Sweet Talking Man
A Novel
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Publisher Description
Betina Krahn, the New York Times bestselling author of The Soft Touch and The Perfect Mistress, casts her beguiling spell once more with this warm and witty love story....
She was an independent woman-with only one weakness... an irresistible downtown man...
An immovable uptown lady... rich suffragette Beatrice Von Furstenberg was tough enough to trade stocks on Wall Street and smart enough to resist the temptation of passion. Adamant about women being independent-and without a romantic bone in her lovely body-she had sternly refused to give her moonstruck sixteen-year-old ward permission to wed an eighteen-year-old suitor. Now the desperate teens have dreamed up a mock robbery and a daring rescue to change Beatrice's mind.
Attorney Connor Barrow, a rogue of an Irishman with a silver tongue, remembers all too well the burning desires of youth. So he agrees to help in a crazy plan that will land him in a world of trouble. Suddenly he is responsible for the most influential lady in the city being locked up in a brothel, furious and threatening his ruin. Neither of them expects that first breathless kiss-a deal that would make the devil himself blush-and, most of all, the ways love can change a man's mind and open a woman's heart....
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In 1890s Manhattan, young lovers Priscilla and Jeffrey are forbidden to meet by Priscilla's aunt and guardian, Beatrice von Furstenberg, a wealthy suffragette who refuses to let her 16-year-old charge throw her life away. Priscilla persuades Jeffrey to have Beatrice robbed, reasoning that her frosty aunt will warm up to the boy if he connives to rescue her from the crime. Alas, Jeffrey botches the rescue, and Beatrice ends up in a brothel. She's sprung by Jeffrey's uncle, Connor Sullivan Barrow, a handsome charmer and rising politician. Never one to miss an opportunity, Beatrice uses her leverage (she knows that Connor helped his hapless nephew hire the robbers, a fact that would certainly kill his candidacy if it were known) to force Connor into championing women's suffrage during his run for Congress. Connor now has two problems: a cause that's treated with contempt by his backers, and a growing passion for the formidable Beatrice. The story lags in the middle when a business subplot, rather than any real romantic conflict, takes over. But happily, Krahn's warm, energetic style and the charm of her turn-of-the-century Manhattan setting--complete with Tammany Hall politicos, ladies of the evening and a glimpse or two of Susan B. Anthony--carry the book to a lively and satisfying conclusion.
