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Dreaming of Dillon (The Dillon Series Book 1)
J.L.Heritage, author
Marcus Dillon is a formidable businessman whom has amassed much wealth and status after launching his successful business. After being betrayed and humiliated by his first and only love, he shy’s away from the dating scene, completely unable to trust and love again. His family live in Australia and only come over once a year for Christmas, spending his favourite holiday with him. \tSophie is an ordinary young woman working in the city trying to earn a living. She has a fantastic relationship with her father and, together, they are slowly helping one another get over the death of Sophie’s mother. Sophie has very much been on autopilot since her mothers death a few Christmases earlier and hasn’t felt able to allow herself to love after having her mother taken from her and having her heart broken. She despises her birthday and Christmas as they’re reminders of the beginning of the end of her mothers life. \tFor the past two years, Sophie has worked for Marcus Dillon as his Assistant PA. Her boss, Susan, is Marcus’ ‘true’ PA and has belittled Sophie’s existence at work since she started. Her best friend has urger her to quit, but then Sophie wouldn’t be able to see him every day. She wouldn’t be able to admire his features whilst gazing through his office windows at him, leading to heart fluttering dreams when sleep finally claims her each night. \tSophie isn’t daft, she knows someone like Marcus could have any girl on his arm and she’s…well, just Sophie. She’s average height with a real bottom and modest boobs. She adores food, speaks before thinking and is prone to forgetting important things as far as her work is concerned…like the Christmas party she’s supposed to be organising for the company and it’s 190 odd staff. You’d never describe her as athletic or gorgeous, she could be anyone; like any one of all us other real, regular women. \tWhilst she isn’t daft, she’s seen him looking at her. She’s seen him smile slightly at her awkwardness and chuckle at her verbal diarrhoea. If she’s honest with herself, there’s a teeny tiny part of her that thinks Marcus might just like her too. \tAfter having just two days to plan a Christmas party (with the helps of her two best friends) and have a meeting with Susan to brief her on it, she endures a horrendous day at work which also happens be to her mum’s birthday, adding to the stress creeping into her life. Susan rubbishes her plans and causes Sophie to finally snap and get the two years of frustrations she’s been dealing with off of her chest. Much to her surprise, Marcus is the one that comforts her, although she’s not able to tell him about her mum. He refuses to let her get the tube home, instead insisting that he and his driver take her. Caught up in his angst at seeing her so distressed after he’s harboured feelings for her for more than six months, his heart gets the better of him and he kisses her. He immediately regrets it, not wanting Sophie to think he’s taking advantage of her when she is clearly in such a sad place, but Sophie misreads it and thinks he regrets it because she’s…just Sophie. \tSophie tries to get over the embarrassment of realising she is not wanted romantically by her boss and plows herself into her work, supporting Marcus in the acquisition if some office space in New York. There are a few occasions where he looks like he might try and speak to her, but, much to her disappointment, it doesn’t seem to happen. \tSusan is taken ill and Marcus is forced to ask Sophie to step in and help his family settle into his relatively new home in Mayfair whilst he continues to work obscene hours on the New York project. She reluctantly agrees and goes to his house after a nightmare of a gym session with one of her best friends who has started seeing their other mutual friend and kept it from her. To add insult to injury, she’s denied access to the showers (as she’s not a member) and has to go to Marcus’ house to be shown how to access the security and keyless entry systems in her gym gear. \tSophie, horrified at turning up a hot sweaty mess, is greeted by Netty; Marcus’ housekeeper and cook. She immediately warms to her and Netty let’s slip that Marcus has mentioned her a few times at home. Once Marcus has come to greet her, Netty orchestrates a date and practically marches Sophie to one of the guest bathrooms to shower and change. After not being able to locate a hairdryer and dressed in only a towel, she bumps into Marcus on the landing of his exquisite home. She’s embarrassed and awkward and gets very upset at being in such a compromising position, that is, until he tells her something she never thought she’d hear…he has feelings for her. \tSophie and Marcus’ relationship is tested when his parents and sister come to stay but, against the odds, it blooms beautifully and she is finally able to let someone into her fragile heart. \tThe second half of the book documents their budding and, sometimes secret relationship growing by the day. Marcus is determined to teach Sophie how to embrace her mother’s memory and fall in love with Christmas again. Readers can get lost in their love and London at Christmas as Marcus takes her ice skating at the National History Museum, to Winter Wonderland, on a sightseeing tour of London after dark to see the lights, to afternoon tea at the Savoy which is decked out for the season and to a musical. \tSophie works tirelessly to win his parents over after an initial rocky start and throws an incredible Christmas party for the business. She’s rewarded with a promotion and everything seems to be getting back on track. \tSophie has a difficult Christmas, as always, due to the memory of her mothers illness and subsequent death. A gift from Marcus overwhelms her, as does her visit to the Garden of Remembrance on the anniversary of her death when she realises the effort her father has put in to her mothers tree…something she’s never been able to visit until now. \tThe book starts in November and ends in January, just before Sophie and Marcus head to New York for two weeks to finalise the New York project that they have been working on for over a year. The book’s ending is left open, Marcus ask’s her a question that she’s not sure how to answer. \tI’ve already finished writing a novella based on the two week New York trip. This shorter book concentrates on Marcus and Sophie’s growing relationship and the decision she has to make before returning home. \tThe book after that (Living the Dream with Dillon) will begin at the end of the novella and document the couples first 18 months together and has the potential to turn into a 4-5 book mini series. Expected titles in the series; Dreaming of Dillon Dreaming with Dillon (Novella based on NY business trip, editing in progress) Living the Dream with Dillon Becoming Mrs Dillon Dillon & Co. Contact Details e: JLHeritageBooks@gmail.com f: https://www.facebook.com/JLHeritageBooks/ w: https://jlheritagebooks.wordpress.com
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