The Boss
Cate Sexton
(Independently published, June 20, 2018)
The Boss by Cate Sexton Description: Melissa Eldridge is an overweight 31-year-old struggling with life in New York city. She is smart and pretty, but no-one can see it because of the fat. She is depressed but determined to get employment at more than a temp job. For the time being she is working at a health-food supplements firm. But this creates a new problem for Melissa because she fancies the boss, billionaire, Clement Montague. Of course, Clement Montague wouldn’t look twice at Melissa, and she is surrounded by skinny super-models at work. Melissa resigns herself to being invisible to him until one day he calls her into the office and says he wants her to lose weight. She slaps him across the face, insulted by his offer. He says it’s for the company as having overweight staff isn’t a good look for the firm. But what if losing weight is just what Melissa needs?