Toni Crenshaw is an up-and-coming corporate attorney for the multi-billion-dollar cosmetics company, Rayenata. Her ambition is to become their lead counsel, the youngest in the nation. Her plans are threatened when a geek research scientist asks for a sabbatical. This Baynard J. Starling is one of those brainiacs who graduates from M.I.T. at eighteen with multiple PhDs. He is the innovative power behind the company’s market leadership. However, the executives have kept that fact under wraps to avoid having to pay him more, much, much more of the billions he is generating. Now the naïve geek wants a year’s leave of absence, which would mean huge profit losses for Rayenata.
The panicked board tasks Toni with saving the situation. She discovers why Starling wants the sabbatical. He means to create a ‘love potion,’ a concoction of pheromones which work far better than any cologne to draw women to men with the word ‘yes’ on their lips. Starling, the man-child genius, could do it, create a cologne which seduces women. The Rayenata leadership wants that potion, and if they get it, Toni is promised the position of lead counsel. But Toni doesn’t want them to touch it at all, frightened of the consequences.
As Toni tries to navigate this serious conflict of interest, Starling changes in interesting ways, far too interesting, only increasing her professional turmoil. And of course, the genius Starling has plans of his own.
Heat Level: 3 out of 5
Genre: Romance
The panicked board tasks Toni with saving the situation. She discovers why Starling wants the sabbatical. He means to create a ‘love potion,’ a concoction of pheromones which work far better than any cologne to draw women to men with the word ‘yes’ on their lips. Starling, the man-child genius, could do it, create a cologne which seduces women. The Rayenata leadership wants that potion, and if they get it, Toni is promised the position of lead counsel. But Toni doesn’t want them to touch it at all, frightened of the consequences.
As Toni tries to navigate this serious conflict of interest, Starling changes in interesting ways, far too interesting, only increasing her professional turmoil. And of course, the genius Starling has plans of his own.
Heat Level: 3 out of 5
Genre: Romance
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