Becoming the Tycoon's Bride by Patricia Thayer

Hugh wanted that promotion…and he had that much of his father in him to ensure that he went after it. It was important that he increase his value at the McCutcheon Corporation, too. That was sure to raise the next quarterly profit. By the time he’d left the company was running efficiently, with a twenty percent reduction in personnel. But he’d just finished a six-week stay in Atlanta, where he’d downsized a recently purchased electronic parts plant. The one positive thing was that the owner was giving the McCutcheon Corporation the opportunity to come and talk with him. Problem was the family patriarch, Cullan Flanagan, wasn’t eager to sell his family business. His father wanted a lot, but he always had. On his flight from San Francisco to Medford he’d been able to scan it over, but not much more. He shut the phone and tossed it on the passenger seat, next to the proposal for this project: Emerald Vale Orchard and Irish Rogue Vineyard. He’d been promised the position for the last year. It had been agreed he wouldn’t call him Dad during working hours…that meant all the time. He’ll do anything the old man dangles in front of his face. Hugh should be used to getting this treatment from his father.

I’m expecting you to come through for me. I thought Flanagan hadn’t decided to sell…yet.Īnd since when has that mattered to you? his father asked. Why should he be surprised at the request? Whatever he’d done for the company, Richard Mac McCutcheon wanted more. Hugh McCutcheon held the cell phone to his ear, listening to his father’s orders as he drove his rental car along Interstate 5, just outside Medford, Oregon.

YOU’VE got four weeks…but I want this deal wrapped up in two. Box 6251, Anaheim, CA 92816-0251, or check her website at for upcoming books. Just so long as she can share it all with her favorite hero, Steve. You might find her on a ranch in Texas, or on a train to an old mining town in Colorado.

Besides writing romance, she loves to travel, especially in the west, where she researches her books firsthand. Thanks to the understanding men in her life-her husband of more than thirty-five years, Steve, and her three grown sons and three grandsons-Pat has been able to fulfill her dream of writing. In 1997 Nothing Short of a Miracle won the RT Book Reviews Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Special Edition. Her books have been twice nominated for the National Readers’ Choice Award, the Book Buyers’ Best and a prestigious RITA® Award. Patricia Thayer has been writing for more than twenty years and has published thirty books with Silhouette Books and Harlequin Romance.

Becoming the Tycoon's Bride by Patricia Thayer