I was twenty-two years old and only three weeks out of college.
I thought my whole life was beginning....
Then he kissed me.
Jamie McAlister has resigned herself to the fact that in this job
market, her painfully expensive degree might only get her a position at
Starbucks, when she suddenly lands a prestigious internship at the White
House. Although she doesn't hit it off with the other interns--lockjaws
who come from so much money that ten weeks without a paycheck doesn't
faze them--she is eager to work hard and make the best of the
opportunity while it lasts.
An unexpected encounter late one evening with the charismatic President
Gregory Rutland seems like just a fleeting flirtation, but when he
orchestrates clandestine meetings and late-night phone calls, their
relationship quickly escalates. Jamie knows what she is doing is wrong:
he's married, he has kids, he's the President. Yet each time she tries
to extricate herself, Greg pulls her back in.
With the conflicted desires of the most powerful man in the world
driving her to her breaking point, Jamie can't help but divulge intimate
details to those closest to her. But she must have confided in the wrong
person, because she soon finds herself, and everyone she cares about,
facing calculated public destruction at the hands of Greg's political
enemies, and--perhaps no matter how much he cares about her--at the
hands of Greg himself.
