Mind Games

By Monique McMorgan

Adelaide “Addy” Blanchard was the star marketing executive at New Orleans Tourisme. She had made her most ambitious promise yet: to make New Orleans as popular as Paris in world tourism. Addy was the oldest of seven psychic sisters. She had the power of telepathy and had used her special ability to test and tweaked her ad in a number of international test audiences. What she could not have predicted was a natural disaster that her arch nemesis, Michael Leblanc would use to try and derail her campaign.
Addy met Tom Randall, an exiled heir to a Texas oil fortune who had since made it in the oil and gas industry of Louisiana. Tom was smitten by Addy’s rare air and confidence and he had to have her. Addy normally had no time for romance but she’s desperate after discovering Leblanc’s plan and decided to take a chance and mix business with pleasure.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Monique McMorgan
• Release date: Feb 15, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370997497

Monique McMorgan

Biography Monique writes books and because you are reading this it makes perfect sense. She’s best known for writing steamy paranormal fiction romance including Mind Games, and the 5-part Timber Creek Wolf Novels. She enjoys apple pie, as so many of you do and any kind of puzzle game.  Monique has written contemporary romance under the name Amerine Graham and continues to write as Monique McMorgan. Monique is at home with her family, a large overgrown garden and a huge collection of books from almost every genre. facebook.com/Moniquemcmorgan Twitter- @McmorganMonique Instagram-mcmorgan.m

Book preview

Mind Games

Copyright 2016 Monique McMorgan

Published by Monique McMorgan at Smashwords

Smashwords Edition License Notes

This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your enjoyment only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

Table of Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

About Monique McMorgan

Other books by Monique McMorgan

Connect with Monique McMorgan

Keep Reading for an Exert

Chapter One

The men and women of NOLA (City Government of New Orleans, LA) looked around and at each other. Jeff Sands, the man – he was the man in every sense of the word, had the ear of the mayor and whatnot – from the Office of Economic Development, said, Leblanc made a big pitch. As you know Addy, we’re not in the position to disclose their plan.

He said you’ll have the full backing of one of the world’s most reputable ad agency and how there’ll be metrics, concrete data to show what the city got in return for the money. Bradley Ingleman Grant may be Big but it’s like Big Impressive Gonads and people will still be talking about it after two years, or the gestation period of elephants. Addy responded

Pretty much, although not in so many words, admitted Sands.

You know what, that’s not good enough. We are offering you the chance of a lifetime. It may never come around again, said Addy.

It is a bold idea. The message is a bit controversial, to say the least. It’ll be a hard sell to the mayor, the woman from the Mayor’s Office of Communications chimed in.

I’ll say it again, the copies in this presentation are not final by any means. As long as you recognize the potential of this idea, you just have to fly with it and let us fine tune the message. That’s what focus groups and test audiences are for. Addy observed the room, saw no objection, and went for the close, At the end of the day, Leblanc can get you a few upticks in the number of tourists. We, on the other hand, have the potential to increase the number many times. It’ll be like the Super Bowl at the Superdome every day. The only question is can you handle it. Classier than Mardi Gras, nobody wants Mardi Gras every day. The mayor has a couple of years left. If this works, he’ll be running for Governor of the great state of Louisiana. There’s a nice ring to it. Tell him that.

The idea was typical of Adelaide Blanchard. If it’s not going to make a splash, you had better add more water to it. Tourism is the biggest industry in the port city of New Orleans in terms of tax revenues. Unlike the other important industries like oil and gas and cargo and port transportation, tourism has virtually no growth limit. People can’t get enough of New Orleans, and that’s the truth. Mardi Gras and Bourbon Street go without saying, and jazz – Dixieland if you’re into the tradition or go big with the New Orleans big band jazz. And then there is the food. Even the gumbo and jambalaya in school cafeterias have a better oomph than those found in most restaurants in the rest of America. What else, the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans has just about the coolest name of all zoos. Not too many people know this, but Audubon means you can find at the zoo animals from Australia, Hindustan (also known as India), and Gabon (that’s next to Congo in Africa). When you have Audubon, all of the world’s most interesting animals are covered.

The French Quarter of New Orleans is the best of its kind in North America. The balconies are sexy beyond belief at night. The atmosphere blows people away. It is not like New York City where you either love it or hate it. It is more like Paris. Everybody loves Paris, right? It was true until recently. More than a few people are now scared of going to Paris after the recent bouts of terrorist attacks. So why not tell them to go to New Orleans instead?

That was the essence of Addy and Nawlins Tourisme’s pitch to NOLA for the ambitious promotion program for the city’s tourism. Big businesses and banks had been lined up for the funding. About $30 million dollars would be spent but Addy Blanchard, the star marketing executive at Nawlins Tourisme, was trying to convince them to triple that. She presented a TV commercial of sceneries in New Orleans that would pass for Paris, that would make people think of Paris, only to be revealed as New Orleans in the end, and that was not all – there was an additional quick scene of confusion and chaos and then the title: New Orleans is the new Paris… but without the terror.

Addy’s employer Nawlins Tourisme dealt only in things related to the tourism industry. They were competing against heavyweight international ad agencies for the driver seat of this campaign. More than 10 million visitors come to New OrlBlanchardeans every year, most of them Americans. Why shouldn’t tourists from China visit New Orleans rather than Paris? They can buy Louis Vuitton bags in New Orleans just the same. The Arc de Triomphe and Champs Elysees are bound to remind the Chinese of the Tiananmen tankman – not a happy memory – so if one would only reason with them, they could easily pick the St. Louis Cathedral and French Quarter of New Orleans over Paris. The Chinese love to gamble, so unlike Paris which is quite a distance from Monte Carlo, there are casinos within The Big Easy.

It was that easy to rack up a massive increase of tourists to New Orleans, according to Addy. The rest was out of her hand. The Government Office at 1340 Poydras where she made the presentation is a stocky black building that reminded Addy of her best copywriter, Ty Johnson, who was her only co-worker present. Nawlins Tourisme had their own graphics and production departments. There was not a hotshot