By Susan Elizabeth Phillips
SHE JUMPED at the again OF a foul BOY'S HARLEY AND HIS RENEGADE DREAM.... in one, impulsive act, Susannah Faulconer, the daughter of 1 of the country's strongest industrialists, follows her center and unearths herself severed from her relations and every thing popular. As a funky San Francisco socialite, she'd recognized precisely the way to behave, yet now she's a lone girl in an international of men...and there is not any etiquette publication on the earth which could educate her the right way to live to tell the tale. the boys are rebels, made up our minds to tackle company the US with bold and imaginative and prescient, and so they aren't going to permit her play by means of solid women' ideas. there is Sam, the charismatic visionary, on a rocket-driven journey to glory. And Mitch, the stricken company genius with out time for a wealthy socialite, regardless of how appealing. jointly, they're going to strength Susannah into the largest problem of her existence as she exams her braveness -- and her love -- in a daring scan that might switch all of them endlessly. Come proportion a wonderful, heart-stopping love tale, and meet the unforgettable girl known as sizzling Shot as she discovers a keenness so wealthy, so delicate, that she is going to be completely and endlessly reworked.
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Beneath a Juliet cap, she wore her hair swept neatly away from her face and simply arranged at the nape of her neck. The style was a bit severe for a bride, but it somehow suited her. Instead of an elaborate wedding gown, she wore a tea-length dress of antique lace. The open mandarin collar revealed a slim, aristocratic neck encircled by the lustrous five-strand heirloom pearl choker that was giving her so much difficulty. Everything about her bespoke wealth, breeding, and an old-fashioned sense of constraint out of place in a modern twenty-five-year-old woman.
Tonight is Father's fifty-eighth birthday party. " "He didn't have to. " Susannah was certain of no such thing, but she had to end this estrangement between them. Right now her sister was living in a shabby one-bedroom apartment with a would-be rock singer named Conti Dove. Paige impatiently pushed her hair away from her face. "Don't you ever get tired of running around playing Miss Goody-Two-Shoes? " Susannah's impassive expression gave no hint of how much she disliked hearing those tough, ugly words coming from her sister's lovely mouth.
A messiah on a motorcycle stood to her left, promising nothing. With a soft cry, proper Susannah Faulconer chose her destiny. BOOK ONE THE VISION Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. — Goethe Chapter 1 Susannah's real father wasn't Joel Faulconer, but an Englishman named Charles Lydiard, who met Susannah's mother when he visited New York City in 1949. Katherine "Kay" Bennett was the beautiful socialite daughter of a recently deceased New York City financier.