Legal Ease: Sutton Capital Series, Book
One
*by*
*Lori
Ryan*
BLURB:
Jack
Sutton needs a wife and he needs one now. Jack loved his mother, but she really
screwed him over when she set up her will. If Jack doesn’t have a wife by the
end of the week, he’ll lose control of the largest chunk of voting stock in his
company and will most likely lose his position as CEO as a result.
And
Jack’s Aunt Mabry is waiting in the wings to make sure that the terms of the
will are enforced. If he doesn’t find a wife, she’ll seize control of the stock
so she can install her own son at the helm and she couldn’t care less that her
son doesn’t want the job or that he probably won’t be any good at it.
Enter
Kelly Bradley, a twenty eight year old college graduate with a spot at Yale Law
School but no way to pay for it. Kelly and Jack’s eavesdropping secretary have
discovered Jack’s secret need for a wife and Kelly comes up with a plan to fix
both of their problems.
Just
when Jack needs her, Kelly breezes into his office, introduces herself to his
Aunt and cousin, and hands Jack an offer. She will marry him for a year so that
he can retain the stock that will keep him in control of Sutton Development if
he’ll pay for her to go to law school. Jack has no idea where his beautiful
savior came from or who she is but he’s willing to take a chance to save it
all.
The deal may have kept Jack in control at Sutton
Development but his private life quickly spirals out of control. Just when Jack
realizes that he wants more than a year with Kelly, his wealth puts her in
great danger and he is left scrambling to save her life and their future
together.
Excerpt:
Kelly swallowed hard as she heard Jack’s answer to her
‘proposal.’ She was relieved he was going along with it, but a tight ball of
nerves had been growing in her stomach since she walked in the room and she
felt that ball taking over her entire being.
Chad, with a look on his face that promised Jack would be
grilled for details later, excused himself to return to his office. Kelly
watched Jack out of the corner of her eye as she continued to talk to his aunt.
She had seen Jack Sutton on occasion coming in and out of the building when she’d
met Jennie for lunch and Jennie had told her he was handsome, but handsome
didn’t even begin to describe the man.
Jack was tall, at least six foot three or four inches. He
had dark brown hair that curled up at the edge of his collar. His eyes were a
rich, deep brown, almost mahogany, and his face had chiseled features with a
strong jaw. There wasn’t a damn thing about the man that didn’t sizzle.
He wore a suit, but even in that Kelly could see that his
body was hard and fit under it – his tall, lean form toned and strong. His
intense gaze made Kelly’s breath go ragged and she couldn’t imagine what it
would be like to be alone in the room with him if he had this kind of effect on
her with his aunt and cousin with them.
Jack sat on the edge of his desk, legs stretched out and
crossed at the ankles in front of him, arms crossed over his chest. He watched
her quietly while Kelly finished chatting with his aunt.
Kelly wrapped things up and ushered Aunt Mabry out the door
by four o’clock as she made excuses about Jack needing to get back to work. She
closed the door behind his aunt and turned to Jack. That’s when Kelly felt the
ground fall out from under her and her world tilt on its axis.
Suddenly, she faced Jack Sutton. Kelly found herself feeling
very shaken, to say the least. She looked up at Jack and realized that, in
essence, she had just waltzed into his office and proposed.
“I can’t believe I just did that,” Kelly began to pace
frantically. She wrapped her arms around her waist and circled the room.
“Oh God, oh God, oh God,” she said and she began to
feel like she might hyperventilate. She slid down onto the couch that sat along
the longest wall in Jack’s office and tried to breath but ended up taking in
huge gulps of air that felt as if they might choke her. For the first time
since she came up with her hair-brained scheme to get her hands on enough money
to attend Yale Law School by marrying Jack Sutton, the reality of what she had
just done hit her like a ton of bricks.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lori has had
a number of careers before embarking on her newest adventure of writing novels.
After graduating from the University of Connecticut School of Law, she
practiced law for three years, working primarily in the areas of utilities law
and intellectual property litigation.
More
recently, Lori owned and operated a dog training business in Austin, Texas,
where she specialized in aggression and became an expert in the field of dog
bite analysis. Lori sold her dog training business in 2013 and is now a full
time writer and mother of two.
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