{"product_id":"employing-patience-9781922741226","title":"Employing Patience","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArt\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen it comes to regrets, I have none. My life is perfect. I own a bar, work hard, party harder, and smother my niblings in all the love they deserve. I don't need to settle down, as much as my sister might want me to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut then Joey Manning walks into my office and leaves me all but begging to give him a job ... and wanting to give him so much more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe self-professed straight man is in my head and while I know that I need to move on from him, my body isn't getting that message. It doesn't help that Joey is a grade A flirt who can banter with the best of them. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI've never had regrets. Not until Joey Manning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoey\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bills keep piling up and the pressure to get my sisters through college before we're evicted is always on the back of my mind. Whoever said life was for living, clearly forgot that living's expensive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy default mode is stressed AF and working myself to the bone, and there's only one person who gives me a break from all that.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArt de Almeida.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy boss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe one man I shouldn't flirt with, but I can't seem to stop. I want to get under his skin. To leave him panting for me. Which wouldn't be such a bad thing except that he thinks I'm straight, and I've never bothered to correct him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI need this job.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut some days I worry that I need Art more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmploying Patience is a low angst, small town, employer\/employee romance. It has a ridiculous found family, prince charming costumes and the king of anti-commitment falling hard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-13271740\"\u003eSaxon James\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e May Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/29\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.68d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781922741226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1922741221\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC027020\"\u003eRomance | Contemporary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC027190\"\u003eRomance | LGBTQ+ | Gay\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"May Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44502331785355,"sku":"9781922741226","price":19.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/5100\/7115\/files\/img_09d39ba9-086f-4b01-8726-0802069d47df.jpg?v=1763669566","url":"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/employing-patience-9781922741226","provider":"CA Corrections Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}