Natalie and Joseph Reyes continue to juggle the drama of everyone else's lives while trying to strengthen their loving marriage that only feels drained. Escaping growing problems at home with her husband, Natalie opens the door of a strange connection between her brother and her executive assistant in the workplace.<br><br>Tony Taylor and Amelia Conrad contend for an open vice-president position at Millennium Fashion House. One of the required challenges for the job is to transform homeless kids and inner city high school misfits into classy Millennium models for an upcoming marketing campaign. <br><br>The no-nonsense Amelia may have the ambition to successfully win the vice-president job. But her cut-throat perfectionism is no match for her softening heart toward the rough inner city teenagers with whom she has to work – and her secret love for Tony. When there is a high-profile career to achieve versus the unlikely fulfillment of her dream to win the handsome bachelor's heart, there should be one choice to make. Business. But her heart's desire for the man, who rejected her in the past, risks her goal to defeat him as a contending executive. Tony struggles with his own developing feelings toward the tyrant whom he had long ago learned to shun as a person. But right within their competitive environment, he notices Amelia's sweet change toward the poor community he loves. A popular player among women with desires for status and everything that comes with it, he can't understand why he can't get Amelia out of his mind.<br><br>Centered by a host of other developing relationships within their circle of friends, Amelia and Tony reflect on a bitter past as an obstacle that stands between them. Theirs is a complicated love story between two people who don't want to be in love – at least, not with each other for reasons neither is willing to mention.
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Lanette Zavala. Marriage Vows Under Fire Summer Love Series 2: Tender Rivalry
Acknowledgements
Prologue. 1980
1991
Part One: For the Love of Appearances
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
The Interlude. Interlude Chapter I: Preparing For The Wedding Day. March 1985
Part Two: Masquerades Aside
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
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“I’m here, Tony.”
“So, how about dinner with me?”
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“Anyway, Vivian told me she and Chad wanted to spend the night together,” she informed him. “I hope they don’t try anything. Vivian needs to go to church with me some time.”
Joseph placed an entire small square of chicken sandwich into his mouth before returning to the table. With a full mouth, he said to her, “Nat, going to church won’t change her if she doesn’t know the reason for going to church.”