"delightful "King Lear" contemporary Texas romance"

Everyone believes that Rebecca Reynolds lives the life of a princess with her being the middle daughter of the immense Lear holdings. However, the mother of a small son, her gilded cage crashes when her spouse leaves her for a younger model and her father announces he is dying from cancer. Her confidence smashed to smithereens, Rebecca looks for employment, but no one wants a former Miss Texas whose only experience is that of arm candy to her father and her husband.

However that changes when State Senator Tom Masters asks her to help him with his campaign to become the Lieutenant Governor. Also working on the campaign is attorney Mike Parrish. As Mike and Rebecca work closely together, respect surfaces that soon turn to love. However, she begins to uncover questionable practices that if surfaced will derail the individual who deserves Rebecca's loyalty for giving her a chance to prove herself, but she wonders what will be the cost to her new found soul?

The second "King Lear" contemporary Texas romance is intriguing due to a delightful heroine. Though Mike is a fine protagonist struggling with the direction his legal partnership seems to be heading, the enjoyable story line belongs to Rebecca. She remakes herself into someone she can respect once she realizes how useless her life has been. Though her spouse comes across as a womanizing dirty rat who makes no time for his son, fans will appreciate this second chance at life and love story that works because Rebecca makes it so.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted March 23, 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...