The Billionaire and His Boss by Patricia Kay
The Billionaire and His Boss
By Patricia Kay
Silhouette SE
January 2008
ISBN: 978-0373281237
Think of all the romance readers who’ve sacrificed sleep to finish stories of alpha-male tycoons tamed by the love of good women. That story arc works. Nevertheless, Houston’s own Pat Kay upends it in THE BILLIONAIRE AND HIS BOSS. Her recent Special Edition tweaks time-honored genre conventions but will keep readers up past bedtime.
Alex Hunt stands to inherit billions. He likes money only because it offers him chances to do good. To show solidarity with his half-brothers and save the charitable foundation he runs, Alex agrees to an outlandish request made by his father after a brush with death: like his halfbrothers, Alex will hide his identity and fortune to seek a bride. What’s more, he’ll marry and start a family within a year.
P.J. Kinkaid supervises the distribution center for the company Alex’s father founded. When Alex reports for work as a stock picker, she makes him as a pretender and fears he’s been sent from the corporate office to spy on her operation. She resolves to keep an eye on him.
Meanwhile, Alex can’t keep his eyes off his boss, P.J. She’s friendly with her workers, fair, and very much in charge. Unfortunately for him, she doesn’t believe in dating anyone at work. When he finally overcomes that dating block, he finds she’s dead-set against marriage.
P.J. has many more secrets than Alex does, and the billionaire struggles mightily to win his bride. I won’t tell you how Alex fights for P.J., but I’ll confide that the ending of THE BILLIONAIRE AND HIS BOSS presented this reader with what she hopes for from every romance novel: a good cry.
-reviewed by Pat O’Dea Rosen
