Strange bedpersons
Book - 2009
Laid-back hippie Tess Newheart is still in love with her ex-boyfriend, social-climbing businessman Nick Jamieson. When Tess pretends to be his fiancee on a business trip that could make or break Nick's career, he struggles to change her ways while she struggles to change his heart.
- Subjects
- Published
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Don Mills, Ont. :
HQN Books
2009.
- Language
- English
- Item Description
- Originally published: 2003.
- Physical Description
- 328 p. ; 19 cm
- ISBN
- 9780373773527
0373773528 - Main Author
When she agrees to accompany her ex-boyfriend Nick Jamieson, a conservative Republican lawyer, on a weekend business trip as his fiance, Tess Newhart, an outspoken woman of the world, discovers that opposites really do attact.
Review by Publisher Summary 2When she agrees to accompany her ex-boyfriend Nick Jamieson, a conservative Republican lawyer who is desperate to become a partner in his law firm, on a weekend business trip as his fiancée, Tess Newhart, an outspoken woman of the world, discovers that opposites really do attract. Originally in paperback.
Review by Publisher Summary 3Tess Newhart knows her ex-boyfriend Nick Jamieson isn't the right guy for her. He's caviar and champagne; she's take-out Chinese pot stickers. He's an uptight Republican lawyer; she was raised in a commune and thinks Cinderella is politically incorrect. He wants to get ahead in business; she just wants…him—only not the social-climbing Nick, but the sweet, caring, unbuttoned-down Nick.And Nick wants her, too, but there's no way Tess is about to play second fiddle to his obsession to make partner.Yet somehow she finds herself agreeing to play his fiancée for a weekend business trip that could make or break Nick's career. And while he's wrapped up in convincing Tess that he needs her in his respectable world, Tess is doing her best to keep her left-wing opinions to herself and her hands off Nick.
Review by Publisher Summary 4Tess Newhart knows her ex-boyfriend Nick Jamieson isn't the right guy for her. He's caviar and champagne; she's take-out Chinese pot stickers. He's an uptight Republican lawyer; she was raised in a commune and thinks Cinderella is politically incorrect. He wants to get ahead in business; she just wants himonly not the social-climbing Nick, but the sweet, caring, unbuttoned-down Nick.And Nick wants her, too, but there's no way Tess is about to play second fiddle to his obsession to make partner.Yet somehow she finds herself agreeing to play his fiancée for a weekend business trip that could make or break Nick's career. And while he's wrapped up in convincing Tess that he needs her in his respectable world, Tess is doing her best to keep her left-wing opinions to herself and her hands off Nick.