(Harlequin Presents, No. 835) Could they ever work together? Chelsea had dreamed of becoming the first female partner at Shelby Harris and Associates the most respected architecture firm in St. Louis. She'd backed up her ambition with long hours and hard work—only to have the senior partners pass over her in favor of an outside No matter how outstanding his credentials were, Chelsea knew that taking orders from Nick Stanton would be next to impossible As long as he assumed she'd advanced her career by way of the bedroom, he wouldn't respect her—professionally or personally.
Author
Leigh Michaels is the pseudonym used by LeAnn Lemberger (b. July 27 in Iowa, United States), a popular United States writer of over 85 romance novels. She has published with Harlequin, Sourcebooks, Montlake Romance, Writers Digest Books, and Arcadia Publishing. She teaches romance writing at Gotham Writers' Workshop (www.writingclasses.com) She is the author of On Writing Romance. When Leigh was fifteen she wrote her first romance novel and burned it. She burned five more complete manuscripts before submitting to a publisher. The first submission was accepted by Harlequin, the only publisher to look at it, and was published in 1984. Michaels was born in Iowa, United States. She received a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, after three years of study and maintained a 3.93 grade-point average. She received the Robert Bliss Award as top-ranking senior in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and won a national William Randolph Hearst Award for feature-writing as an undergraduate. She is married to Michael W. Lemberger, an artist-photographer.
