On Amanda’s 30th birthday, the woman hires a gigolo to teach her the woozies. Plus, she does not want a publisher with such ill-repute as Jack to publish her stuff, thankyouverymuch. Excuse me – she, a series novelist? How undignified. And he believes that Amanda’s unpublished book An Unfinished Lady will make a profitable serial novel.Īmanda is aghast.
He publishes “sensational” (read: sex and ‘confessional’ memoirs) stuff that the good people of England can’t get enough of. Jack Devlin is the guy in question, on his way to being one of the richest man in England on account of his publishing house. He offers her a deal: if she lets him publish her first (unpublished) book, he will offer her an advance of sums unheard of: five thousand pounds.
One day, a dark, handsome young man appears at her doorsteps, madly enthralled by her writings and in lust with the wildness in meek-mannered Amanda that must have inspired all the passion in her books. Picture this: Amanda Briars is a 30-year old author of what she perceives as “quality romances” (think Jane Austen with some PG-rated eroticism).
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