Pride and Joy — Cathie Linz

A sexy voice emanating from a flashy robot... a shiny black Porsche parked in her reserved spot--and then the appearance of Dr. Marc Pride, laser expert extraordinaire. Who did he think he was? His name said it all. Elegantly handsome, expensively educated, everything about him had more than a touch of class--and know-it-all arrogance. Debra Knowles had earned every bit of her own feisty brand of expertise. But how long could the senior buyer for FuturTech, San Francisco's leading electronics firm, keep her wits, her cool, and her hard-won job? She was assigned to Marc's project--developing a microchip that would send data as fast as the speed of light--but what of the fiery impulses of a far more intimate nature that threatened to send them both spinning wildly out of control?