Showing results for "The Assistant" in Women's Fiction

'Funny and clever, this is the next Devil Wears Prada' Paige Toon Behind every successful man is a busy assistant and Tina’s boss is very successful. But Tina is tired of being overworked and underpaid. She’s bored of her damp flat and her mounting debts. Then a blip in the expenses system...

Petrograd, 1916 When her aristocratic family is left destitute, Mariya grows desperate to survive—and to support her widowed mother and sisters. She finds financial relief in a job with Dr. Nikolas Rodin, a reclusive scientist. While the work makes ends meet, Mariya is soon pulled into the eerie rhythm of the laboratory: a realm of orange gaslights, unsettling experiments, and a man whose genius is as seductive as it is unstable. Tuberculosis and revolution both ravage Russia.

She’s my best friend’s sister, and I’m her new boss. There are three things I expect from a good assistant: Punctuality, honesty, and trustworthiness. She says she’s all that. Despite my reservations, I decide to give her a shot. To my surprise, she follows my every command.

“Ocean’s Eleven meets The Devil Wears Prada” (The Skimm) in this hilarious, razor-sharp debut novel about a group of overeducated and underpaid women who decide they’ve finally had enough... Rule #1: All important men have assistants. Rule #2: Men rule the world. Still. Rule #3: There is...

A murder in the science lab shatters a woman’s quiet and ordered life when she decides she must solve the crime herself in this entertaining and uplifting mystery. Plenty of people consider Margaret Finch odd. Six-feet-tall and big-boned, she lives alone in a small cabin in the woods, drives a...

Named a Most Anticipated Read of 2024 by Zibby Media ∙ Jordy’s Book Club ∙ Novel Suspects ∙ The Nerd Daily ∙ Pure Wow ∙ She Reads ∙ and more! Offered a dream job in Hollywood with a famous director and his actress wife, an insecure woman becomes their personal assistant where their...

“A stunning work that lingers long after the final page.” —Julie Clark, New York Times bestselling author A shocking death rocks the elite New York City art world, unearthing old secrets for a young gallery assistant who finds herself at the center of a dangerous web of deceit in this...

USA TODAY bestselling author Kimberly Belle returns with a deeply addictive thriller exploring the dark side of the digital world when a mommy-blogger’s assistant goes missing. When Alex first began posting unscripted family moments and motivational messages online, she had no intention of...

2004: In historic Charleston, recently divorced art conservator Gamble Vance throws herself into her career restoring centuries-old miniature portraits. But one portrait haunts her: a woman in a fox stole, with familiar hazel eyes. When Gamble meets a girl in an alley, she's convinced it's the...

Ross Davies, ace pitcher for the New Orleans Revelers, needs help putting his life back in order before he throws away everything he's worked so hard for. Casey Carradine has a knack for managing people's lives. When she agrees to step up to the plate and help Ross dig his way out of the debris of his failed marriage, it shouldn't be a hard task. After all, she's run her rockstar sister's life for years. But things get heated and lines get crossed. And neither of them expect the curveball that's thrown their way.

Pregnant by the potential next POTUS? Washington, we have a problem here. It is called Reid Prentice. The irresistibly handsome last-minute candidate who runs for presidency. He’s looking for a new assistant to support his campaign. I’m ready to notch up my political career. Sounds like a win-win situation, right? Yet Reid isn’t your ordinary prince from a fairytale. His arrogance is off the charts, and he can be cold and demanding. At the same time, I’ve never felt more alive and excited to be around a man.

Porter le bébé de l'homme susceptible de devenir le prochain président des États-Unis d'Amérique ? Washington, nous avons un problème. Son nom, Reid Prentice. Un candidat à la présidentielle au charme irrésistible, dernier à se lancer dans la course. Il recherche un nouvel assistant pour l'aider à mener sa campagne électorale. Quant à moi, je suis prête à mettre un coup d'accélérateur dans ma carrière politique. De quoi y trouver tous les deux notre compte, non ? Mais Reid n'a rien du prince charmant.