Linda Rebane has achieved her life-long goal of running the family business, Rebane Renovations. She's about to begin a major project-when the old structure mysteriously burns. She doesn't let the catastrophe slow her down, however, not when new business drops into her lap. Corporate wolf Mike Stratford, architect and president of WIN Construction, needs an old apartment building rehabbed. Because this won't be his usual new-from-the-ground-up undertaking, he chooses Rebane to do the work. In the background lurks his idea of corporate expansion-taking over her company, with or without her approval. Neither expects the scorching attraction between them in the middle of a freezing Minnesota winter. Do opposites really attract? She with her lively sense of humor and habit of making decisions on the fly, and he with his serious need for extensive planning before action. She's thinking fling. He's thinking forever. Neither expects the villains either, who want both her vacant property and his old building. That turns out to be the least of their worries, however. When Linda discovers Mike's ulterior motive, how can she even consider a tomorrow with him-much less forever?
Hi, I'm Ann Macela, and I write enchanting, smart, and sensual contemporary romance and contemporary light paranormal romance. Sometimes with a touch of humor, sometimes with a little sorrow, always with passion and emotion. My latest books are a two-book contemporary romance series, Wolves in Business. Wolf in Jester's Clothing and Wolf on Thin Ice tell the story of two brothers who find their true loves where they least expect them. Warning: These are NOT shapeshifters, but alpha businessmen. Like the Magic Series, it's best to read them in order. My award-winning Magic Series is about a group of people who can cast spells to help them with their everyday jobs. Wouldn't you like to have an ability that would help you type faster, make accurate change, fix the plumbing, or grow flowers and vegetables? Or whatever it is that you do? And these people, who call themselves practitioners, are guaranteed to find their soul mates. Ready or not, and whether or not they want one at that particular moment. As the series progresses, the magic gets more complicated and so do the relationships. Included in the series now are the last two stories, never before published. Windswept won the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Romance, Small Press, 2008, and several other awards. Writing this standalone contemporary with a historical twist took me back to my first love, the study of history, and it definitely shows off my Texas roots. There's a terrible secret in the papers of the Windswept Plantation . . . I'm a native Gulf Coast Texan, now living in The Frozen North of Chicagoland. I started life reading mysteries, then sci-fi and fantasy. When I discovered romances, I saw a way to combine all the aspects of books that I liked into my own stories. And what a welcome difference from writing computer manuals--my old job and which has no magic about it at all. Let me know what you think of my stories. Contact me either at ann@AnnMacela.com or AnnMacela@msn.com P.S. Those of you interested in how my magic works, check out the article, A Theory of Magic, on my website.
