She'd been too busy to realize she was a woman

It took Ben Shapiro, her dynamic boss at international Science Technology, to point out that her years of study and hard work had kept Tara from becoming a woman.

Their relationship had always been fiery. She disliked him heartily even though she was grateful for his kindness to her disabled mother.

Anyway, Ben evidently had no designs on her, so why should he care? But Tara couldn't help wondering why they always struck sparks from each other and why she always seemed to end up in Ben's arms.