Take Us There

The big boss is hot for teacher… and everyone knows it.Dominic Hurst is always up for a challenge. Step in as director of the world's second-largest theme park complex? No problem. Clean up the mess the previous director left behind? Sure. Have his seventeen-year-old daughter move in with him in a last-minute custody change? Bring it on.Face off with a town full of matchmakers? Uh… what?Oliver Jeffries is a man more than comfortable with his life. Teach teenagers to fall in love with literature? Absolutely. Tackle mindboggling tasks as head of the English department? Pass him the whip. Placate parents convinced their perfect children can do no wrong? Pfft. Child's play.Agree to a friends-with-benefits arrangement with the most talked-about man in Joyville? Uhm… maybe in secret?When Dom and Oliver meet, there's no question that friendship won't be enough. But the citizens of Joyville don't know the meaning of "private," and dating the director puts Oliver firmly in the spotlight.With the whole town watching and laying bets, is their fledgling relationship doomed to fail? Louisa Masters started reading romance much earlier than her mother thought she should. While other teenagers were sneaking out of the house, Louisa was sneaking romance novels in and working out how to read them without being discovered. She's spent most of her life feeling sorry for people who don't read, convinced that books are the solution to every problem.As an adult, she feeds her addiction in every spare second, only occasionally tearing herself away to do things like answer the phone and pay bills. She spent years trying to build a "sensible" career, working in bookstores, recruitment, resource management, administration, and as a travel agent, before finally conceding defeat and devoting herself to the world of romance novels.Louisa has a long list of places first discovered in books that she wants to visit, and every so often she overcomes her loathing of jet lag and takes a trip that charges her imagination. She lives in Melbourne, Australia, where she whines about the weather for most of the year while secretly admitting she'll probably never move.