Rich Girl Summer
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
Fake heiress. Real secrets. One sizzling summer she’ll never forget.
Event planner Valerie Peng never planned on spending her summer sipping champagne at a lakefront estate, dodging suspicious socialites, or pretending to be anyone’s long-lost daughter. But when a very public, deeply mortifying mishap lands her in hot water—and her career in a hot mess—her uber-wealthy older client makes her an offer she can’t refuse: come to his glamorous summer home and pose as the long-lost daughter he believes his conniving family has hidden from him. In exchange? Time away from her actual life...and the chance to help uncover a long-buried secret.
But Cinderella needs some magic for this big of a makeover. Enter Nico Hever: her client’s maddeningly perfect right-hand man. He’s organized, meticulous, impossible to read, and infuriatingly handsome. But even though he claims this scheme is a capital-M Mistake, Nico’s the only person she can trust to have her back. As they navigate a world of eccentric matriarchs, class divides, and private family feuds, their chemistry is as undeniable as it is ill-timed.
Caught between pretending to belong and unexpectedly finding where she truly fits in, Valerie’s summer is about to get far more complicated than she ever planned.
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This high concept charmer from Chu (The Stand-In) finds event planner Valerie Peng's business in peril after the memorial service she was hired to organize for wealthy Torontonian Malcolm Badgerton goes comically awry. Then one of Malcolm's sons, Roger, offers her an unexpected source of income. He's just found out that someone in his family paid off his high school sweetheart—who, unbeknownst to him, was pregnant—to leave him. He has a fully grown daughter he's never met and he's determined to figure out which of his relatives were in on the scheme to keep her out of their lives. His somewhat convoluted solution? Have Valerie, who bears a striking resemblance to his lost love, pose as that daughter for the summer and see how his relatives respond to her presence. In exchange, she gets a hefty sum of money, a rehabilitated image, and a chance to spend more time with Roger's handsome right-hand man, Nico Hever. As Badgerton family drama unfolds against a luxurious mansion backdrop, Valerie and Nico, who alternate narration, discover an explosive chemistry. Readers who can get on board with the somewhat strained premise will find plenty to enjoy in Chu's vibrant characters, lively plotting, and red-hot love scenes.
