Great-Aunt Sophia's Lessons for Bombshells

A Ph.D. in sex appeal?

Grace Cavanaugh is hell-bent on proving her Women’s Studies dissertation thesis that beauty only leads to misery. And what better research subject than her great-aunt Sophia, a former B-movie star? Now eighty-five and facing surgery, Sophia has asked Grace for company. . . .

Grace imagines a helpless, lonely old woman, forced to turn to a great-niece she barely knows. Instead she finds the aging diva holding court in a Pebble Beach mansion, oozing a bombshell-itude—arthritis and wrinkles be damned—that captivates every male in sight. To Grace’s dismay, her great-aunt decides a perfect distraction would be transforming the frumpy feminist into a femme fatale who purrs for her suitors . . . or devours them. She ordains classes in everything from carb cutting to lingerie, culminating in a challenging final exam. The newly svelte Grace must test her wiles—on both devilishly handsome and morally corrupt Declan and sensitive but painfully awkward Dr. Andrew.

Newly unleashed desires—and the discovery of a closely held family secret—threaten the bookworm-turned-babe’s entire feminist upbringing. Her thesis gone sadly awry, Grace wonders if her great-aunt is right: Will trusting her heart lead her to find beauty in the most unexpected places?

LISA CACH
is the author of more than two dozen best-selling novels noted for their “sharp, humorous writing” (
Booklist
) and their “must-stay-up-and-read-until-dawn” plots (
RT Book Reviews
). A two-time finalist for the Romance Writers of America’s prestigious RITA Award, she lives in the Pacific Northwest. Visit her website at
www.lisacach.com
.

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Temptation. . . .

A few dozen dresses, tops, skirts, and shoe boxes were scattered over the bed, the furniture, and hanging on a rolling clothes rack where gossamer hems and dangling sashes floated in the breeze from the open windows. Grace gaped at the feminine chaos, her gaze flitting from sea green chiffon to orange floral print to black satin. There was not a single item that looked like something she had ever worn, and they were all . . .
beautiful
! She’d never worn pretty things; she hadn’t had the money, or the places to wear them.

Then a haunting sense of guilt crept over her at her own lusting reaction to the
Vogue
-worthy collection. Shopping for trendy, sexy, expensive dresses was not a politically correct activity in her home, landing somewhere between reading
Cosmopolitan
and learning to pole dance on the list of Things Serious Women Do Not Do.

Grace went to the rack and ran her fingertips over the sea green chiffon, feeling the forbidden desire tremble through her.

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