Welcome to Need to KnowâBecause a Woman Canât Be Too Informed
Dating in D.C. is like navigating an apocalyptic wasteland populated by men in expensive suits with zero mating potential. Need to Know provides all the information a savvy single woman like you needs to avoid dating disasters.
By night, Jordan McAdam is the proprietor of a popular website that rates D.C.âs hottest bachelorsâeverything from how quick they are to email you back, to their skills in the sack. Sheâs been burned once too often to accept any man at face value. By day, her job as an office temp puts her in the perfect position to do a little fact-checking on her rich and powerful subjects. When her latest assignment brings her face-to-face with the sexy but mysterious Forest Redder, Jordan decides to do a little âhands-onâ research of her own. To Jordan, he seems like the perfect manâbut she knows there is no such thing. Moreover, thereâs a big problem: Forest knows Jordanâs the woman behind the scandalous siteâand Jordan knows he knows. Will he expose her secretâor find his own posted on Need to Know?
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Iâm so excited to be a part of the new Cosmo Red-Hot Reads from Mills & Boon! The collaboration of Mills & Boon and Cosmopolitan is the perfect place for my sexy couple, Jordan and Forest.
Starting a new job and new life is rough for all of us, but for Jordan, creating an anonymous website to help other women manoeuvre the rough Washington, D.C., dating game is her dream. But nothing prepares her for Forest. Heâs the man who changes everything, and weâve all met one of those. Heâs a smart and successful businessman who wants to know her secrets. She has to outrun him, but truth is, sheâd much rather he catch her.
Thank you for picking up Everything You Need to Know. I love Forest and Jordan, and hope you do, too! You can visit me at www.helenkaydimon.com to learn a little more about them and get a peek at what (and who) inspired the book.
HelenKay Dimon
Chapter One
Subject Report on Ryan Peterson: Spent entire date talking about Ryanâyes, he refers to himself in the third person. When he drove me home and I refused to sleep with him on the first date, he urinated on my front porch. Run from this blowhard. âMember 121
Need to Know admin staff: Confirmed blowhard.
JORDAN MCADAM LOOKED across the conference-room table at Ryan Peterson and fought the urge to roll her eyes. An âoh my God, shut up!â comment begged to escape her lips whenever he opened his mouth, which was every ten seconds.
The guyâs personality consisted of being pompous, loud and loaded. That last one appeared to be his only positive attribute. Not to Jordan. No, sheâd dated enough powerful Washington, D.C., types to place the entire metro area in dating lockdown. Sheâd limit her choices to a pool of males from at least two states away from now on.
Day Four in Ryanâs presence. Sheâd confirmed the major complaints about him by the end of the first afternoon, but had yet to find one redeeming quality to include in the follow-up report for her website. When sheâd started Need to Know, sheâd known the dating world could be physically and emotionally dangerous for women. She never dreamed it resembled an apocalyptic wasteland populated with guys in business suits who possessed zero social skills when it came to handling strong women.
After reading the comments website members had posted about their dates, Jordan no longer worried about her relatively solitary existence. If her choices came down to Ryan, or that guy Ted who one member said spent most dates sending hate texts to his ex, or if she had to pick any of Ryanâs or Tedâs businessmen friends, sheâd continue to limit her bedroom activities to Mr. Fancy, her bright purple vibrator.
Ryan leaned back in his chair and tapped his gold pen against the lined legal pad in front of him. When he exhaled, his stomach relaxed, pushing over the top of his black belt, which was never a good look on a man, money or not, and certainly not on a thirtysomething. âThe meeting this afternoon is important.â
As if she cared. Sheâd taken the temp job to double-check the website reports on Ryan, since they seemed so out there for a grown man. âYes, sir.â
âI need to make a good impression.â He made the comment while he coughed without covering his mouth. âNothing can go wrong.â
As far as she could tell, the only chance for success hinged on Ryan skipping it. âI understand.â