Imperfect Match

Charles A. Hawthorne is not just a billionaire — in Cherrywood, he is close to royalty. Daisy Hazy Price is his longest-running assistant and, as the media likes to put it, his lifeline. She has spent four years equally hating and admiring how much of himself he pours into the company and the town.

So when the press starts a witch hunt over his bachelor status, right before he is due to take over the family business, Daisy does what she has always done: whatever her boss needs. In this case, marrying him on paper to make the story go away.

It is a clean arrangement until they start living together and sharing a room, and the words of the contract stop holding their shape. Four years of knowing him turns out to have missed something, and he is a disconcertingly convincing husband in private as well as in public.

The trouble is not that they do not fit. It is that they fit in every way but the one that matters: Charles's greatest fear is being a father, and Daisy's biggest dream is a family of her own. Then the lines on a pregnancy test turn pink.

Imperfect Match is the first book in Vikki Jay's Elixir Bachelor Billionaires — a marriage-of-convenience, boss-and-assistant contemporary romance with a small-town setting and an obstacle neither of them can negotiate their way out of.