Kirjahaku

Lacie Parker is a perfectly happy high school choir teacher. She enjoys life being completely organized and controlled. Her private life is filled with family and community service, and she is so busy working with others that she always puts herself as her last priority. Foster Talbot is a successful businessman. He frequently finds himself on business trips or playing tennis at his country club. Women tend to throw themselves at him without him even noticing. His life gets interrupted when his best friend, Toby Parker, asks him for a favor to drive his sister home from work when her car breaks down. Little does he know what she would mean to him. The only problem will be finding time to get to know this fascinating woman. Lacie thinks Foster is handsome, intelligent, and every woman's dream. However, in her mind you can either have a career or love, not both simultaneously. So what are these new feelings, and what is it about Foster that has turned her into a walking disaster? Can she humble herself enough to let love and work coexist?

With the sudden deaths of his father and older brother, Peter Anthony finds himself in a position he never imagined, the ninth duke of Charlesworth. Mourning the deaths in his family, and the responsibilities with the upkeep of Charlesworth, Peter has more than he can manage. And then a clause in his great-grandfather's will is brought to his attention. All newly appointed dukes in his family line, must marry within one year of inheriting the title, or all the family wealth would be donated to various charities. Lady Anne Spalding, daughter of an earl, was always welcomed in the highest of social circles, but she had no desire to mingle with society regularly. Spending the last three years working for the war office, Anne had new perspective that most women could not relate with. It was time for her to move on with her life, but what now? When Peter met Anne, visiting nearby her father's country estate, word of his family deaths had not yet been released to the public. Instant sparks flew between the two, but Peter had to get back to Charlesworth to fulfill his newly appointed responsibilities. He asks Anne to join him as his wife, still not knowing who he really is. Can Anne take that risk, marrying a kind, but mostly complete stranger? Can the two eventually find love after only meeting on a few short occasions? And will he tell her the secret that she is completely unaware of? If she chose to marry and return with him . . . she would be a duchess.