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Product Description
Jet-setter Katya Morgan believes that love comes in gilt-wrapped packages tied with neat red bows. So when her father disinherits her, her first priority is to get her money and her cushy life back. Meanwhile, having no way to pay the enormous bill she racked up at the Royal Palmetto Hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona, poses a slight problem-and the manager has the gall to suggest the unthinkable: that she pay off her debt by working at the hotel-as a maid...
Not something she ever expected to provide!
Alex Sheridan, the hard-working general manager of the sumptuous Royal Palmetto hotel, doesn't much care for the spoiled Ms. Morgan-at first. But when she dons the uniform and proves her mettle as a housekeeper who cares about more than cold, hard cash, he begins to change his mind. He's got plenty to distract him when a rash of disasters befalls his beloved hotel-disasters that could be the result of a saboteur. It isn't long before Katya finds herself in imminent peril just as Alex is starting to fall for the once-spoiled brat who's acting more and more like a real woman every day...
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1143365 in Books
- Published on: 2003-05-18
- Original language: English
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 336 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Drawing on a formula similar to the one used in her previous book, Record Time, Brandt dishes up another lighthearted office romance touched with humor and suspense. Rich, pampered Katya Morgan finds herself without money, clothes and a means to support herself when her father dies and leaves everything to her stepmother. Katya is determined to come up with enough cash to contest the will and regain her party-girl lifestyle, but first she must find a job. Salvation comes in the form of handsome hotel manager Alex Sheridan, a rescuer of damsels-in-distress who happens to have an opening in housekeeping. As Katya struggles to learn how to clean toilets, ride the bus and make her own food, she strikes up a sexual relationship with Alex that quickly turns serious. The one thing standing in their way is her fear of intimacy. An unlikely subplot involving a hotel saboteur adds little suspense (Brandt's laughable villain brandishes a baseball bat instead of a pistol), and the author's tendency to reiterate her characters' motivations will wear on readers. Overall, however, this is fun, breezy beach reading.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Katya Morgan lives a life most of us can only dream of. In all her 31 years, she has never had to work, pay bills, shop for groceries, or clean her house. Her father sent her off to boarding school after her mother died, and has financed her jet-setting life ever since. When her stepmother breaks the news that her father has died, Katya is understandably saddened. When she finds out she's been completely disinherited, left with no place to live and all her credit cards cancelled, she's outraged. Unable to pay for her hotel room, Katya is forced to work off her bill. Alex Sheridan is confused when Katya's stepmother asks him to give her stepdaughter a job, figuring there's no way someone like Katya would clean toilets, but he soon realizes this rich kid is not what he expected. As Alex helps her out, Katya discovers how the rest of the world lives, and the reader enjoys a fine, funny tale. Maria Hatton
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Review
--Julie Ortolon, author of Lead Me On
"Brandt is an exciting new talent and a gifted author. It will be very difficult waiting for her next book!"--Old Book Barn Gazette
"Brandt's star is on the rise!"--Interludes
