BLURB:
Janet Maple is
convinced that her life could not get any worse: her stellar career at the DA’s
office ended with a lay off and her boyfriend of five years told her that he
wants to be just friends. When she lands a job at one of New York’s premier
boutique investment firms, Janet begins to hope that her luck is finally
turning for the better. Not only is she happy with her new paycheck, but things
also seem to be looking up on the personal front, as the company’s handsome
attorney expresses keen interest in Janet. However, her euphoria is
short-lived, as Janet soon discovers alarming facts about her new employer’s
business tactics. When her boss dismisses her suspicions as groundless, Janet
finds herself confiding to a cute IT engineer, Dean Snider. The closer she gets
to Dean, the more Janet is tempted to break her rule of not dating co-workers,
but what she doesn’t realize is that everything she knows about Dean, including
his occupation and even his name, is a lie.
Dennis Walker is
a top-notch white collar crime investigator who will stop at nothing to put
culprits away. When an opportunity for an undercover assignment at one of New
York’s premier boutique broker dealers comes up, Dennis jumps at the chance,
adopting a persona of geeky IT engineer, Dean Snider. While he may be an ace at
his job, years of experience fail him when Dennis meets Janet Maple and finds
himself torn between his professional obligations and his personal desires.
Will he have to choose between his feelings and duty, or will he find a way to
satisfy both?
Excerpt
Dennis Walker turned off his computer and poured himself a scotch. It was
eleven o’clock at night and he was dead tired. Irritated was more like it. His
eyes were beginning to hurt from his having sifted through tons of meaningless
information. Wiring the computers of Bostoff’s employees had seemed like a
brilliant move in the beginning, but so far the reports that Dennis had
received from the analysts at the Treasury had not produced any meaningful
information. At first Dennis blamed the ineptness of the analysts and chose to
bore through the data himself, but he too came up empty-handed. There were
hundreds of emails, but none of them had any meat in them: it was as though
employees of Bostoff Securities labored under the delusion that they were
working for a truly legitimate business, which, of course, could very well be
the truth when it came to the worker bees. Yet Dennis had specifically focused
on senior executives, and he was convinced that the top brass had to know what
was going on. But then again, he could have been mistaken. Bostoff’s trading
operation had several units or desks, as Bostoff referred to them, and Dennis
had wired the computers of all the desk heads, but every single one of them
came up clean. The desk heads reported to Jon Bostoff, and Jon Bostoff reported
to his father, Hank Bostoff. Dennis had expected the
father’s and son’s emails to be goldmines, but both Bostoffs were surprisingly
laconic in their conversations, which left Dennis with two possibilities:
either both Bostoffs were extremely cautious, or they had begun to suspect that
they computers had been wired. Dennis certainly hoped that the latter was not
the case.
In all of his investigations, he had never blown his cover, and he
certainly did not want to start now, especially given the fact that his
candidacy had been a long shot for the case in the first place. Which reminded
him: he needed to stop chatting up Bostoff’s female employees. This morning’s
kitchen chat with that recently hired cute lawyer, Janet Maple, had been a
glaring lapse in judgment, and yet Dennis could not help smiling at the memory.
The girl definitely liked him. She nearly let her oatmeal run over while
talking with him, and Dennis, ever the hero, saved Janet from embarrassment by
popping the microwave open just in time – well, he saved her from further
embarrassment, as the girl was already as red as a beet.
A
grin of self-satisfaction glinted on Dennis’s face. Sure, he could be vain when
it came to female attention, but it felt good to be admired, and, in his
defense, one never knew when a casual acquaintance could turn into a useful
ally. Given the results that Dennis had gotten from his surveillance of the
Bostoffs so far, he just might need a friendly inside source.
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Thanks for the new excerpt. Dennis sounds a bit cocky here. ..and quite the flirt!
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Fun! I can't wait to read this! Thanks for sharing!
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