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* '''Year''': 2007 | * '''Year''': 2007 | ||
* '''Setting''': Small town Welcome, Texas and Houston, Texas | * '''Setting''': Small town Welcome, Texas and Houston, Texas | ||
| − | * '''Amazon Listing''' | + | * '''Amazon Listing''': [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312351623/ref=nosim/103-3685024-2000659?n=283155 Sugar Daddy] |
| + | ==Book Description== | ||
Liberty Jones fell in love with Hardy Cates when she and her mother moved to a trailer park in Welcome, Texas when she was fourteen years old. However, Hardy wasn't going to let even love stand in the way of his ambition to escape the poverty of his childhood and he resists the attraction to Liberty even as she matures into a beauty. In the meantime, Liberty finds herself taking care of her new little sister - getting up for middle-of-the-night feedings and missing out on much of a social life. Then Hardy leaves town - and leaves Liberty broken hearted. | Liberty Jones fell in love with Hardy Cates when she and her mother moved to a trailer park in Welcome, Texas when she was fourteen years old. However, Hardy wasn't going to let even love stand in the way of his ambition to escape the poverty of his childhood and he resists the attraction to Liberty even as she matures into a beauty. In the meantime, Liberty finds herself taking care of her new little sister - getting up for middle-of-the-night feedings and missing out on much of a social life. Then Hardy leaves town - and leaves Liberty broken hearted. | ||
After her mother dies, Liberty is determined to make a better life for herself and her baby sister. Moving to the big city, she goes to beauty school and starts a career. Then she makes an unlikely friend in billionaire tycoon Churchill Travis, who offers her a job as his personal assistant. Churchill's son, Gage, is convinced she's nothing but a gold digger looking for a Sugar Daddy, but there is only friendship -- or perhaps a kinship?-- between Liberty and the older man. Then just as Liberty and her sister begin to feel settled and Liberty is able to feel love and attraction for Gage, Hardy comes back into their lives... | After her mother dies, Liberty is determined to make a better life for herself and her baby sister. Moving to the big city, she goes to beauty school and starts a career. Then she makes an unlikely friend in billionaire tycoon Churchill Travis, who offers her a job as his personal assistant. Churchill's son, Gage, is convinced she's nothing but a gold digger looking for a Sugar Daddy, but there is only friendship -- or perhaps a kinship?-- between Liberty and the older man. Then just as Liberty and her sister begin to feel settled and Liberty is able to feel love and attraction for Gage, Hardy comes back into their lives... | ||
| + | ==Awards/Honors== | ||
''Sugar Daddy'' was a [[2008 RITA® Winners|2008 RITA® finalist]] in the [[RITA®: Novel With Strong Romantic Elements]] category. | ''Sugar Daddy'' was a [[2008 RITA® Winners|2008 RITA® finalist]] in the [[RITA®: Novel With Strong Romantic Elements]] category. | ||
Revision as of 02:07, 27 March 2009
- Author: Lisa Kleypas
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press
- Year: 2007
- Setting: Small town Welcome, Texas and Houston, Texas
- Amazon Listing: Sugar Daddy
Book Description
Liberty Jones fell in love with Hardy Cates when she and her mother moved to a trailer park in Welcome, Texas when she was fourteen years old. However, Hardy wasn't going to let even love stand in the way of his ambition to escape the poverty of his childhood and he resists the attraction to Liberty even as she matures into a beauty. In the meantime, Liberty finds herself taking care of her new little sister - getting up for middle-of-the-night feedings and missing out on much of a social life. Then Hardy leaves town - and leaves Liberty broken hearted.
After her mother dies, Liberty is determined to make a better life for herself and her baby sister. Moving to the big city, she goes to beauty school and starts a career. Then she makes an unlikely friend in billionaire tycoon Churchill Travis, who offers her a job as his personal assistant. Churchill's son, Gage, is convinced she's nothing but a gold digger looking for a Sugar Daddy, but there is only friendship -- or perhaps a kinship?-- between Liberty and the older man. Then just as Liberty and her sister begin to feel settled and Liberty is able to feel love and attraction for Gage, Hardy comes back into their lives...
Awards/Honors
Sugar Daddy was a 2008 RITA® finalist in the RITA®: Novel With Strong Romantic Elements category.
Related Titles
This the first in a series of books about the Travis Family. The next book Blue-Eyed Devil (2008) is about Hardy Cates and Haven Travis.
