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Sugar daddy / Lisa Kleypas.
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- ISBN: 9780312351625
- Physical Description: ix, 371 pages ; 25 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : St. Martin's Press, [2007]
- Copyright: ©2007
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| Genre: | Love stories. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Gibsons Public Library | FIC KLEY (Text) | 30886000204848 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2006 October #2
Money is tight while Liberty Jones is growing up in Welcome, Texas, but somehow she and her mother Diana manage. Having good friends like Miss Marva, Lucy Reyes, and especially Hardy Cates, on whom Liberty has a crush, helps. Then tragedy strikes and Liberty must take care of her younger sister and find a way to support them. Hard work and determination get Liberty through cosmetology school, then, while working in a Houston salon, she meets wealthy older businessman Churchill Travis, who offers her a job as his personal assistant. At first Liberty is reluctant to accept, especially since Churchill's son, Gage, seems to think she's a gold digger. Then, just as Liberty is settling into her new life and her initially frosty relationship with Gage is heating up and turning romantic, Hardy Cates, her first unrequited love, reappears. New York Times best-seller and RITA Award winner Kleypas moves from historical romance into contemporary women's fiction with an emotionally compelling and superbly satisfying tale of family, friendship, hope, and love. Writing with wit, wisdom, and warmth, Kleypas has created a book to treasure. ((Reviewed October 15, 2006)) Copyright 2006 Booklist Reviews. - BookPage Reviews : BookPage Reviews 2007 March
Getting off to a sweet startWell known to historical romance fans, RITA winner Lisa Kleypas rocks the house with her first hardcover contemporary romance, the Texas-rooted saga Sugar Daddy. Liberty Jones is a smart girl from the wrong side of the tracks who gets thumped by fate when her mother dies in a car accident, leaving Liberty to put her dreams on hold while she rears her little sister. But fate has some good fortune in store, too, and the plucky Liberty finds herself caught between two powerful, rich men—one she loved long ago, and one who might be the man of her dreams. Woven with an exquisite sense of place and time, from the hot south Texas trailer park where "the sun was as round and white as a paper plate tacked to the sky," to the elegance of Houston's super-rich, Kleypas' passion for the people and culture of the Lone Star State takes the reader on a highly enjoyable ride. Copyright 2007 BookPage Reviews.
- Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2006 October #1
Growing up as an outsider in Welcome, Texas, Liberty Jones struggles to find love and acceptance.Bookish, shy and mindful of her mixed heritage (a Mexican father and a blonde, blue-eyed mother), Liberty is a social pariah. Though she's a beauty, her trailer-park home and low socioeconomic standing do nothing to further her stock among the other kids in town. She falls hard for trailer-park hottie Hardy Cates, a tough cowboy with rugged good looks and a wild streak. He sticks around long enough to steal the teenaged Liberty's heart before leaving Welcome to pursue his fortune. Loss becomes a constant in her life; tragic accidents claim both of her parents before she's 18. Forced to abandon her dreams of college, she learns a trade to support herself and her five-year-old sister, Carrington. With a beautician's certificate in hand, Liberty heads to Houston, where she lands an apprenticeship at a swank salon and vows to work her way into the middle class, one highlight appointment at a time. Her rise from poverty speeds up when obscenely wealthy businessman Churchill Travis takes a fancy to her. He offers her a job as his personal assistant and opens his home to the sisters. Churchill's family gives them the cold shoulder, but then (wouldn't you know it?) the son who resisted Liberty the most becomes smitten with the stunning interloper. Just when Liberty seems to be on the primrose path, Hardy saunters back into the picture and stirs up trouble. The author unabashedly and unsubtly capitalizes on Texas stereotypes: Big-haired, long-nailed women lust for the trappings of wealth; headstrong oilmen have fiery tempers and rapacious sexual appetites. But she also knows when to let the plot run wild and when to pull on the reins.Sinfully pleasurable melodrama.First printinig of 225,000. Agent: Mel Berger/William Morris Agency Copyright Kirkus 2006 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2006 September #4
Mass market bestseller Kleypas makes her hardcover debut with this entertaining chronicle of Liberty Jones's rise from the trailer park to life in a Texas mansion. The daughter of a Hispanic father (who dies during Liberty's childhood) and a white mother, Liberty pines for the hunky bad boy Hardy Cates while mom Diana has another daughter, Carrington, and scores the occasional windfall to keep the famil afloat. After Diana is killed in a traffic accident, Liberty raises Carrington, gets a beauty school scholarship and lands a gig at an exclusive Houston salon. There she meets investment mogul Churchill Travis, who takes a paternal shine to her. A horse-riding accident puts Churchill in a wheelchair, and he hires Liberty to be his personal assistant, with the catch that both sisters have to live with him. Churchill's oldest son, Gage, immediately distrusts Liberty, and their vicious bickering, as romance readers know, can lead to only one thing. Things get messy once Hardy, now rich, reappears and a Travis family secret is revealed. Though Liberty's plight and redemption are straight out of the soaps and the prose has its trite moments, Kleypas's many readers will root for Liberty, a fiery and likable underdog. (Mar.)
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