The Curvy Girl: a possessive age gap romance

Vivienne Cole is thirty years old, brilliantly talented, and done being invisible. When she walks off the elevator of Harmon Tower in downtown Newark, New Jersey, for her interview at Mercer & Associates, she has one goal: to finally work somewhere that sees the work first. What she does not expect is for the most powerful man in the room to be conducting her interview himself - or for that man to change everything. Caulfield Mercer is forty-six. He built his firm from nothing - a longshoreman's son with a Cornell degree, a Wharton MBA, and a furious need to prove that talent is talent regardless of where it comes from. He is silver-templed, devastatingly composed, and the last person who should be thinking anything other than professional thoughts about a new hire. But he reads her forty-seven-page campaign document before she even walks in the door. And he knows, with a clarity that unsettles him, that this woman is going to change something. What follows is a slow, electric, inevitably complicated fall - two brilliant people who speak the same professional language, resist the pull between them with the discipline of adults who understand exactly what's at stake, and then stop resisting completely. But their love story is not unopposed. Rosalind Garza - Caulfield's senior partner and would-be love - wages a cold, elegant war against Vivienne through sabotage, leaked secrets, professional insinuation, and legal theft. Vivienne will be investigated, undermined, and publicly questioned. She fights back with the most devastating weapon available: the complete, undeniable record of her own excellence. Set against the gritty, resilient backdrop of Newark, New Jersey, The Curvy Girl is a story of ambition, betrayal, passion, and what happens when two people who have spent their whole lives building things begin to build something for each other. A full-bodied woman who refuses to shrink. A powerful older man who has never wanted anything as specifically as he wants her. Fifty chapters. One unforgettable love story.