Showing results for "Ambition" in Contemporary

I used to fantasize about meeting a masked madman who would love me endlessly and obsessively. He would look after me in a world where no one else did. He would manipulate all the strings that held up my life until I had exactly the one I wanted. And then one night, I met him. Only he wasn't the hero I always imagined he would be. When we left the forest together that night, I thought I'd escaped the villains relatively unscathed, but my true villain was the man whose arms I felt safest in.

Nash McGill ne m'apportera que des problèmes ! Je dois l'oublier et me concentrer sur l'obtention de mon diplôme à Harvard. Je ne vais pas ruiner mes chances de devenir avocate, pas même pour une paire d'yeux verts et un corps de Dieu grec. Ça non ! Sans compter que Nash a accepté le job de ses rêves et qu'il quittera la ville dans quelques semaines. Non, vraiment rien de bon ne pourra sortir d'un rapprochement entre nous... Alors pourquoi Nash hante-t-il toujours mes pensées ? L'amour sera-t-il plus fort que l'ambition ?

From Susie Orman Schnall, author of The Balance Project, comes a dual-timeline audiobook featuring a 1949 Miss Subways contestant and a modern-day advertising executive whose careers and lives intersect. In 1949, dutiful and ambitious Charlotte's dream of a career in advertising is shattered...

After being let go from her secretarial job, Kimberly is left with very few options. Although she struggles to feed her child, she is wary about working for someone with whom she once had a one-night stand. Against her better judgment, she eventually finds herself sitting in Hunter's office, with a big pay raise but also with a big problem. Hunter is more flirtatious than ever.