Lay Down the Law
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3.7 • 7 Ratings
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
Peyton Davis is part rancher, part federal prosecutor, and all Texan. Strong and steady, she’s known for keeping her cool in every situation, but when she meets the beautiful and accomplished heiress to the Gantry oil fortune, she falls fast and hard. When she learns her new assignment is to investigate the Gantry family’s business, her entire belief system will be tested.
Lily Gantry leads a privileged and protected life and she has no idea it’s all about to blow up in her face. What she does know is that the striking rancher she met at the Cattle Baron’s Ball has the potential to steal her heart. Will she feel the same way when she finds out Peyton Davis’s investigation threatens not only her family’s fortune, but the very foundation of her identity?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Recognized for the pithy realism of her characters and settings drawn from a Texas legal milieu, Taite (Courtship) pays homage to the prime-time soap opera Dallas in pairing a cartel-busting U.S. attorney, Peyton Davis, with a charity-minded oil heiress, Lily Gantry. It s not as improbable as it first appears: Peyton s family has fallen on hard times, but they own a ranch with a storied past, giving her entr e to Dallas society. And Lily s father may be up to some shady shenanigans with drug lords south of the border. Peyton s family battles over who will run the ranch, and Lily, an adoptee, seeks the truth of her birth with the help of a beautiful private investigator. While Dallas had entire TV seasons to unravel its dishy entanglements, Taite crams a great many events into a rather scant page count. More of a thriller than a romance, Peyton and Lily s connection relies on little more than a fondly anticipated picnic, and even gut-wrenching details, like terminal cancer or a predecessor s assassination, come across as dramatic boxes to be ticked rather than heartfelt experiences.
