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The Tycoon's Temporary Baby by Emily McKay
5.0
Synopsis:
A story about Wendy Leland, who inherits a niece – baby Peyton – after her cousin sister's death, together with an imminent custody battle. She works as an executive assistant for Jonathon Bagdon – partner at FMJ – a workaholic who can’t think of what he would do without his very dependable assistant, Wendy. But Wendy has already decided that, to care for Peyton, and avoid a custody battle she either has to leave her beloved job and settle for the family business or whip up a husband rich enough to please her family (coz her family comes from old money). And Jonathon has the perfect solution – marriage – not in the strictest sense of the word, but a business arrangement.
Review:
I love office romances – yes, I am very cliched in that sense – and when the executive assistant is more important than the boss, I love it even more!
It took three friends to take FMJ to great heights – Ford, Matt, and Jonathon (they named it as such). Ford's story is there in [b:Affair with the Rebel Heiress|7469340|Affair with the Rebel Heiress|Emily McKay|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1471625808s/7469340.jpg|9553387], while Matt's story is in [b:The Billionaire's Bridal Bid|8713094|The Billionaire's Bridal Bid|Emily McKay|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1471628344s/8713094.jpg|13585968] (can't wait to read their stories).
'The second temp had accidentally sent R&D's latest prototype to Beijing instead of Bangalore.'
Ahh…when you read a city's name from your country in a book belonging to foreign shores, you are all smiles!
And, then -
'I can't cook worth a damn, but Claire could give McGyver a feast out of the barest cupboard.'
They mention one of your favorite shows – the new one though – I haven't watched the old one.
At first, Jonathon seems a lost cause.
'He swallowed again, forcing his gaze back up to her face, searching for something to say. Something other than "Lose the shirt".'
He didn’t realize for nine years how beautiful his assistant is, and suddenly he's besotted.
The book is a laugh riot, especially in terms of Jonathon's reactions to baby Peyton.
'If she was going to break into tears, why couldn't she have done it when Ford was here to deal with her? Ford had three sisters, a mother, a stepmother, a wife and a daughter. Surely all of those women in his life had better prepared him for dealing with this sort of thing.
'She had a Voldemort for President coffee mug in the bottom drawer, her Bose iPod dock, a tub of Just Fruit strawberries and in the very back, a bag of Ghirardelli chocolate caramels.'
(I have a new type of chocolate to try.)
A complete twist in the tale where emotions of the hero are in perspective, to keep him from falling in love, and with two other ladies (the hero's best friends' wives), warning her against it.
'The bedside lamp was on and in her other hand, she held a Kindle.'
And here I am, reading it on my Kindle, lying on my bed.
I loved Wendy's family. Moreover, it's always the woman who's in unrequited love, but, surprise, surprise, that was the case with the man here. I was a bit tired of heroines moping all the time, but Wendy, she is a breath of fresh air, with her cheeky lines (so much, that I decided that this one is for keeps, so I bought a paperback.)
Kudos to Emily McKay for this hilarious book, 'peppermint pop rocks' indeed.
But, the ending, I wanted a prolonged ending.
P.S. Not that the following books are related, but it will be better to understand the friendly relations if read in this particular order.
Messina Brothers' Duology, namely
[b:Baby on the Billionaire's Doorstep|2887655|Baby on the Billionaire's Doorstep (Messina Brothers, #1)|Emily McKay|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1471618190s/2887655.jpg|2913903], and
[b:Baby Benefits|5301008|Baby Benefits (Messina Brothers, #2)|Emily McKay|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1306674250s/5301008.jpg|5368445] (where Kitty from Affair with the Rebel Heiress has quite a role to play)
and then only read,
[b:Affair with the Rebel Heiress|7469340|Affair with the Rebel Heiress|Emily McKay|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1471625808s/7469340.jpg|9553387]
[b:The Billionaire's Bridal Bid|8713094|The Billionaire's Bridal Bid|Emily McKay|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1471628344s/8713094.jpg|13585968]
[b:The Tycoon's Temporary Baby|11535516|The Tycoon's Temporary Baby|Emily McKay|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1327988126s/11535516.jpg|16321934]
Originally posted on:
https://sassyshaina.wordpress.com/2018/09/07/the-tycoons-temporary-baby-by-emily-mckay/
A story about Wendy Leland, who inherits a niece – baby Peyton – after her cousin sister's death, together with an imminent custody battle. She works as an executive assistant for Jonathon Bagdon – partner at FMJ – a workaholic who can’t think of what he would do without his very dependable assistant, Wendy. But Wendy has already decided that, to care for Peyton, and avoid a custody battle she either has to leave her beloved job and settle for the family business or whip up a husband rich enough to please her family (coz her family comes from old money). And Jonathon has the perfect solution – marriage – not in the strictest sense of the word, but a business arrangement.
