The Summer Deal (25 page)
Authors: Aleka Nakis
“Don’t let her pretty face fool you. She’s a remarkable and shrewd businessperson.”
“I don’t doubt that, but I was speaking more on a personal level. She has close ties to my family, yet she does not bother to contact me about a donation. I would have doubled any request she made.” Alexandros motioned to the waiter for drinks.
“Give her more credit. Besides, she knew you’d be here tonight if it were necessary. Don’t feel cheated. Your eyes will have their fill of her
at
the ball. She organized a very successful event this week, and you know that I am not very easy to please.”
Luca looked directly at Alexandros and leaned forward, placing his elbow on his knees. “To answer your next question, our relationship is strictly professional.”
“I know,” Alexandros said, nodding his head confidently.
“And how could you be sure your sources are correct? Are your ties that strong?”
“They are,” he replied as he leveled a focused gaze his friend’s way. “Now stop trying to make me dance to your tune, and tell me what you have been doing with yourself. How is that lovely young bride you keep locked away at a Boston university?”
Titles in Far Away Lands
By Aleka Nakis
Two months before her twenty-third birthday, Sapphyra Morelli pumps herself up with confidence and corporate bravado and storms into her husband’s conference room a changed woman. In spite of all her preparations, pride blinds her to the truth about the relationship she shares with Dante Morelli, and she cannot recognize that the life she craves is already her own. Dante headquarters his business in the shady alleys of Naples, lives in the picturesque seaside of Positano, and keeps his wife on the busy avenues of New York City. Sapphyra is the young wife who he has been responsible for and whom he’s held at arm’s length, waiting for her to mature into a woman who knows her own mind and heart. As obligated by the contract, Dante accepts her in the boardroom as an equal. Battling between the carnal need for his wife and the promise he’d made to her dying father to take care of her like he would his own sister, he decides he’s entitled to Sapphy—at least for the two months remaining in their marriage contract. Because of his insistence that Sapphy stand beside him as his wife, the plan to be a real business partner expands to winning her husband’s heart and body.
By Demi Alex
What would you endure to find the cure for the disease that killed your mother? Exposure to venomous snakes? Raging rapids without a life jacket? Drug lords who dab in sex trafficking? Would you relinquish control and trust your life in a dead man's hands? Tiffany Jensen, a young breast cancer researcher, confronts her greatest fear and flies on a plane to a foreign country alone. Venturing into the dangerous terrain of the Mayan jungle, she is willing to do just about anything for the cure. Antonio Francisco Fernandez, aka Agent AFFCROC, is open to only one possibility: getting Tiffany out of his territory and safely back to the States. Will his insistence deny her success, or struggling to find her way, will she come face to face with the eyes of the dead?
