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Shaye Areheart Books
November 2008
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Featuring: Jamie McClintock; Nate Goddard
400 pages
ISBN: 0307393658
EAN: 9780307393654
Hardcover
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If thereโs one point that Jamie McClintock and Nate Goddard can agree upon, itโs that love is overrated. Jamie doesnโt have time for it. Nate doesnโt need it. And they certainly donโt want it from each other.
Jamie, a struggling free-spirited artist, is a devoted single mother who hasnโt been in a serious relationship since her boyfriend abandoned her after their son was born. Nate, a charismatic jet-setting salesman, is widowed and estranged from his father and five-year-old son, Christopher. Jamie would rather glue glitter to pinecones than go out on a date. Nate spends most of his nights wooing his clients. Then one afternoon Nateโs father drops dead of a heart attack. In that moment, their highly guarded worlds collide.
When Nate shows up at his childhood home to settle the estate and reclaim his son, he discovers that Jamie has been living in the Connecticut farmhouse as his fatherโs roommate. Mistrustful of each otherโs motives, Nate and Jamie bicker about everything from childrenโs nicknames to Jamieโs fashion choices to Nateโs home renovation methods. It doesnโt help that Christopher prefers Jamie to his absentee father.
But after the funeral, Nate and Jamie begin to see each other in a more forgiving light. Nate, traveling to sales conferences all over the country with a sullen Christopher in tow, learns he canโt breeze his way through single parenthood. Jamie, who has moved back in with her sister, wonders at the wisdom of her unconventional choices as a woman with a child to support. And both begin to realize they donโt know as much about love as they thought. Still wounded by past heartbreak and sorrow, can they learn to trust each other and open their hearts?
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