan Hart is the author of Broken, Deeper, Dirty, Stranger, and Tempted. Lauren Dane is the author of Giving Chase, Laid Bare, Taking Chase, Relentless, and Undercover. They are the coauthors of No Reservations.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very Hot, Well Written Erotic Romance,
By LeaF (Toronto, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Taking Care of Business (Black Lace) (Paperback)
I've read a number of Lauren Dane's novels and have always liked her voice, both in her paranormal, and contemporary work. Megan Hart is new to me, although I do have "Stranger", in my TBR. I found their combined voices in this novel to be wonderful. I got to know these characters easily and despite the strong personalities of the men and women I could sense their vulnerabilities and angst in taking tentative first steps in new relationships. I have to say the dry wit and clever verbal sparring, particularly between "Kate and Dix", and certainly some of the sarcasm, had me laughing out loud.
taking care of business The setting for this story is in a hotel in Philadelphia where Human Resources Director Leah Griffin has organized a conference for her company's managers. Leah's closest friend, Kate Edwards, a successful, driven attorney, is attending providing legal advice for the company. Leah and Kate are lifelong best friends who share their most intimate and naughty secrets without fear of reproach. They also instinctively know when it's time to back off and allow time for painful experiences to be internalized before they are spoken aloud. I really like books that have a theme involving friendship between women. I think it gives more reader insight into their personalities and depth to the characters. Leah has just ended an 18-month relationship with a rather immature, unpleasant and demanding man, Mike. She has been unhappy and dissatisfied with her personal life for a long time, unable to achieve sexual satisfaction during the majority of the intimate relationships of her life. I could feel her frustration welling up from the pages. Kate knows what her friend needs in a relationship, however Leah is unable to admit it to herself. Kate has been enjoying an exciting sporadic sexual liaison with Charles "Dix" Dixon, the head of the legal team for Leah's employer. Kate or "Katherine" as she is known in professional circles is brilliant, has a razor sharp tongue and is ruthless, a top-notch attorney. I loved this character; basically she takes no prisoners in the "boardroom". However, "Kate", has a vulnerable side with respect to her personal life having been burned at the stake early on in her career related to an intimate relationship with a colleague. Needless to say she is very reluctant with respect to entering into a more committed relationship with Dix. Leah, meets Conference Services Manager, Brandon Long, a mature younger man originally from Iowa, for whom she instantly feels an attraction. While she initially dismisses him, because of his youth she soon learns she was sorely mistaken and finds he has a strength of personality, integrity, and is sexually experienced. At the beginning of the book Leah is somewhat unpleasant with Brandon because of her relationship history and emotional conflicts, making it difficult for a reader to like her. However, as Brandon responds to Leah as a female dominant and her insecurities are laid bare, I at first empathized and then began to like her. Dix is a 40 something divorcée who is a supportive and involved father of two teenage girls. Dix is sexually obsessed with Kate, ruminating about her constantly. He wants a more committed relationship but she puts up innumerable roadblocks. Kate and Dix are both tough, evenly matched career attorneys, the fireworks between these two just blazed off the pages sexually and during intense arguments leading to even hotter sex. Kate's soft side is revealed in the bedroom under Dix's "very experienced" ministrations. I was struck by what I can only describe as intense verbal "foreplay" between both couples, the non-verbal nuances, and the intensity of their sexual encounters. The sensual prose, I thought was outstanding. We have to have the conflict between lovers and trust me there is a truckload that arises between Leah and Brandon, and Kate and Dix. I was really squirming wondering how the authors were going to resolve the issues between these lovers and bring them together, especially Leah and Brandon. However, at the end of the day, Ms. Hart and Ms. Dane did not disappoint. I will look forward to reading more of Megan Hart's and Lauren Dane's work.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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I can only say how much I loved this book. I love both of these authors and I started to read this book and tried to figure out who wrote what section. I couldn't tell, because this book just flowed so well. It was truly seamless. The two stories were intertwined so nicely, and I really wanted more.
Leah's breakup with her creepy dom boyfriend was such a turning point for her. Brandon came into her life at the perfect time. He showed her that she can be in control and still 'be in control'. Katherine's ability to compartmentalize her feelings for Dix was really amazing. Having the courage to let go and deal with her emotions, was her turning point. I enjoyed the interaction between the two friends, and the sex scenes were smokin' hot. Add in a little corporate drama, and a psychotic assistant, this makes for a wonderful book that you won't want to put down.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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Pretty good for erotic. The best part was watching a woman gently dominate a younger man in the bedroom.,
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STORY BRIEF:
Leah and Kate are best friends. Leah works in Human Resources for Allied Packaging. Kate is an outside lawyer who was hired to do some work for Allied. Leah and Kate are staying at a hotel where Allied is having meetings for four days. On the day Leah left for the hotel she kicked Mike out of her home. They had been playing dom/sub games with Mike as the dom, but he was selfish and arrogant about it, which was unsatisfying for Leah. Leah meets Brandon at the hotel who is in charge of conference services. She instructs Brandon how to set up the rooms and what food and beverages to supply. She tells him if he does a good job she may reward him. This is the beginning of their relationship in which Leah dominates Brandon in the bedroom. He has never been submissive before, but he enjoys letting her dominate. Leah is surprised by how much she enjoys it. Kate the outside legal counsel is having an affair with Dix, the in-house legal counsel for Allied. Dix has an ex-wife with two teenage girls. He is a devoted father. He is still linked with his ex-wife Eve, because when she wants a jar opened or something fixed, he goes to do it. Kate likes his time with his daughters but will not accept that he continues helping Eve when she should get someone else to do those things. REVIEWER'S OPINION: It was pretty good. The characters were good. It was a traditional romantic formula of couples getting together, having fights to break up, and then getting back together again. I wasn't thrilled with the reasons for the separations, but they were acceptable since the purpose of the book is for erotic scenes rather than story depth. The stories were a little different from normal which was good. I liked seeing Leah "gently" dominate Brandon, which was different from most male dominants that I've read about. I enjoyed watching Brandon honestly enjoy doing whatever she asked. DATA: Story length: 284 pages. Swearing language: strong. Sexual language: strong (including self pleasuring). Number of sex scenes: 14. Total number of sex scene pages: 66. Setting: current day Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Copyright: 2008. Genre: erotic contemporary romance.
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