A Christmas Affair — Carole Mortimer

She'd stuck it out for five years

She'd worked hard and long for her boss, Dominic Reynolds. Their relationship was in many ways closer than most marriages.

The real man below the dynamic, supercool exterior, however, still eluded Cathy Gilbert however much she tried to reach him. "You don't give a damn for anyone's feeling but your own," she told him.

So perhaps it was time to accept that he just wasn't interested in her as a woman and to make a clean break from him. But Dominic's reaction to the news of her leaving was a complete surprise....

Hero: Dominic Reynolds
Heroine: Cathy Gilbert