Half the fun of foreplay is the verbal jousting.

This is a contemporary millionaire romance starring Alex Gantry, who’s a very strong woman . Alex is an elite personal life coach who leaves the glitter of Hollywood to join her best friend Berkley Banks, whose high-profile new media marketing company is located in the Washington, D.C. area.

One thing Alex is hoping to leave behind is Brian Marks and their long-term relationship of convenience because they’re both workaholics and Alex has decided she wants more. Brian Marks is intent on changing her mind.

Maybe Washington, D.C. will change things. Because as good as Alex is at coaching professionals in how to balance work and their personal life, she’s been doing a bad job of it herself.

Enter the romantic hero, the somewhat younger and somewhat married environmentalist and greenpreneur T.J. Gale, one of Banks & Associates hottest new clients.

His (hopefully) soon-to-be ex-wife refuses to leave the picture, which wouldn’t be a problem if her notorious father weren’t nursing a personal grudge against his son-in-law.

Love and rejection, the male ego, the competition for power, and a woman whose life is at a turning point at the same moment she meets a man who’s going through the same thing.

Not all love begins smoothly.

And not everything is as it seems.

The Beltway is a land teeming with marshes, bald eagles, bunnies, a spectacular waterway paradise and wildlife Adventureland, whose human occupants are looking for power and ways to get it while trying to navigate the human appetites of lust, love, and greed without being drowned by their enemies in the Beltway swamps.

Prepare to be aroused.

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