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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.
I've been a fan of Kleypas's historicals for yonks, but for some reason it took me a while to try her first foray into contemporary romance. Not sure why; maybe I didn't want to be disappointed. I picked this up at the SF signings and I'm SO glad I did. It is exactly my kind of book, peopled with engrossing characters in a finely drawn setting I wanted to know more about. Not just descriptions and detail, but how that coloured the characters and their lives. Although told in first person and although it is very much Liberty's story, it didn't feel claustrophobic or self-involved as some first-person narration can do. BIG thumbs up! (Oh, and Blue-Eyed Devil sounds like a perfect follow up. Reading the blurb put me in mind of Sandra Brown's Texas! series; an old favourite.)
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