Colton Echols is a strong, muscular and gentle cleaner from Atlanta. His life is going nowhere until he meets Jade Dickerson, a beautiful, slender woman with a passion for cookery. Colton takes an instant disliking to the controlling and predatory ways she learnt during her years in the city.
However, an ex-girlfriend of Colton's, tries to vandalize Jade, Colton springs to the rescue. Colton begins to notice that Jade is actually rather loving at heart. But, the pressure of Jade's job as a scout leaves her blind to Colton's affection for her.
Finally, when rude actress, Terrie Prescott, threatens to come between them, Jade has to act fast. But will they ever find the sensational love that they deserve?
When bubbly Emerson Kachi Smith starts working for the handsome Lucas Hendrix, she quickly discovers there's something hot and untamed behind his cold exterior...
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When bubbly Emerson Kachi Smith is offered a job as the personal assistant to the cold and handsome Lucas Hendrix, she's left wondering why. After all, she has no credentials to speak of, and working for a paranoid billionaire CEO who's impossible to please is far from easy. But a few weeks into her job, she begins to realize that she can't judge a book by its cover. Left alone to discover the mystery behind Lucas's cold exterior and to tame her uncontrollable desire to comfort him, she learns they have a lot more in common than she ever thought possible. Could their two lonely hearts share the same dream for happiness?
[[word count: 150,000-200,000 words]]
Cover designed by April Alforque
Former title 'Coffee And Papers'