Billionaire Assignment, Book One: Unexpected Commonality

By D.C. Chagnon

Camille Stephenson gets the break of her short career when she’s asked to do a profile on the elusive and powerful billionaire CEO Robert Johns. While she thinks that she is as lucky as anyone can possibly be, her luck changes when she discovers that Johns is not a very enthusiastic interview subject—he avoids and evades her questions, and stops the interview in the middle, throwing Camille into a panic...and surprise.... when she and Johns discover an unexpected heat between them. Where will this brief satisfying dalliance lead them?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark Mulle
• Release date: Nov 17, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310202216

D.C. Chagnon

D.C. Chagnon was born in a quiet little town in Tennessee, and this was also the place where her love for the romantic and exciting was born. The author remembers days spent running on hillsides and swimming in brooks, and endless hours spent reading books that were her escape from the mundane. It was on a fateful summer day when the teenager wrote her first romantic short story as a submission for a local paper’s contest. Signed under a pseudonym, her story that told of summer and the sun, of a friendship gone beyond its limits, and heart-aching tragedy, garnered praise and the first prize for the young story-teller. She was eighteen, and on that day, she decided that she wanted to write for the rest of her life. The author is happily enjoying the married life with her husband of five years and their two young children. She is an avid traveler and has sought every opportunity to tour places halfway across the globe. While at home, the author makes it a full-time commitment to be a mom, but also spends a lot of her time coming up with new story material. She is often heard saying how difficult it is to balance being a wholesome house mom while writing erotic fiction on the side. While she outwardly claims her inspirations to be the likes of renowned novelists Lisa Kleypas and Anne Rice, she does admit to being a fan of the more current works such as those of the Fifty Shades of Grey author and the Twilight series. On her off times, she can also be seen reading the more wholesome works by Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams.

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Billionaire Assignment, Book One: Unexpected Commonality

By D.C.Chagnon

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Other Books in the Billionaire Assignment Trilogy

Billionaire Assignment, Book Two: Complications and Intrigue

Billionaire Assignment, Book Three: Decisions and Destiny

Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Other Books by This Author

Chapter One

Camille! You got a hot one. As she rushed winded into the magazine’s offices, coffee dripping from her hand, Camille looked up to see Amarie grinning after delivering her pronouncement.

A hot one? Camille raised an eyebrow at her coworker. Amarie nodded.

Word from the meeting was that Editorial picked you for the big centerpiece interview—some billionaire guy. Camille took a moment to slurp the spilled coffee from her fingers, moving to her desk quickly as Amarie followed her in wake. If it was true, what Amarie was saying, then it was a big deal indeed. Camille had been paying her dues for almost two years, working boring stories; a feature like the centerpiece interview for the next edition would solidify her status as a potential columnist. She had started out as an intern, before she had finished college, and when she’d received her degree in journalism and media studies, she’d been hired on as a staff writer; it was a good position to start with, and she was able to live on the money, but if she could make columnist, it would be a pay boost as well as a boost to her prestige.

Who told you? Camille set her things down on her desk and sat down, turning to face Amarie.

Giselle said that’s what she heard. Of course, it’s always possible she’s stirring the pot, but why would she lie about something like that? Camille shrugged in answer to the question. Giselle was usually pretty good about knowing things before they were going to happen—she eavesdropped, paid attention in her boss’s meetings. As the administrative assistant to the Features editor, she was in a position to get the juiciest office gossip.

Guess I’ll have to wait until they give it to me officially, Camille said before she shrugged and turned on her computer. It would be slow torture—waiting to hear from Ed Clancy, the section editor, whether or not she had gotten the assignment. As a staff writer, Camille was given her assignments; she didn’t get to pick and choose. Only columnists were trusted enough to pitch their own ideas at editorial, given the discretion to do their own research and come up with what would work for the magazine. Camille understood why the rules were there; the magazine had its own voice, its own concept of what its readership wanted. But she had chafed