Review: The Boss and Her Billionaire – Michele de Winton

He threw her inhibitions overboard.

Cruise director Michaela Western has everything she wants—everything except a sex life. But there are no secrets on cruise ships. She risked her job once for a dalliance with the Captain, and won’t do it again for a few minutes of toe-curling pleasure. Until a devilishly handsome new staffer with a body made for sin tempts her to walk on the wild side…

Investment billionaire Dylan Johns always gets what he wants. He is used to giving orders—not taking them—until he’s forced to go on hiatus from his investment company. To bide his time and carry out an old dream, he takes a job on a cruise ship—and ends up taking orders from his gorgeous, but uptight, new boss. He is determined to loosen her up with a fun onboard romance, but their no-strings fling turns serious and Dylan is forced to confess his lies.

When the affair threatens to shatter Michaela’s own career dreams, she finds herself caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.

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Release Date:  July 2012
Publisher:  Entangled Publishing
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Reviewer’s Thoughts:

Billionaire CEO Dylan Johns is forced to take an extended vacation when his older brother comes home and decides he needs Dylan gone so he can fix his marriage and start running the family investment company he walked away from.  Deciding he isn’t the type who can relax and lounge on a beach with a book, Dylan instead auditions to be a dancer on a cruise ship.  While he has no professional experience as a dancer, he’s able to improvise and land a spot with the ship’s entertainment team.

Michaela Western is trying to prove to herself, the ship’s captain and anyone else who will notice that she’s good at being a Cruise Director.  As the only female cruise director in the company, she’s finding it difficult to show how good she is when the ship’s captain, a man she had an ill fated affair with, is destined to keep her under his thumb.  It’s not until she meets one of the new dancers, Dylan, that she starts to realizes there is more to her than she thinks.

Dylan has a way of melting the icy from the cool Michaela.  He shows her the only person she has to prove her worth to is herself.  While he’s teaching her that lesson, he’s also helping her let loose and have some fun…something that was lacking in her life.  But Dylan was also learning that maybe all his preconceived notions about relationships and love aren’t what he thought. 

Michaela and Dylan both had to learn to let go of what happened to them in the past and figure out what was truly important to them.  It wasn’t easy for either of them, but they eventually got it figured out.

This was a cute, if somewhat predicable, story.  While I may have known where it was going, getting to Dylan and Michaela’s happily ever after was worth it.