The Billionaire’s Ex-Wife
The Jameson Brothers, #1
The Jameson Brothers, #1
by Leslie North
Publication date: October 19th 2017
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Publication date: October 19th 2017
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
BLURB
Sam Jameson always gets what he
wants and what he wants is his ex-wife.
Sam views the world in black and
white—a strong attitude that’s earned him billions in the business world and an
ex-wife in the real world. Sam wants is to choose his own future, but to do
this he must pass a test set out by his older brother, and CEO: onboard his
wayward brother, Eddie. Sam accepts the challenge but isn’t sure what to think
when he learns that the woman he’d love and left is part of the test too.
Trinity Jameson is a fixer. It
doesn’t matter if it’s ugly furniture or an ornery employee, Trinity has the
touch and she’s spent most of her life helping others achieve their best
potential. But when her ex-husband comes back to town to prove he’s got a
heart, Trinity makes a decision: She’s not going to fix his problems for him—no
matter what his smoldering blue eyes ask of her, she’s going to say “No.” She’s
determined that he’ll fix his own mess this time.
Before Sam landed in New York,
his goal was to leave the city just as fast. But when Trinity saunters into the
room looking better than ever, his desire begins to shift. He realizes that
what he really wants is what he can no longer have: Trinity. Sam has no trouble
stoking their physical fire, but hot sex isn’t going to be enough to heal the
hurt he’d caused long ago. Sam isn’t going to be dissuaded by her new found
emotional wall. He helped her build it, and now he’s going to knock it down.
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EXCERPT:
His
favorite suit was wrinkled. It didn’t matter if there was only one: the wrinkle
was there, leering up at him like a lopsided, mocking smile.
Sam
Jameson shook out his sleeve, but the minor imperfection remained. Minor, he
thought to himself in consolation. A wrinkle that wouldn’t smooth was the least
of his problems today; still, it lingered in the back of his mind as much as it
lingered on the otherwise crisp fabric of his suit.
Sam
distracted himself by gazing about the familiar waiting room of the New York
office. He missed the East Coast more than he could express, and he wasn’t an
expressive man by nature—but even he could appreciate the familiar, sanitized
smell of the office, the classic wooden furnishings, and the precision of the
New York City skyline just outside the high window. The L.A. office always
smelled like someone was secretly giving manicures in the staff kitchen, and
the West Coast skyline was…quirky. Slipshod. Obscured by a permanent haze and
decidedly not up to code.
L.A.
was to blame for Sam’s current predicament, of that he had no doubt. Who the
hell lodged a complaint about “annoying perfectionism” and took their business
elsewhere? Apparently L.A. clients did. Sam blamed the strange holistic culture
that had seized the West Coast—the culture of “mistakes are successes that
haven’t happened yet”, or whatever inane philosophy Californians liked to paste
on the bumpers of their hybridized cars—but his older brother William didn’t
see things the way he did. That was partly why Willian was CEO, and Sam was
COO, of Jameson Advertising Agency: it wasn’t just a matter of age, but
perspective…or so their father had once explained it.
If
only Sam could give William a momentary demotion and make him see things from
his point of view. This move to onboard Eddie was a mistake. More than that, it
was far below Sam’s paygrade—but even he wasn’t so callous as to say as much
out loud. He had learned early that when it came to family, talking in strictly
business terms wasn’t exactly smiled upon.
But
surely even William could see, from his lofty vantage as CEO, that bringing
Eddie any closer in the family business was a mistake. Their father had certainly
thought so. The youngest Jameson simply wasn’t cut out for more than wining and
dining clients.
Inviting
the family screw-up back into the fold didn’t seem like a wise move to Sam—but
who was he to protest it? He would get in, do the job to a more than acceptable
degree, and get out, the same as he always did. William wouldn’t be able to
argue with the results, and then Sam could get the hell back to L.A. and move
onto better things.
The
door opened and Sam rose, applying one last swipe to the wrinkle. He raised his
gaze, expecting to find Eddie’s lopsided grin and ridiculous eyebrows waggling
a greeting.
Instead,
it was his own ex-wife he found staring back at him.
“Trinity.”
He hated how out of practice he suddenly sounded saying her name out loud. Not
a day had passed since their separation that it didn’t enter his head on a
repeating loop, always in threes: Trinity. Trinity. Trinity. “What are you
doing here?”
His
ex-wife blinked her gorgeous doe eyes like he had her caught in a crosshairs.
Obviously his presence in the room wasn’t a surprise to her, but maybe seeing
an estranged spouse in the flesh shook her as much as it shook him.
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Author Info
Leslie North is the pen name for
a critically-acclaimed author of women's contemporary romance and fiction. The
anonymity gives her the perfect opportunity to paint with her full artistic
palette, especially in the romance and erotic fantasy genres.
The truth of the matter is she
loves her fictional persona, Leslie North, more than her normal, day-to-day persona!
Her bestselling books focus on strong characters and particularly women who
aren't afraid to challenge an alpha male. Inspired after years of travel, her
stories are set all over the world, from the tough streets of Russia to the
beautiful beaches of the middle east.
Leslie fell in love with romance
when she first picked up a scrappy, dog-eared romance book from her local
library. She began writing soon after and the rest, as they say, was history.
She now lives in a cozy cottage on the British coast and enjoys taking long
walks with her two Dalmatians, George and Fergie.
She LOVES reader feedback, and if
you have any comments, don't hesitate to contact her via e-mail:
leslie@leslienorthbooks.com.
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