Working for powerhouse shipping owner Mataeo North is a dream job for Temple Grahame. The jet-setting bachelor depends on her for everything. But there's just one thing: he has no idea that Temple's been in love with him since college. Or so she thinks…until the night her studly boss takes her in his arms and uncovers ... her passionate secret.
Mataeo doesn't make a move without consulting the savvy South Carolina beauty. Now, on the verge of closing a major deal, he needs Temple more than ever. And not just as his right-hand woman and best friend. What will it take to convince this sensual, independent woman that once they've crossed the line from friends to lovers, there's no turning back?
Romantic SuspenseParanormal RomanceRomanceErotic RomanceDark Romance & EroticaAfrican American InterestTeen & Young Adult
BIOGRAPHY AlTonya Washington has been a romance novelist for 15 years. She's the winner of two Romantic Times Magazine Reviewer's Choice Awards and a Romance Slam Jam EMMA. She lives in North Carolina and works as a Reference Librarian.
She began her writing career with BET's Arabesque imprint and writes traditionally... for Harlequin's Kimani Romance line. Under the pen name T. Onyx she crafts erotica and as Ally Fleming she pens Interracial Romantic Suspense. As Temple Carver, she creates Mainstream Romance Suspense Thrillers. Temple's debut title is: "Elite Deception."
When she's not writing, she can be found with a good book, a good movie, or a good movie based on a good book!read more