Fire and Ice
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Sharing their body heat...
Super efficient P.A. Cally Hobbes burns with desire for her handsome boss, Innes McKenzie, but hides it beneath her cool, businesslike exterior. She knows he's not entirely immune to her either, despite their platonic working relationship.
But icy weather, broken central heating, and a dose of twenty four hour flu change everything. With Innes laid low in his frozen flat, Cally's golden chance finally arrives. What else can a girl do but climb into her boss's bed to warm up his chilly limbs with an enthusiastic application of TLC? And Innes' overnight recovery soon leads to a sizzling and more passionate kind of therapy...
10,000 words of delicious contemporary romance, plus a 700 word excerpt of the novel Lessons and Lovers.
A version of this story was originally published in The Mammoth Book of Hot Romance.
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Portia Da Costa is a SUNDAY TIMES best-selling British author of romance, erotic romance and erotica, whose short stories and novels have been published in the UK and elsewhere since 1991. She loves creating stories about sexy, likeable people in steamy, scandalous situations, and has written for various publishers over the years, including Black Lace, HQN, Spice Briefs, Samhain Publishing, Carina Press and a good many others. Though her best known titles are mainly contemporary erotic romance, she also enjoys writing super hot Victorian historical romance, and erotic paranormals. She's even turned her hand to a bit of erotic sci-fi and horror on occasion.
In 2012, her Black Lace contemporary erotic romance IN TOO DEEP, reached Number #5 in the Sunday Times paperback fiction chart, with only books by E L James and Sylvia Day outselling her!
When Portia isn't writing she's usually to be found loafing around watching the television or reading a wide variety of fiction and non fiction. She lives in the heart of West Yorkshire in the UK, with her long suffering husband and their four beloved cats: siblings Mork and Mindy, cranky but lovable Felix, and Monsieur Le Prince, a rescue cat from France.
