Lady Be good (Wynette Texas, #2)

5 STARS

Lady Emma Wells-Finch is headmistress of St. Gert's School for Girls. Emma is

desperate to create the perfect scandal that will convince the egotistical Duke of Beddington, the main benefactor of her school, that she is not appropriate marriage material. However, while she is trying her best to convince the Duke that she will not make a satisfactory Duchess, she cannot take things too far or he will sell St. Gerts out from under her.

Gorgeous Kenny Traveler - who needs to avoid scandal at all costs - is a world famous, pro-golfer who has been put on suspension by the acting PGA golf commissioner, Dallie a/k/a the "Antichrist", husband of Francesca (SEP's Fancy Pants). When Emma travels to the United States to perform research for an article in the great State of Texas, Francesca arranges for Kenny to "babysit" Emma as a favor to her. Francesca promises to intervene with her husband and convince him to lift Kenny's suspension if all goes well. Emma's strong leadership skills and bossiness combined with Kenny's perceived laziness and great sense of humor makes this a fun read. The Katherine Hepburn/Spencer Tracey type of dialogue between Emma and Kenny is entertaining and immediately hooks you. Five pages into this delightful book I realized I would not be able to put it down. When Emma first meets Kenny, she assumes he is a dim-witted driver who moonlights as a male escort. Kenny is annoyed with her bossy attitude and decides to go along with her misconceptions by telling Emma that he charges $30 a pop to have sex with women. Not only does Emma decide to pay the $30 and have sex with him, Kenny cleverly convinces her to cook his dinner beforehand! This book is full of those misunderstandings that we are all growing tired of, but they are written in SEP's witty and funny style that I truly enjoy. SEP has the ability to take a fun, contemporary romance and put a spin on it that includes an element of sweetness that most authors cannot pull off. The ending was a little far-fetched, but the end justifies the means. Just a side note ... there is a secondary plot that is just as entertaining as the main plot. Kenny's father arranges for Kenny's sister, Tori, (a chick-lit cliche' who can out-cuss and out-talk most men) to marry sexy, uber-geek Dexter O'Connor or he will cut off funding to her emu farm. I loved this subplot and thought it deserved it's own

story - I wanted to read more about Dexter

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