Author: Linda Cunningham
Publisher: Omnific Publishing
Release date: March 2013
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Age Group: Adult
Tour organized by: AToMR Tours
A smart, sexy entrepreneur. A wealthy, arrogant ladies’ man
set on purchasing her company. And a hotbed of chemistry neither one of them
anticipated.
Aiden Stewart is just going through the motions of running
the family business, a mega communications company snapping up all the
competition. His trip to a tiny New England town to negotiate the purchase of
ChatDotCom is nothing more than an interruption in his plans for his next
female conquest. The last thing he expects is for Chat’s CEO M. Jordan
Fitzgerald to be a woman who takes his breath away.
Jordan is focused on business, not romance. She’s got too
much at stake, working to protect Chat’s employees, as well as making sure her
family is taken care of. Falling in love is not part of the business plan, but
resisting the man she really should not want is proving impossible.
When a rival wants to take over Chat too, Jordan struggles
to keep her personal life from affecting the business deal. With secrets that
could ruin everything, she has to decide if she can balance business with
pleasure.
Linda Cunningham introduces hot new characters in her second
Small Town novel, a steamy office romance set in idyllic Clark’s Corner,
Vermont.
Corporate Affair by Linda Cunningham starts off with us
meeting Aiden Stewart. He is a bit arrogant as well as a bit of a playboy. He
knows he is good looking and he very much enjoys the female attention he gets,
so he tends to juggle a few girls at a time to keep him company. He doesn’t
seem to take his job helping run his father’s company too seriously, as making
sure there is a woman keeping his bed warm is more important.
Aiden drives down to a very small town in Virginia to see
about merging a local company, ChatDotCom, with his father’s. Excepting to have
a meeting with an older man, Aiden is surprised when the CEO of ChatDotCom, M.
Jordan Fitzgerald, is actually an attractive young woman.
Jordan Fitzgerald is now taking over the company from her
dear friend and mentor, whose health is failing more and more everyday. She
doesn’t think she has the time for any kind of romance with the many new responsibilities
on her plate, along with taking care of all of her family’s needs.
I really enjoyed reading Linda Cunningham’s writing style in
comparison to some the newer romance writers that are out. Her story takes you
into both character’s point-of-view, but not to the where you feel you’re in
the character’s head. You don’t get to read their thoughts, like you do in some
other books. I felt like this kept the characters a little bit more mysterious
to me.
You honestly feel more like you’re sitting there watching
the story play out in front of you, rather than feeling like you are in the
story. You get a good idea as to what Aiden and Jordan are feeling, but you are
not fully aware of what they are thinking.
Another difference in Linda Cunningham’s writing style is that
she gives you the full picture of what is going on around the characters. She
gives full details about each room they are in all the way to what each
character looks like and what they are wearing. A lot of newer authors forget
to include these details that help give us a better picture of the author’s
vision.
For example, when Aiden is walking around the town; you get
a good grasp of what he is seeing as the houses and landscape are fully
described to you. You can get a really great mental image of what Aiden is
seeing as he takes in this small little town he has found himself in.
Obviously the dialog is the most important part of the book,
but you just can’t be in too big of a hurry to get through the story that you
don’t give the reader the best visual details you can.
Corporate Affair was a genuinely sweet love story that I
thoroughly enjoyed reading. There is some stop and go in getting their
relationship started, more so on Jordan’s side than Aiden’s, but it really does
happen rather quickly in my opinion. I can’t imagine any woman CEO not being
cautious over a relationship with a man who is trying to buy the company she
works for.
Aiden more than proves himself to her though as Jordan seems
to face more than one bad situation at the hands of Aiden and his father’s
competitor (who is also trying to buy ChatDotCom).
The only problem I had was how quickly Aiden seemed to know
he was in love with Jordan, when just the night before meeting her he was in
bed with another woman. I would have liked to have seen his character struggle
a little more with his feelings for Jordan, as well as a little bit more
buildup with their relationship.
All in all, I could not have put Corporate Affair by Linda
Cunningham down if I had wanted to! It should definitely be on your must-read
list!
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Linda has written steadily throughout the years, but usually
other people’s papers, speeches, or articles for agricultural trade magazines.
Her only published work of fiction was a children’s book, “The Copper Angel of
Piper’s Mill”, written in 1988 when her children were still small. Now that the
kids are out of the house, Linda is writing fiction again, and this time it’s
personal! She writes full time and it’s Romance!

Linda lives in a romantic stone house in the green
mountains of Vermont surrounded by her gardens and her animals who include
horses, sheep, cats, dogs, chickens, a parakeet and various wildlife visitors
who wander in and out at will. When time permits, she also enjoys sketching and
painting.
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