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Summary: Spunky and bold! Highly recommended
Review: Cindy Harris' new series Dublin Dreams brings together four penniless women who only have their anonymous benefactor in common. In addition for renovating their new homes and cultivating the central garden, their financial obligations are miraculously released. In this first segment, the wife of a dissolute gambler meets her match when she gets A BIRGHT IDEA.In the year since her husband's death, Dolly's life has become characterized by duplicity. Appearances of opulence when visitors call don't reveal the lack of light in the evenings, or the shortages in the pantry. Now it's only a matter of time before the bill collectors catch up to her, or the bank forecloses on the house. All because they were nearly bankrupt, without Dolly's knowledge, when Dick Creevy took out her husband in a boxing ring. Now she's going to train in Dick's academy, disguised a boy, and seek her revenge against the man she blames for ruining her life. It isn't that Dick likes to fight so much as he needs to. He only finds respite when he's found the numbness that only a good pounding can produce. Dublin society doesn't seem to know what to make of his incongruities: he radiates strength yet there is nothing savage about him. His beautiful hands belie the damage they can inflict. Indeed, his myriad incongruities throw Dolly quite a blow. She's prepared to hate him, not be attracted to him. In her persona "Doll Face," she gradually winds Dick's respect. Harris creates a wonderful and engaging tale in A BIRGHT IDEA. The disguise is well crafted, providing marvelous tension, as each character battles mutual, apparently inappropriate, attraction. While the pace slows as other characters are introduced for other parts of the series, it quickly picks back up, providing a satisfying conclusion. Indeed, the reader will find it impossible to put A BRIGHT IDEA down, because of wanting to see how Dolly bests Dick. Highly recommended.
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