Review:
I love office romances – yes, I am very cliched in that sense – and when the executive assistant is more important than the boss, I love it even more!
It took three friends to take FMJ to great heights – Ford, Matt, and Jonathon (they named it as such). Ford's story is there in [b:Affair with the Rebel Heiress|7469340|Affair with the Rebel Heiress|Emily McKay|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1471625808s/7469340.jpg|9553387], while Matt's story is in [b:The Billionaire's Bridal Bid|8713094|The Billionaire's Bridal Bid|Emily McKay|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1471628344s/8713094.jpg|13585968] (can't wait to read their stories).
'The second temp had accidentally sent R&D's latest prototype to Beijing instead of Bangalore.'
Ahh…when you read a city's name from your country in a book belonging to foreign shores, you are all smiles!
And, then -
'I can't cook worth a damn, but Claire could give McGyver a feast out of the barest cupboard.'
They mention one of your favorite shows – the new one though – I haven't watched the old one.
At first, Jonathon seems a lost cause.
'He swallowed again, forcing his gaze back up to her face, searching for something to say. Something other than "Lose the shirt".'
He didn’t realize for nine years how beautiful his assistant is, and suddenly he's besotted.
The book is a laugh riot, especially in terms of Jonathon's reactions to baby Peyton.
'If she was going to break into tears, why couldn't she have done it when Ford was here to deal with her? Ford had three sisters, a mother, a stepmother, a wife and a daughter. Surely all of those women in his life had better prepared him for dealing with this sort of thing.
'She had a Voldemort for President coffee mug in the bottom drawer, her Bose iPod dock, a tub of Just Fruit strawberries and in the very back, a bag of Ghirardelli chocolate caramels.'
(I have a new type of chocolate to try.)
A complete twist in the tale where emotions of the hero are in perspective, to keep him from falling in love, and with two other ladies (the hero's best friends' wives), warning her against it.
'The bedside lamp was on and in her other hand, she held a Kindle.'
And here I am, reading it on my Kindle, lying on my bed.
I loved Wendy's family. Moreover, it's always the woman who's in unrequited love, but, surprise, surprise, that was the case with the man here. I was a bit tired of heroines moping all the time, but Wendy, she is a breath of fresh air, with her cheeky lines (so much, that I decided that this one is for keeps, so I bought a paperback.)
Kudos to Emily McKay for this hilarious book, 'peppermint pop rocks' indeed.
But, the ending, I wanted a prolonged ending.
P.S. Not that the following books are related, but it will be better to understand the friendly relations if read in this particular order.
Messina Brothers' Duology, namely
[b:Baby on the Billionaire's Doorstep|2887655|Baby on the Billionaire's Doorstep (Messina Brothers, #1)|Emily McKay|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1471618190s/2887655.jpg|2913903], and
[b:Baby Benefits|5301008|Baby Benefits (Messina Brothers, #2)|Emily McKay|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1306674250s/5301008.jpg|5368445] (where Kitty from Affair with the Rebel Heiress has quite a role to play)
and then only read,
[b:Affair with the Rebel Heiress|7469340|Affair with the Rebel Heiress|Emily McKay|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1471625808s/7469340.jpg|9553387]
[b:The Billionaire's Bridal Bid|8713094|The Billionaire's Bridal Bid|Emily McKay|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1471628344s/8713094.jpg|13585968]
[b:The Tycoon's Temporary Baby|11535516|The Tycoon's Temporary Baby|Emily McKay|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1327988126s/11535516.jpg|16321934]
Originally posted on:
https://sassyshaina.wordpress.com/2018/09/07/the-tycoons-temporary-baby-by-emily-mckay/