"Second book in Lear sisters series is fun and snappy."

Rebecca Lear, former Miss Texas beauty queen and recent divorcee of one of the wealthiest, well-connected men in Texas, desperately needs a transformation. She has no working credentials, no skills, and certainly no work experience. But right now, she needs a job and a means to begin again, to remake herself into someone she can respect.

Rebecca agrees to become the campaign strategist for an up- and-coming Texas Democrat. Then she meets Matt Parrish, the big-time trial lawyer who's setting up the other half of the campaign. He's the most arrogant, pigheaded, know-it- all she's ever met. And the most gorgeous. Matt knows everything about politics; Rebecca knows nothing. He can talk strategy and demographics; she hasn't even mastered the Internet. These two opposites must craft a brilliant campaign, step by tenuous step, without wrecking their lives, killing each other or setting the room on fire with the passion that boils between them as hot as a Texas night.

BEAUTY QUEEN, the second book of the Lear sisters series, is a good read that crackles with snappy writing.

Reviewed by Heather Heath
Courtesy Old Book Barn Gazette
Posted March 10, 2004

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Three glamorous sisters live up to the last-wish demands of a dying patriarch, and compete for that elusive dream called love. An imaginative update of Shakespeare's King Lear.

Summary

Rebecca, the middle sister of the prominent Lear family, is pretty, privileged, and popular. She even married well. You'd never know it, but the former Miss Texas is a perfectly poised mess. Her marriage is a sham, her life is empty, her friends are shallow...and when her husband leaves her fro another woman, her self-esteem is shattered. But she moves to Austin to pick up the pieces, volunteering as a campaign strategist for a family friend...

Matt Parrish has a reputation for being a tough litigator- and a real heartbreaker. He's just agreed to help an old frat brother with his statewide campaign...but he didn't count on sharing the spotlight with a former beauty queen who just stepped out of a limo from another planet. He thinks she's a socialite with no common sense. She thinks he's an arrogant hot shot lawyer. Neither can deny there's a fire burning between them. But where there's fire, there's smoke-and the smoke might just blind them to the trouble they're about to step straight into...