Author Description

Sometimes unimaginable endings are the Prelude of Great Beginnings.Elizabeth Wakefield is a closeted Romantic because she’s surrounded by men who are not. Discovering on Valentine’s Day the remnants of an intimate dinner, an empty engagement ring box, and her spouse having sex in her bed, drives Liz from her contaminated home to find other living arrangements. At the same time, at work, she fights for equal treatment against a glass ceiling weaponized by a prejudiced, and misogynistic Branch Manager.Soon Liz is embroiled in an acrimonious divorce, which could financially cripple her, while her office struggle is just as perilous. If she doesn’t reach her production goals before the end of the month, a career milestone will be denied her. She needs to close a big account immediately.Meanwhile, Prescott Hamilton, also a frustrated Romantic, yields to family pressure and proposes to their choice of a suitable wife, a mistake he soon regrets. To survive his loveless entrapment, he becomes an arrogant workaholic, browbeating his employees with unreasonable demands, to earn the reputation of someone no one wants to deal with.Typical of his management style, Prescott’s hotheaded firing of the Global Pension Account’s broker, who’s also his fiancée’s uncle, creates expected problems: his fiduciary exposure, and the instant need of a new broker. But the termination also triggers the eruption of the unrelated wrath of his future wife and her family, caused by his constant disagreement to a wedding date, an obligation he has dodged for three years but now, can no longer.But when Elizabeth Wakefield’s unsolicited investment mailing reaches his desk, despite Prescott Hamilton’s instruction to the contrary, it could be the solution to their business problems. However, the Global Pension Account might be too big for her assignment, while his biased intention is to make it a temporary transfer…that is, until they meet…and then their other problem becomes obvious…too.Corinne Julienn