Phyllis J. Piano spent more than 30 years as an award-winning corporate communications expert for some of the world’s largest companies. She has somehow managed to maintain her sense of humor, love of writing, and her passion for life and the people she loves and cares about throughout it all.

A world traveler, Piano has left the corporate world and has fallen back into the arms of her own first love…writing. She and her husband split their time between California, England and the Midwest. When she is not packing a bag, making artisan sourdough bread or cooking with lots of garlic, Piano is working on a screenplay and her next novel.

When Aleen Riddick’s marriage falls apart after her eighteen-year-old daughter, Sunny, loses her beloved boyfriend in a tragic accident, they look to the dead boy’s father, grief-stricken Ted Hammand, to help them heal and redefine life. When shocking developments force them to confront those who deceived them, Aleen, Ted, and Sunny must decide if forgiveness will drive them back to the pain of the past or forward to a future of possibilities. Love Reconsidered is about families―their grief, guilt, compassion, love, forgiveness, and hope.

Long lost love, a hostile corporate takeover, and the death of her beloved husband turn attorney Molly Parr’s life into a tailspin that threatens to ruin everything she has ever worked for or loved. Molly’s all-consuming job is to take over other companies but when her first love, a man who she feels betrayed her, appears out of nowhere to try and acquire her business, long hidden passions and secrets are exposed.

Can Molly trust the man who broke her heart years ago and may be manipulating her now to get what he wants? Complicating matters is the reemergence of her lost love’s brother, who was a dear friend and knows the shocking truth about the past. As Molly painfully revisits her lost love, she partners with her boss and mentor to fight against the hostile takeover at all costs. The chaos that consumes her forces Molly to reexamine everything and chart a dramatic new direction for her life. She must suddenly decide if she has the courage to follow her heart and expose her painful past, a decision that may cost her everything.

Hostile Takeover: A Love Story perfectly marries the complex world of business with the emotional and passionate dealings of the heart.