00000nam a2200000 a 4500 Swan, Karen aut Verfasser/-in Christmas woman Island of Islay Romance winter CEO secrets English companies SCOTLAND success Distillery Englisch memories deadline choices blurred boundaries novel Coach The Christmas Secret When the lies stop, can love begin? Karen Swan London Pan Books an imprint of Pan Macmillan 2017 Alex Hyde is the leaders' leader. An executive coach par excellence, she's the person the great and the good turn to when the pressure gets too much; she can change the way they think, how they operate, she can turn around the very fortunes of their companies.<br/><br/>Her waiting list is months long, but even she can't turn down the unorthodox but highly lucrative crisis call that comes her way a few weeks before Christmas, regarding the troublesome - and troubled - head of an esteemed whisky company in Scotland: Lochlan Farquhar, CEO of Kentallen Distilleries, is a maverick, an enigma and a renegade, and Alex needs to get inside his head before he brings the company to its knees.<br/><br/>It should be business as usual. She can do this in her sleep. Only, when she gets to the remote island of Islay, with the winter snows falling, Alex finds herself out of her comfort zone. For once she's not in control - Lochlan, though darkly charismatic, is unpredictable and destructive, her usual methods gaining no traction with him - and with Christmas and her deadline fast approaching, she must win his trust and find a way to close on this deal.<br/><br/>But as she pulls ever closer to him, boundaries become blurred, loyalties loosen and Alex finds herself faced with an impossible choice as she realizes nothing and no-one is as they first seemed. 9781509838059 9781509838059 1509838058 1509838058 eng 0 484 Seiten