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He’s arrogant, sexy and aloof. And now I have to write his book.<\/span><\/p>\n Jack Willis is every bit the start-up prodigy\u2014seriously smart, inventive, and totally sexy. With his incredible mind, extraordinary body, and a bank account with more zeroes than you can count, he would give the sharks from Shark Tank a run for their money. Everyone from Wall Street investors to drooling house wives wants a piece of him. Everyone except Libby Hanson, that is.<\/p>\n Libby Hanson is a crafty, curvy bombshell, more accustomed to macrame and crochet than fine dining and stealth engineering. She reads, she writes, she drinks wine with her cat…and she’s never even heard of Jack Willis until she lands an interview that will change her life forever.<\/p>\n Jack needs a book written\u2014and fast. His sexy new car is about to be released on the market, and a New York Times bestselling book would be the perfect marketing push to get his business to the next level. He could have any writer he wants: but he wants Libby. She’s feisty, gorgeous, and has a way with words like nobody else.<\/p>\n To write his book, Libby has to see everything he does. She gets thrust into a brand new world of A-list red carpet events, meetings with executives, and long nights in the workshop that grow increasingly intimate. But to write a bestseller, Libby needs more. Their connection is off the charts, but she’ll need to discover the real Jack\u2014the man behind the inventions, the man who’s steadily stealing her heart. Jack has secrets\u2014lots of them\u2014and Libby will do anything to get the scoop. With Jack’s true nature coming to the surface, Libby finds herself torn\u2014will she expose the man everyone is dying to get the dirt on? Or will she protect the man she is slowly but surely falling for?<\/p>\n Find\u00a0Start Me Up\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0GOODREADS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cYou have no idea what I do, do you?\u201d I asked her point blank. No point beating around the bush for much longer. And I was curious how she\u2019d react. Most people would stutter and immediately deny their lack of knowledge.<\/span><\/p>\n I wasn\u2019t surprised when Libby\u2019s reaction was different. Everything about her was different.<\/span><\/p>\n She laughed, the sound a little nervous and a little sheepish. \u201cI don\u2019t, I\u2019m sorry,\u201d she confessed. \u201cI don\u2019t like to come so unprepared, but I\u2019m afraid no one was very forthcoming with details about the job. Just that someone needed a ghostwriter.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cOnly you didn\u2019t know who that someone was,\u201d I leaned back, watching her.<\/span><\/p>\n I couldn\u2019t help it. There was something about her that captivated me. And I was the kind of man that paid attention when my gut told me to. I wouldn\u2019t have gotten as far as I had if I hadn\u2019t developed a pretty damn good set of instincts. And my instincts were saying that Libby Hanson deserved a closer look.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Two red spots had appeared on her cheeks. \u201cI\u2019m afraid to say I didn\u2019t know who you were when I walked in. And I still don\u2019t.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Even my name hadn\u2019t sparked any recognition. Either Libby had been living under a rock for the past few years or she just didn\u2019t travel in the kind of circles that discussed the latest tech inventions. Or the latest millionaire gossip mill. It was incredibly refreshing. Everyone else I had interviewed for the ghostwriter job had nearly fallen over themselves, quoting other articles or pieces that had been written about me, trying to impress me. And that was if they were men. If they were women, they tended to start batting their eyelashes and making unsubtle attempts to display various body parts. Even though it had been happening for years \u2013 ever since my name and photo were on the cover of Forbes \u2013 I still couldn\u2019t get used to women throwing themselves at me with such aggression. I\u2019d always been lucky with the ladies, but the fame and the money made it out of control. I didn\u2019t like fawning, I just found it annoying. And I really didn\u2019t want to work with someone who was going to try to flatter and butter me up, even if it was for the sake of the book. A book which I had been loathed to do in the first place. I hated talking about myself. I wanted to talk about the work, about what I wanted to accomplish, not which supermodel I was rumored to be dating or all the money I was making. My personal life was just that \u2013 personal. And I intended to keep that side of me out of the press and out of this book.<\/span><\/p>\n Which is why I found Libby\u2019s lack of information appealing, and I saw the opportunity to avoid the usual pitfalls I often found when being interviewed. She didn\u2019t know me, didn\u2019t know my reputation. She would be able to approach this book without any preconceived notions. Without any agenda. It could actually be about the work, and not about me.<\/span><\/p>\n For the first time the book didn\u2019t seem like the worst idea ever.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re hired,\u201d I told her.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Maggie Riley is a contemporary romance author whose interests include red wine, sushi, strolls through Central Park, and steamy men- both real and imaginary. 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