Maria G. Bourget

Laura is having an early midlife crisis. Fast approaching her 30th birthday, nothing has gone quite to plan. Envisioning a happy career, a loving marriage, and having had children by this age, she instead has a job she is bored with, a failed relationship she had also grown bored with, and no man suitable to even consider settling down with.

After protecting her billionaire boss' scandalous private life from the media, Lacey is offered a promotion to become his private assistant - but is she willing to serve as his personal play-thing after hours?

As co-owner of the Birkelind Art Gallery, Rylee Davis is always on the lookout for new and promising talent. So when a friend of hers returns from North Carolina with an exquisitely dark and dynamic sculpture, Rylee is determined to sign its reclusive, though reputedly gorgeous, sculptor, even if it means going there to personally convince him. But as a winter storm bears down on his mountaintop retreat and they become snowbound, will Rylee learn to put her high-stress ways aside and submit to his unique style of discipline?

By going through six German stories revolving around common, everyday activities, you will expand your vocabulary with words you will use often, along with learning more in-depth grammar by familiarizing yourself with these stories. Each story tackles a fairly mundane task - grocery shopping or visiting a dog park, for example - and in using these settings, this book will allow you the opportunity to hear these words in action, thus making it easier for you to incorporate the new words into not only your vocabulary but seamlessly into the conversation.