Evening gowns and tuxedos decorated a hall set for romance. Their eyes should've met across a crowded room ...but a stuffed partridge on her shoulder blocked his view. Pierce Grayson's gained fame and fortune turning ruins and rubble into a fresh start for natural disaster victims around the world. Success has its perks and its price and the billionaire inventor is assaulted daily by hopeful Mrs. Graysons who take the term "chained to my desk" a bit TOO literally, Pierce has given up on finding a woman who could like him for who he is, much less love him. ...Until he's smitten by a woman so loyal, she'll walk the aisle in cartoon plumage for an impish little sis with an axe to grind. After a good start, Pierce wins a bet for charity, but gambles the relationship, messing up big time with talented muralist, Allison Stanford. Mistakes were made, but he's unwilling to lose her so easily. The man with a plan pulls out all the stops and envisions the ultimate fantasy apology date for two; limos, Lear jets & luxury dining. It'd be perfect, but he's read Allison wrong. Allison's Mema takes a fancy to the lovelorn engineer and decides Pierce requires special education on women in general (and Allison in particular) before he earns a second chance with her granddaughter. Suddenly the man who helps OTHERS for a living, is in need of aid The feisty granny teaches the multinational CEO a thing or two about negotiations and parlays her brief tutoring session into a free, extended French vacation with ALL the perks. (If Pierce and Allison were half as smart as everyone thinks they are, they'd just surrender to Mema's will from the start.) When they don't, it's a wild, laugh out loud, ride on the romance train; or, as Mema would say, "trickier'n carvin' a turkey with three dogs underfoot." Snuggle up and escape the craziness in your life as Pierce and Allison navigate the insanity of theirs in this laugh out loud clean read, a book worth reading again by award-winning author, K.D.Harp. K.D. Harp writes characters of character in Books Worth Reading Again. Big Books- Only SERIOUS Readers Need Apply For more information, please visit kdharpbooks.com for samples of other books, blogs, and social media links.