St Martins Press

We meet Liberty Jones at 15, in her Texas trailer park home, where she meets and falls into deep infatuation with bad-boy Hardy Cates.  (We're told he's a badass, but through Liberty's eyes he's all blue-eyed kindness.)   Although there's a connection, Hardy won't allow himself to get involved.  He has ambitions, and soon after he leaves town Liberty's mother is killed and she takes over guardianship of her baby sister.  A beauty shop apprenticeship takes her to Houston where she meets the powerful Travis family.  A coincidence or something more?  Eventually she accepts a job as PA to the family patriarch.  People -- including his eldest son, the enigmatic and very alpha Gage -- assume he's her Sugar Daddy but there's more to this relationship than meets the eye.  

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