A Bluebird Sky Series by Ellory Douglas

Jill Northrop has an impressive career, a fervent desire for control, and a desperate need to get as far away from her old life as possible. Now what she needs is a plan. So, when her firm offers her a year-long contract on the other side of the country, she pounces on the opportunity for a fresh start. Perfect.Until she meets her first big client.Alex Campbell shows up in her office: the glowering, impossible teacher’s assistant who made her first year of university miserable... moreJill Northrop has an impressive career, a fervent desire for control, and a desperate need to get as far away from her old life as possible. Now what she needs is a plan. So, when her firm offers her a year-long contract on the other side of the country, she pounces on the opportunity for a fresh start. Perfect.Until she meets her first big client.Alex Campbell shows up in her office: the glowering, impossible teacher’s assistant who made her first year of university miserable. He’s perpetually disorganized, chronically late, and ready to do just about anything to get his tech to market. That anything includes letting his partner talk him into hiring Jill to write the funding proposal for their start up.But now eight years later, Alex isn’t the same moody jerk she remembers, and Jill finds herself having unnerving thoughts about her smart, good-looking client.A disaster of an office, a brand-new file, and a jumble of conflicting feelings. With everything going wrong, can she make sure her carefully laid plans go right? less

Cassidy St. Claire's dating history is an overflowing dumpster of situationships. It’s enough to make her swear off dating. Which she does ... but when the irresistible man with icy eyes and a wicked smile crashes her girls’ weekend, she’s willing to make an exception. For one perfect, mind-blowing night. It couldn’t be scripted better.Then he shows up on her film set. His film set, actually.Josh Graham’s movie—his dream—is going into production... moreCassidy St. Claire's dating history is an overflowing dumpster of situationships. It’s enough to make her swear off dating. Which she does ... but when the irresistible man with icy eyes and a wicked smile crashes her girls’ weekend, she’s willing to make an exception. For one perfect, mind-blowing night. It couldn’t be scripted better.Then he shows up on her film set. His film set, actually.Josh Graham’s movie—his dream—is going into production. What’s more, the studio agrees to give him a shot at directing. Now for once, finding his next hook up isn’t the only thing on his mind. Until the gorgeous woman with a musical laugh and hidden wild streak who left him reeling turns up on his creative team.They agree their one-night stand needs to be just that: one night. But when their attraction only grows stronger, it becomes impossible to keep their minds, and hands, off each other. less

From the moment she smiled at me, my heart belonged to the woman who was reclaiming her life after losing herself. Nothing that gentle treatment and letting her take the lead wouldn’t heal.Good thing I’m a patient man.Two years later, Jill is ready to be my wife, which leaves us the minor detail of planning a wedding. I thought my planning-obsessed fiancée would be in her element. Enter her narcissistic mother—who happens to be my academic idol—with a plan of her own... moreFrom the moment she smiled at me, my heart belonged to the woman who was reclaiming her life after losing herself. Nothing that gentle treatment and letting her take the lead wouldn’t heal.Good thing I’m a patient man.Two years later, Jill is ready to be my wife, which leaves us the minor detail of planning a wedding. I thought my planning-obsessed fiancée would be in her element. Enter her narcissistic mother—who happens to be my academic idol—with a plan of her own.Now my first job as Jill’s future husband is to keep my anxious bride-to-be from falling to pieces while she tries to balance pleasing her mother with having the wedding that she wants.What could go wrong?A Better Engagement is a spicy, extended epilogue to A Better Proposal, following Alex and Jill from “Yes!” to “I do,” and their hijinks along the way. less