Bargaining Chips

Middle-aged Romeo Trent McKelvennyas having a hard time finding Ms. Right in Santa Claraas nightclubs, and itas hands off at work. Ambivalent about settling down, Trent thinks heas in control of his one-night stands, and his emotions. Jovana Dills proves him wrong on both counts. A recent hire from a competing Silicon Valley computer chip firm locked in trade-secret litigation with SemiC, Jovana seems immune to Trentas charms, but he canat shake the well-built blonde, bending his workplace romance principles and falling hard for her. He soon learns of Joas history with cocaine abuse, her jail time, and her theft of her former firmas design blueprints for a revolutionary biosubmersible chip design. But even in an era of industrial espionage, he never dreamed that within a month of meeting Jo, head be strapped in a chair, wondering whether he would die for her.