Coming on Wednesday April 26th, DAMON UNDONE (The Deverells Book Five).
"We're
not going to get along, you and I, are we?"
"Good
god, I hope not."
Thus begins
the acquaintance of Damon Deverell and a young woman he finds under his feet
one evening, at a ball to which he isn't invited She reminds him instantly of
someone he knew before, but that would be impossible, of course, because she — the girl from his past—was entirely a construct of his own
imagination. Wherever this disturbingly real woman came from, he's determined
to maintain a cautious distance. But when he's hired to keep an eye on her,
Damon's resolve to keep it "merely business" is soon threatened by
some fresh-baked muffins, a pair of ankles he wishes he'd never seen, and a
certain bold, independent American woman who boasts of a "very efficient
right hook".
Miss
Epiphany "Pip" Piper has been sent into exile abroad, where her
father hopes she'll learn to cool off her hot temper, acquire some elegant
manners, and, hopefully, find a titled husband.
Mr. Prospero "Smokey" Piper, of Louisiana and various other parts
unknown and best unmentioned, claims to be the first ambitious and wealthy
American businessman to think of this idea, but just like his very first boyhood
attempt at building a whiskey still behind the family outhouse, this plan
doesn't exactly turn out the way he expects either.
And although
explosions are inevitable, it's not his grandmother's drawers in danger this
time.
When these
two stubborn young people— Damon the "merciless shark" of a lawyer,
who likes his world in order, and the utterly disorderly Miss Piper, a
"despicable girl of whom nothing could be made"- find themselves
thrown together by mischievous fate, it's not just a battle of the sexes or
even a comedy of errors, it's a chemical reaction that will change both their
worlds forever.
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