If Not For You

A letter gone astray throws Layla Whitford into Max Lerner's path, a path that includes a kidnapping, stock manipulation, and love. Will they both survive the encounter?

Successful businessman Max Lerner had it all—until the threats started. Someone wants to sabotage his latest merger, and that someone has inexplicably thrown Layla Whitford into the fray. When Max meets Layla, she turns his world upside down. Suddenly, Max wants to forget about the merger, the threats…and his bachelor lifestyle.

Layla had rebounded from her divorce to a workaholic businessman and started a new life in the Twin Cities, testing software for a small computer company. When she receives a threatening letter, she gives it to the authorities. But the letter was meant for Max Lerner, an uptight Suit from Tieland who places business first, Layla second.

Then Layla is kidnapped, and it isn’t about business anymore. For Max, it’s about the safety of this crazy woman he’s fallen in love with. Max and his friends have to find Layla, shore up the merger, squash rumors of software piracy and find those responsible for this chaos—all in a matter of hours.

If they can accomplish all that, surely Max and Layla can find a way for an ex-hippy war protestor and a business-driven CEO to find a happy-ever-after—can’t they?

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