On Submission

On Submission ☆

Pitch

THE PENETRATION TEST is a steamy contemporary STEM romance with elements of suspense pitched as Legally Blondes’ Elle Woods reimagined as an undercover spy in an Ali Hazelwood-style love story. Where an undercover Tech entrepreneur has to avoid discovery by the soon-to-be CEO of the company she is infiltrating.

Blurb

When her dad loses everything to an online scam, Billie Adams is determined to save her childhood home from repossession. Her lifeline comes in the form of Abbot Knight the owner of Knight Venture Capital, one of London’s most powerful corporations. As a tech entrepreneur whose company ByteMe specialises in ‘Penetration Tests’, Billie’s secret mission is to go undercover as a new employee, reveal the security weaknesses and then collect the substantial payment which will save her beloved home. Step one: do not run into Weston Knight, the elusive (and infuriatingly handsome) heir to the company, in the coffee shop next door.

Weston Knight lives and breathes work. Never afraid to be the bad guy, West refuses to show vulnerability in work or his personal life as he’s learned the hard way that most people, especially potential dates, are more interested in his status as a scion of the powerful Knight family. However, with an anonymous extorter demanding a payout or their company secrets will be spilled, West is scrambling to uncover the mole, save the company’s reputation and allow his grandfather, Abbot, to retire with the knowledge that the company is safe in West’s hands. Always lazer-focused, nothing will get in his way, except the intriguing new employee who doesn’t seem to be intimidated by him.

Their chemistry instantly sizzles, and Billie and West soon find themselves exploring much more personal penetration tests in the company lift, in his office during work, in the back of the company car… The closer Billie gets to completing her security tests, the closer she and West become; however when he catches her red-handed downloading sensitive company information, West has to come to terms with the fact that the woman he believed he was falling for is not who she claimed to be and in order to win back West’s heart, Billie will have to catch the mole herself.

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