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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date July 11, 2022.

The first time I met Merrick Crawford was during my job interview.

Well, technically, I’d met him twenty minutes earlier when he’d barged into a fitting room a few doors down from my appointment.

I yelled. He yelled. After an argument while standing in my bra, I proceeded to smash the door into the gorgeous jerk, trying to yank it shut.

As you might imagine, I was freaked out when I discovered that the rude guy was my potential new boss.

Yet he didn’t seem to recognize me. Or so I thought… Until we wound up bickering again during my interview and he told me to go sniff my armpit.

Okay, so maybe I hadn’t exactly been changing when he walked in on me. In my defense, I’d been stuck on a hot train for two hours and wanted to make sure I didn’t smell.

I obviously didn’t expect to get the job. But somehow an invitation to a second interview arrived in my inbox.

Before I left, I asked to see Merrick. I needed to know why I was even in consideration after our disastrous start.

Turned out, Merrick only wanted to hire me because I was the least competent candidate. It seemed his board was making him fill the position, against his wishes.

I didn’t really want to work in a place where my boss expected me to fail. But I figured maybe I’d enjoy proving him wrong. It was a little thing I dubbed the boss project.

What I wasn’t prepared for was that there would be other things I’d enjoy doing to Merrick Crawford.

Getting involved with the boss wasn’t the smartest choice.

But you know what they say about choices: Some we regret, some we are proud of. I just had no idea where this one was going to land.

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REVIEW:THE BOSS PROJECT by Vi Keeland is a contemporary, adult, stand alone, erotic, romance story line focusing on thirty –two year old investment trader/business owner Merrick Crawford, and therapist Dr. Everly ‘Evie’ Vaughn.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Merrick and Evie) THE BOSS PROJECT follows therapist Dr. Evie Vaughn as she is hired to be the in-house counsellor for Crawford Investments. Evie’s last job ended when she discovered her boss aka her fiance sleeping with her best friend aka maid of honor just hours before they were to be wed. Having posted the video of the wedding and the affair, Evie finds herself on the hunt for new employment having made a name for herself in the social media but a day of disasters finds Evie facing down her potential boss, a man who believes Evie is all wrong for the job. A second interview guarantees Dr. Everly Vaughn a position at Crawford Investments, a position that brings Evie up close and personal with the man with whom she will fall in love but all is not well in Merrick Crawford’s life, as he struggles to let go of a past that is both heart breaking and painful for our story line heroine. What ensues is the building but forbidden romance and relationship between Evie and Merrick, and the potential fall-out as Merrick continues to struggles with demons from the past, pushing our heroine out of his life.

Merrick Crawford is a powerful man in the world of investor trading but his reputation precedes his successful business acumen, and oft-times his employees and traders suffer in the work place for their boss’ demands-enter Dr. Everly Vaughn, the new in-house therapist, who is hoping to aid the employees through difficult times. Merrick continues to battle the guilt, grief and heart break of loss and betrayal but doesn’t believe in therapy, and doesn’t believe in our story line heroine.

The relationship between Evie and Merrick begins as a professional relationship wherein Evie is hired by our story line hero. From the outset, Evie struggles with Merrick’s less than accepting attitude towards our story line heroine, an attitude that will slowly reveal demons from the past. Evie knows that to get in involved with Merrick could be the end of her job and possibly her career but the hearts wants something is knows it cannot have. Still struggling with the betrayal by her ex-fiance and former best friend, Evie finds herself having to face what happened and why. The $ex scenes are intimate, provocative and passionate, without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

We are introduced to Merrick’s best friend and investor Will; the head of HR Joan Davis; as well as Merrick’s grandmother Kitty; and Evie’s sister Greer.

THE BOSS PROJECT is a story of betrayal, heart break; acceptance and love. The premise is captivating and entertaining ; the characters are energetic, strong, determined and charismatic although vaguely familiar to several characters in the television show Billions™; the romance is seductive, intense and dramatic.

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Reviewed by Sandy

Vi Keeland is a native New Yorker with three children that occupy most of her free time, which she complains about often, but wouldn’t change for the world. She is an attorney and a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, & USA Today Best Selling author. Over the last three years, ten of her titles have appeared on the USA Today Bestseller lists and three on the New York Times Bestseller lists.

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