When Naja Rodgers loses the dead end job she didn’t want, she accepts the invitation of a friend to attend First Fridays networking parties to find a business partner and move her entrepreneural thoughts from dream to reality.At a St. Louis First Fridays event, she finds a sultry and savvy business partner in the form of the handsome Russom King. Despite his good looks and their obvious attraction for each other, out of fear of possibly bringing bedroom drama to the boardroom, Naja vows never to mix business and personal relationships and to keep things strictly professional with Russ.Eventually, however, she falls for his charm and into his arms, and soon finds that bedroom to boardroom drama is the least of her worries.She finds that mixing business and personal relationships could cost her more than she ever imagined.
“The surest way to ruin a relationship is to marry the man you love.”
At least that’s what Vanella Morris believes; she’s seen the crazy things that marriages makes people do. So when Alton, her long-time boyfriend and love of her life, proposes, Vanella is faced with a dilemma: unable to convince Alton to skip the vows, does she walk away from happiness because of her fears or take a seemingly inevitable downward spiral from marital bliss like half of the marriages before her?
Counting Raindrops Through A Stained Glass Window by Cherlyn Michaels - September, 2005
