Chicago Stars quarterback Dean Robillard is the luckiest man in the
world: a bona-fide sports superstar and the pride of the NFL with a
profitable side career as a buff billboard model for End Zone underwear.
But life in the glory lane has started to pale, and Dean has set off on
a cross-country trip to figure out what's gone wrong. When he hits a
lonely stretch of Colorado highway, he spies something that will shake
up his gilded life in ways he can't imagine. A young woman . . . dressed
in a beaver suit.
Blue Bailey is on a mission to murder her ex. Or at least inflict
serious damage. As for the beaver suit she's wearing . . . Is it her
fault that life keeps throwing her curveballs? Witness the expensive
black sports car pulling up next to her on the highway and the Greek god
stepping out of it.
Blue's career as a portrait painter is the perfect job for someone who
refuses to stay in one place for very long. She needs a ride, and
America's most famous football player has an imposing set of wheels.
Now, all she has to do is keep him entertained, off guard, and fully
clothed before he figures out exactly how desperate she is.
But Dean isn't the brainless jock she imagines, and Blue--despite her
petite stature--is just about the toughest woman Dean has ever met.
They're soon heading for his summer home where their already complicated
lives and inconvenient attraction to each other will become entangled
with a charismatic but aging rock star; a beautiful fifty-two-year-old
woman trying to make peace with her rock and roll past; an
eleven-year-old who desperately needs a family; and a bitter old woman
who hates them all.
As the summer progresses, the wandering portrait artist and the charming
football star play a high-stakes game, fighting themselves and each
other for a chance to have it all.
Natural Born Charmer is for everyone who's ever thought about leaving
their old life in the dust and never looking back. New York Times
bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips takes us home again . . .
and shows us where love truly lives
