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Authors: Avery Gale
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Knights of the Boardroom
Book One
by Avery Gale
© Copyright July 2015 JK Publishing, Inc.
ISBN# 978-1-310-52247-5
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Table of Contents
Excerpt from Missionary Position
Excerpt from Tempted by Darkness
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Steel wins battles, but gold wins wars.”
Cressi Walker stepped into the opulent executive suite of Templar Enterprises Group and battled her almost overwhelming urge to turn right around and dash back out the door. The place oozed elegance and wealth, neither of those were things she was particularly comfortable with. It wasn’t that she’d been raised in poverty, but over the years she’d discovered one of the trappings of wealth was pretentiousness—a trait she’d never developed an appreciation for because she knew too well the secrets it could hold.
Letting her gaze move slowly around the room, Cressi wondered if their decorator had a serious case of Camalot-itis, because the large reception area looked more like a movie set than ground zero for one of the most diverse corporate conglomerates in the country. She’d done her homework and knew there were four owners of the company who apparently shared in the decision-making, despite the fact their financial shares weren’t equal—a detail that intrigued her. Lawton Hill, Brodie Walsh, Parker Daniels, and Tristan Harris met while they’d all been undergrads at Harvard, and from all accounts, they’d bonded quickly despite diverse backgrounds. The one thing they had in common was money—lots of money.
The media had given each of the owners their own unique label and Cressi had laughed when she’d read the nicknames. Lawton Hill was the Digital Knight—a nod to his work developing a profusion of computer software programs and games that had launched him into the spotlight before he’d even entered high school. Lawton’s parents were well-known and respected in the city as well, his father an investment banker who was regularly lauded for his efforts to hold others accountable when their practices crossed the line. Lawton’s mother was one of the city’s best-known cardiologists, but the interviews Cressi skimmed during her research spoke of a humble woman with a great sense of humor.
Brodie Walsh, Templar’s business strategist and legal eagle had been dubbed the Dark Knight—in recognition of his ability to negotiate contracts and broker deals others had sworn would never see the light of day. There wasn’t as much information available about Brodie’s background and somehow that made him even more interesting in Cressi’s view. She knew his father was a very successful attorney who had lost his wife while their only son was in college, but there wasn’t much else available, which intrigued her more than it probably should have.
Parker Daniels, the acting head of Templar’s Security Division was known as the Avenging Angel, journalists marveled at Daniels’ ability to
fix
threats to the company or its employees. According to recent gossip columns, Daniels was quietly expanding the security arm of the company to include private protection to high profile clients. Parker’s family had been involved in the Texas oil business from its beginning and the estimates of their personal wealth were staggering. Cressi had wondered as she’d read his bio what made Parker Daniels choose a career so divergent from his family business.
Tristan Harris was well known by all the various media outlets in the United States and the United Kingdom—reporters on both continents affectionately referred to him as Sir Lancelot. Harris’s American mother had traveled to England on a college trip to the UK, then met and married the wealthy Duke of Meerwood. Their love story was the stuff of romance novels and everything she’d read indicated their only son was their pride and joy despite his chosen profession. As the manager of
The Knight’s Club
he was also their Dom in Residence, Cressi didn’t have any idea what that meant, but if he was anything like the Doms in her romance novels he would probably have a stroke if he saw her plain white cotton panties.
When I get a good job, I swear Victoria isn’t going to keep a darned thing secret from me anymore.