Ain't She Sweet? (48 page)

Authors: Susan Elizabeth Phillips

BOOK: Ain't She Sweet?

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Thank you, Peter Janson-Smith and Sir Richard Rougier, for permission to quote from the works of the incomparable Georgette Heyer.

I’ve received information, advice, and support from so many friends and associates.

Thank you, Steven Axelrod, Jill Barnett, Jennifer Crusie, Lisa Gallagher, Kristin Hannah, Alison Hart, Cissy Hartley, Cathie Linz, Lindsay Longford, Meryl Sawyer, Suzette Vann, Matthew Verscheure, Margaret Watson, everybody on the SEP Bulletin Board, and the entire Phillips gang, including Dana, our newest member, and Nickie Shek, who set me straight on thirteen-year-old girls.

At William Morrow and Avon Books, I am forever grateful to Carrie Feron, my fearless and peerless editor. Also Nancy Anderson, Richard Aquan, Leesa Belt, George Bick, Ralph D’Arienzo, Karen Davy, Darlene Delillo, Gail Dubov, Tom Egner, Seth Fleishman, Josh Frank, Jane Friedman, Heather Gould, Brian Grogan, Cathy Hemming, Angela Leigh, Kim Lewis, Selina McLemore, Brian McSharry, Judy Madonia, Michael Morrison, Jan Parrish, Shelly Perron, Chadd Reese, Rhonda Rose, Pete Soper, Michael Spradlin, Debbie Stier, Andrea Sventora, Bruce Unck, and Donna Waitkus.

Bless all your hearts,

SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS

bout the Author

Susan Elizabeth Phillips
soared onto the
New York Times
bestseller list with her 1998

smash
Dream a Little Dream
. In addition to being the only two-time recipient of the Romance Writers of America’s prestigious Favorite Book of the Year award, she holds the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award. Susan delights fans by touching hearts as well as funny bones with her wonderfully whimsical and modern fairy tales. All of her titles are PerfectBound e-books:
Ain’t She Sweet
,
Breathing Room
;
Dream a Little
Dream
;
First Lady
;
Heaven, Texas
;
It Had to Be You
;
Just Imagine
;
Kiss an Angel
;
Lady
Be Good
;
Nobody’s Baby but Mine
; and
This Heart of Mine
. A resident of the Chicago suburbs, Susan Elizabeth Phillips is a wife and the mother of two grown sons. Visit her on the web at
www.susanelizabethphillips.com.

By Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Breathing Room

This Heart of Mine

Just Imagine

First Lady

Lady Be Good

Dream a Little Dream

Nobody’s Baby But Mine

Kiss an Angel

Heaven, Texas

It Had to Be You

Ain’t She Sweet?

redits

Jacket design by Honi Werner

The chapter epigraphs from the works of Georgette Heyer are reprinted with the permission of Sir Richard Rougier and Harlequin Books. They are copyright Georgette Heyer 1926, 1932, 1940, and 1950.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

AIN’T SHE SWEET? Copyright © 2004 by Susan Elizabeth Phillips All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of PerfectBound™.

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Microsoft Reader February 2004 ISBN 0-06-058848-9

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