Cents and Sara Kennedy
Sara Kennedy went from investment broker to love guru almost over night, thanks to her revolutionary re-casting of romantic relationships as another type of personal financing in her self-help book The New Woman's Field Guide to Real Love in Real Life. With her philosophy of 'emotional economics', Sara's Guide is selling fast. But when her beloved step-father, Lord Henry Norland, passes away, Sara returns to England where her newly widowed mother is not coping and her emotionally distant step-brother, complete with pregnant wife, is practically salivating for the ancestral home and title that are now lawfully his. Sara is more than happy to throw herself into her work...What she isn't prepared for is to be thrown into the past, as happens the moment that the rumor mill (aka best friend Charlotte Jenkins-Palmer) announces that Sara's first love Edward Ferrars is divorcing Lucy Steele-Sara's ex best friend and roommate throughout the group's time at 'uni'. Suddenly, Sara's personal and professional lives weren't colliding; Hollywood wants to make a film based on her book and they've sent sexy Scotch-Irish bad boy Will O'Beigh to help convince her he's the actor to do her hard work justice. Cocky and clever, funny and spontaneous, Will knows a thing-or a thousand-about charming a woman, but staid and steady Sara has enough on her plate between pleasing primary clients and attracting new ones; among them the mysterious Mr. Brandon whose good opinion could open an entirely new market and grant Sara's firm the stability it needs. If only Mr. Brandon weren't everything a silver fox millionaire widower shouldn't be- mature, debonair, and more interested in his advisor than her advice. Sara's been responsible her entire life; so it isn't so much a new man she's hunting as a new self? A little wilder, a lot braver...But who will she become? And who will she finally decide she can afford?…