A Lyon's Share — Janet Dailey

Her resignation was typed and ready. But Joan Somers was strangely reluctant to submit it to Brandt Lyon. Her resolve that she was doing the right thing hadn't wavered, but Brandt's unexplained actions raised hopes that she couldn't entirely shrug aside, then everything changed with Brandt's words.

"Miss Somers," he said curtly, "I'm prepared to accept your resignation. And please make it clear to the agency that this time I want someone older, and married. Someone I can rely on not to be carried away by ridiculous flights of fanciful imagination!

Hero: Brandt Lyon
Heroine: Joan Somers