Dr. Aubrey Prentice has a dilemma—what do with billionaire Ian Henshaw III.
First, he was her therapy patient. Then, her boyfriend. And now, her fiancé. But what, exactly, has Dr. Aubrey Prentice gotten herself into? Ian Henshaw III is the brooding and dark heir apparent to Henshaw Industries, who won't let anything go, including Aubrey.
He was meant to be tamed by her in his psychotherapy sessions, but unable to fight his calculated pursuit of her, she has found herself in a game of cat and mouse that can only end one way: absolute servitude to a man who can give her the world.
Excerpt:
Ian rolled over to face Aubrey. He had something to say.
"Move in with me, Aubrey," He murmured, his voice bringing Aubrey back to her senses. "I want to wake up to this...to you...every day."
The dress, the dinner, the necklace, the lovemaking. It all led to this moment.
What had Aubrey committed to by accepting these gifts?
"I'll think about it," she said. It was the only thing she had uttered tonight that was even close to denying Ian anything.
And as Ian pulled her close, the warmth of his chest was so comforting, Aubrey forgot herself again.
"I'm serious," Ian breathed into her ear.
"Sounds...perfect," she murmured. Her cozy response masked the apprehension she suddenly felt.
"Perfect indeed," Ian replied. "Prepare to be adored, Aubrey. I intend to worship every inch of you."
But Aubrey didn't hear that. Instead, Hope's eerie voice was in her head. "Be careful, Aubrey. You don't have any idea of what you are getting into."
Summary:
As Aubrey Prentice makes love to her husband, Foster, she realizes how unhappy she is with her life.
Dr. Aubrey Prentice has opened a private psychiatry practice in her hometown of Orchard Park, New York. The only problem? She has no patients. Enter Ian Henshaw Senior, manufacturing magnate of Henshaw Industries, whom Aubrey meets at the Orchard Park Country Club.
An old-fashioned company man, Ian Henshaw Senior feels like his manufacturing empire is suffering due to the immoral values of his male employees. He proposes a plan of mental health sessions to evaluate his workers and pinpoint their failings to improve their productivity.
Dr. Aubrey Henshaw, realizing this is the end of her financial worries, accepts Ian Senior's proposal.
Enter patient zero: Ian Henshaw III, heir apparent to Henshaw Industries. A bad-boy rebel who dares Aubrey to tame him, he falls in love with Aubrey and seduces her during their psychotherapy sessions.
In the meantime, Aubrey's practice is thriving with her new business from Henshaw Industries. She compiles her case studies and plans to publish a book on her findings.
As she becomes more involved in analyzing her patients, however, her book is becoming more personal. She fantasizes about what it would be like to marry Ian.
Ian continues to aggressively pursue Aubrey in their psychotherapy sessions after divorcing his wife, Hope. She resists, but starts playing the same games Ian has started.
Aubrey enlists her assistant Jennifer to help her organize the psychotherapy files into a provocative narrative of steamy stories. Jennifer becomes personally involved in the process when she starts dating one of the patients.
As a married woman, Aubrey continues to put off Ian's romantic advances until she is free from her husband, Foster, who has turned out to be stalking other women. Now her book has become one of self-evaluation.
Free to date Ian, she gets in over her head with the passive/aggressive billionaire who pursues her to the end of the book until she ultimately rejects him. In the end, Aubrey walks away with a bestselling book based on her own personal experiences with the very men she has been treating.
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