Board Stiff

By Jessica Jayne

John Dorsey’s life is good. He's the owner of Dorsey Construction, the youngest person on the board of directors for Advantage Insurance Company, lives on the beach, and he knows he can have any woman he wants. John’s got the world at his fingertips...except he’s yet to find a woman that stimulates both his body and mind.

Elizabeth Wright worked hard in a large Tampa law firm making a name for herself, but it came at the expense of her personal life. When Advantage Insurance Company offers her a job as corporate counsel, Elizabeth cannot turn it down. The thought that she can have a successful legal career and a life excites and intimidates her.

But when their worlds collide one day in the Advantage board room, neither Elizabeth nor John knows what’s hit them. All they know is they can’t stay away from each other.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Evernight Publishing
• Release date: Jul 15, 2013
• ISBN: 9781771304771

Jessica Jayne

Jessica is a born and raised small town Ohio girl, who moved to the Sunshine State after graduating from college. She graduated from college with a bachelor's degree in English. What college major could possibly be better than one that makes you read novels and write about them! Now she is thrilled to be able to share all the stories floating around in her head!Jessica loves to travel and travel often! She’s a huge sports fan, especially college football and the Ohio State Buckeyes! She’s a wine-making (and wine-tasting) aficionado. She loves all music. And nothing is better than sunset at the beach!In the journey of life, she also married a wonderful man and had three beautiful (and sometimes crazy) children. Life is always an adventure.

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Copyright© 2013 Jessica Jayne

ISBN: 978-1-77130-477-1

Cover Artist: Sour Cherry Designs

Editor: JS Cook

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This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, and places are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

DEDICATION

Always to my husband for his support and love.

To Jenika - Thanks so much for your thoughts and insight in helping me to not only name this book but also this series!  You rock!

BOARD STIFF

Taking Advantage, 1

Jessica Jayne

Copyright © 2013

Chapter One

Where’s today’s agenda? John Dorsey asked as he sat down in one of the many black leather chairs in the board room. He reached for the stainless steel coffee carafe and poured the dark brown liquid into his white porcelain coffee mug. Despite having had a cup of coffee on the way into the office, John usually needed about a carafe of coffee to make it through a board meeting day. He wasn’t used to sitting so many hours at a time. Heading up Dorsey Construction meant he was in the field assisting his construction managers with various projects. Sitting in a chair for six to eight hours listening to presentations on company matters, discussing and approving company budgets and sorting through the financials of Advantage Insurance Company made for long days. John was honored to be asked to sit on the board of directors a year ago. He was the youngest member of the board at thirty-five, and it was good for his business to have such a prestigious role with one of the Tampa Bay area’s best known companies. Luckily, the board only met once a quarter.

Here you go, Mr. Dorsey, Suzie McCormick said with a smile. She handed him a blue folder that he knew contained the day’s agenda and the most current quarter’s financials. All of the presentations could be seen on the individual iPads at each seat.

Thank you, Suzie, he said. He took the folder from her hands and set in front of him on the mahogany table. Suzie stood there smiling at him for a few seconds before turning around, flipping her long blonde hair over her shoulder and walking around the table to place the same blue folder at each seat. John watched as she finished up and left the board room for her desk in the executive suite, which was just outside of the boardroom.

Suzie was attractive, albeit a little on the skinny side, at least for John. Suzie was tall, probably 5’10" without heels, and slender. He preferred his women with a little meat on their bones. He loved women with curves. Women were supposed to be