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    All Work and No Play
    All Work and No Play
    All Work and No Play
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    All Work and No Play

    By Coleen Kwan

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    Anna Reynolds is stuck with the infuriating Giles St Clair. If she wants to meet her project deadline, she needs the highly sought after consultant’s help. But everything about Giles annoys Anna, from his posh English accent to the way every woman swoons at his feet.

    And the worst thing about Giles? She can’t help being attracted to him. Not that she’ll ever act on that attraction. A messy office affair would stall her career, and she’s not interested in being another notch on Giles’s bedpost.

    When a close encounter with Giles in a stationery cupboard forces the truth out, Anna forgets all her own rules. She and Giles need a circuit-breaker, and one steamy summer night together might be just what they both need.

    But is one night enough?

    19,000 words.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherColeen Kwan
    Release dateJul 23, 2015
    ISBN9781310647468
    All Work and No Play
    Author

    Coleen Kwan

    Coleen Kwan has been a bookworm all her life. At school English was her favourite subject, but for some reason she decided on a career in IT. After many years of programming, she wondered what else there was in life — and discovered writing. She loves writing contemporary romance and steampunk romance.Coleen lives in Sydney, Australia with her partner and two children. When she isn’t writing she enjoys avoiding housework, eating chocolate, and watching Criminal Minds.

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      Book preview

      All Work and No Play - Coleen Kwan

      ALL WORK AND NO PLAY

      (Serendipity Book 2)

      by

      Coleen Kwan

      Copyright 2015 Coleen Kwan

      Smashwords Edition

      Anna Reynolds is stuck with the infuriating Giles St Clair. If she wants to meet her project deadline, she needs the highly sought after consultant’s help. But everything about Giles annoys Anna, from his posh English accent to the way every woman swoons at his feet.

      And the worst thing about Giles? She can’t help being attracted to him. Not that she’ll ever act on that attraction. A messy office affair would stall her career, and she’s not interested in being another notch on Giles’s bedpost.

      When a close encounter in a stationery cupboard forces the truth out, Anna forgets all her own rules. She and Giles need a circuit-breaker, and one steamy summer night together might be just what they both need.

      But is one night enough?

      Serendipity Romance

      Fireworks At Midnight

      All Work and No Play

      If you would like more information on my book releases, please sign up for my newsletter at www.coleenkwan.com/p/contact-me.html.

      Copyright © 2015 by Coleen Kwan

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce, distribute, or transmit in any form or by any means.

      Smashwords Edition, Licence 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 use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      The author acknowledges the copyrighted or trademarked status and trademark owners of the following word marks mentioned in this work of fiction: Burberry, Vegemite, Neighbours, Diet Pepsi, Snickers, House & Garden.

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

      Cover design © 2015 Coleen Kwan

      Cover photo © Viorel Sima / Bigstock.com

      Table of Contents

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      About the Author

      Other Books by Coleen Kwan

      Chapter One

      It was the first working day of the new year, and Sydney, having shaken off her hangover from New Year’s Eve, was in the grip of a heatwave. The city sweltered under a relentless sun. Sensible people flocked to the beach. Or hung out by the pool. Or hunted for bargains at the department store sales.

      But Anna Reynolds was at work. Not just putting in an appearance, but hard at it, while half of the employees at FrogLeap were away on leave. She didn’t mind that; an empty office meant less noise and distractions, and that was important given the tight deadlines of her project.

      I need a coffee, a familiar male voice said behind her, accompanied by the sound of a chair being pushed back. Can I get you anything?

      Anna swivelled round to find herself eye-level with a lean pair of hips clad in elegant grey pants, a narrow leather belt emphasising the trim waist. As she realised she was staring at the man’s crotch, she hastily averted her gaze.

      Giles St Clair’s sky-blue eyes filled with amusement as if he knew exactly what she’d been doing. Anna?

      She didn’t blush easily, thank God. A cappuccino would be nice, she said.

      Last week he’d offered to get her coffee several times, and she’d always refused, but now she decided she should try treating him like any normal colleague, and besides she could really go for some caffeine to kickstart her brain. She reached for her handbag. Here, let me get you some money.

      No need. Coffee’s on me.

      Like hell it was. She pulled out her purse. I can’t let you do that.

      Ignoring the banknote she waved at him, he narrowed his eyes at her. Why not?

      If only she could blurt out the truth. Ever since Giles St Clair had sauntered into FrogLeap, preceded by his impressive reputation overseas, he’d managed to rub Anna up the wrong way. As the only female IT project managers in this male-dominated workplace, and one who had worked harder than most to get to that position, she might have objected to the way the red carpet was rolled out for Giles, but it wasn’t that that irritated her. Instead, it was the little things, each one petty on its own, but enough to put her teeth on edge.

      For a start, he was English and upperclass, and spoke in that toffy drawl that made him sound oh-so-superior. And he was rich, too. The kind of rich who could afford bespoke shirts and suits and hand-stitched shoes. He always appeared elegant, unflappable, in control. And he was stunningly handsome, of course, with an athletic frame and wavy chestnut hair and cool blue eyes and that maddening, slightly superior set to his face that seemed to say Yes, I know I’m good-looking, but please let’s not make a fuss.

      FrogLeap had hired him as a consultant at an exorbitant rate, and management were eager for him to spread his expertise wherever he could, and Giles didn’t hold back. He was happy to give his opinion whenever asked, including, in Anna’s case, when he wasn’t. He’d quizzed her on methodology in a way that had made her defensive and resentful. She might not be a highly sought-after consultant or be mobbed at tech conferences, but she knew her stuff.

      She’d gone out of her way to avoid him, but since last week they’d been working together, and in a half-empty office too.

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