title: Can You Keep a Secret?
author:  Sophie Kinsella 
description: Things are suddenly starting to look up for the hapless but optimistic Emma Corrigan. She has kept her job at Panther Cola for nearly a year, has the perfect boyfriend and hopes for a promotion to marketing executive should her first opportunity to strut her stuff and land a business deal be successful. Unfortunately, things don't go quite as planned, and on her unusually turbulent return flight from a disappointing client meeting, in a terrified state, she confesses her innermost secrets to the good-looking stranger sitting beside her. When she shows up at work the next morning, she is horrified to discover that her mystery man is none other than the revered and brilliant Jack Harper, American CEO of Panther Cola, on a weeklong visit to the company's U.K. branch. Thus begins a series of chaotic, emotionally exhausting and funny episodes that thrust Emma, with her workaholic best friend, Lissy, and their awful flatmate Jemima, into a world of fairy tales, secrets and deceit. Venturing beyond Saks and Barney's, the bestselling author of Confessions of a Shopaholic and Shopaholic Ties the Knot entertains readers with backstabbing office shenanigans, competition, scandal, love and sex. The plot is gossamer thin (Jack is keeping secrets of his own) and the lopsided romance not entirely believable, but Kinsella's down-to-earth protagonist is sure to have readers sympathizing and doubled over in laughter. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  For my family, Audrey, Jack, and Julia Orenstein
  
  — Chapter 1 —
  I can count on one hand the number of people I’ve told about my family’s
  mortifying secret. There’s my boyfriend. My best friend. That girl I trusted in
  high school who leaked it to my whole class. And now, my new boss, Penelope
  Winslow, founder and CEO of Bliss. I had to tell her to get hired; it was the only
  way I knew I’d land the job for sure. Anywhere else, the secret makes me a leper;
  at Bliss, it won me the job. Penelope says it’ll make me a star.
  I hadn’t planned on te