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An irresistible bachelor Item Preview. remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. EMBED for wordpress. com hosted blogs and archive. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! verso "Ballantine Books contemporary romance"--Spine. Last night he'd been the successful bidder at the Hall Foundation's lavish gala. The painting was John Singleton Copley's masterful rendering of Nathaniel Walker, a Revolutionary War hero and one of Jack's most prominent ancestors. He'd paid almost five million dollars for it, but he'd have gone higher. The painting should never have left the family and he was the only one who could afford to get it back. Which would have been a surprise to anyone other than his immediate relatives. Since the day his father had gone discreetly bankrupt, Jack had been shelling out his hard-earned money to protect and fortify his family's legacy.
To be properly sustained, the proud heritage and luxurious lifestyle of the Walkers required a tremendous, unceasing river of cash. Among the gene pool, however, there was a dearth of earners and a plethora of spenders. Jack was on the short list of the former. His father's poor asset management and the financial realities of keeping up the Walker Theme Park had helped to ensure that he didn't turn into yet another useless blueblood. Instead, he was a hard-hearted, competitive SOB who had a reputation for winning at all costs. It had been an evolution his father, Nathaniel James Walker VI, had never approved of, but then the man's opinions and choices had usually been poor in Jack's opinion.
Nathaniel Six, as he'd been known, was the epitome of the Old Guard philanthropist. He felt there was only one proper thing to do with money: Give it away. A gentleman simply didn't tarnish his hands with the ugly business of making the stuff. It was an entitled way of looking at life, and one that had resulted in his father being much celebrated by the universities, libraries, and museums that were the fortunate recipients of his largesse. Unfortunately, all that philanthropy had also landed him dead broke by the time Jack was twenty-five. The painting had been one of the first things sold to keep up the charade of limitless wealth.
Although Nathaniel Six had been dead for almost five years, Jack could clearly imagine how conflicted his old man would have been at the first Nathaniel's return. The patriarch's picture was back in the family, but thanks only to Jack's dirty hands. What a catch, he thought, thinning his lips. Shaking himself free of the past, Jack figured he shouldn't be quite so pleased with himself. He'd got the painting, all right. And the goddamn dream. He'd gone to preview the piece at the Hall Foundation before the auction, expecting to quickly verify it was in reasonable shape and move along. He'd done the former, but in the process had met the art conservationist who'd been keeping him up ni ghts ever since.
He'd first seen her as she'd been backing out of an office. She'd turned around, her deep red hair swinging over her shoulders, and their eyes had locked. He'd been intrigued, as any man would have been, but it wasn't like she'd struck him dumb with her charms. His old friend, Grace Woodward Hall, president of the Foundation, had introduced them. The woman, Callie Burke, was an art conservationist and on a whim, he'd invited her to come with them to view the painting. Standing over the canvas, he'd been struck by her thorough commentary on the condition of the painting and her assessment of what needed to be done to properly care for it.
He'd also liked the way she'd looked at the portrait. Her eyes had clung to his ancestor's face, as if she were utterly entranced. When he'd asked if she might like to conserve the work, though, she hadn't seemed interested and they'd gone their separate ways. At least until his head had hit the pillow that night. He'd laughed off the dream at first, pleased to find that at the age of thirty-eight his sex drive was as high as it had always been. With each passing night, however, he lost more of his sense of humor. He'd decided the one saving grace was that they'd never meet again, so eventually he'd forget about her. But then last evening, after his successful bid at the auction, his friend Grace had brought up the woman again. Grace had urged him to follow up with this Callie Burke, stopping just short of asking him to do it as a personal favor to her.
Evidently, Grace felt confident that Ms. Burke could do the work and pushed him to look into the conservationist's background so he'd know just how talented she was. By the end of the evening, he'd agreed to play along though he still had no idea why it was so important to his friend. Looking out over the city, he figured that he'd check into the conservationist's background tomorrow, and then he'd go find her and ask her again. He wasn't much for giving people second chances, but maybe now was a good time to give it a try. He had to admit he'd been rather touched by Grace's ardent support of the woman. And the dreams? He wasn't going to worry about them. Hell, he didn't even like redheads. His fiancée. He wove his fingers through hers. But who says I'm hiding anything? He reached up and smoothed the sides down, thinking she wouldn't have stood for that kind of disorder if she'd known about it.
Even in the middle of the night. Blair stared down into his face for a longtime: "Are you rethinking our engagement? That doesn't mean Pm having second thoughts. I keep wondering when I'm going to wake up from the dream. There were a lot of women before me. And it's not just the women. You're a traveler. He's been around the world how many times? Four, now? You've always been restless. She was probably right, though he'd never thought about it before. He did have a seaman's need for freedom, just like his brother, but he'd tempered the drive with his strong will and a healthy dose of avarice. He heard her sigh in the dark. He opened his mouth, not sure what he was going to say, but she put a slender fingertip on his lips. I've always known. There were so many things about her that he liked and respected.
She was a business success in her own right, running a thriving interior decorating company. She had fantastic style and grace. And she was both caring and understanding, two things he was going to have to rely on in the upcoming twelve months. In all likelihood, he was going to run for governor of the commonwealth of Massachusetts and he knew she would handle the stress of his candidacy with the same calm confidence with which she managed everything. He valued her. He enjoyed having her in his life. The fact that he didn't love her was the only thing missing, but he didn't consider it a problem. That particular kind of passion just wasn't something he had in him. For any woman. What's wrong? There's nothing going on that you need to be worried about. She had a way of handling him that he liked. Calming, but not patronizing. I prefer to know bad news sooner rather than later. Jack stared at the ceiling as she slept in his arms. When he finally closed his eyes, visions of the redhead drifted into his mind.
It was just a dream, he told himself. The images, the sensations, had more to do with his libido than some woman he'd met for how long? Ten minutes? Besides, he'd always preferred blonds and he had a loving, wonderful one right here in his arms. He was a man with a plan and nothing was going to change the course of his life. Chapter 2 Callie Burke stepped out into the brisk October wind and pulled up her collar, feeling the rough scratch of it on her neck.
After graduating from law school J. Ward began working in health care in Boston and spent many years as chief of staff for one of the premier academic medical centres in the US. She lives in Kentucky with her husband. An Irresistible Bachelor J. For struggling art conservationist Callie Burke, the chance to restore a world-famous painting is the opportunity of a lifetime - one that no one in her right mind would turn down. However, Callie has serious reservations about working with the painting's owner. Jack Walker is a practical man who runs his life, his empire and his fortune effortlessly. Yet from the moment he met Callie Burke, he wanted her with all the intensity of a first crush. As he gets to know her, the desire blossoms into something more. Now, cocooned in his studio in Boston, Callie will either have to learn to ignore the man and concentrate on the masterpiece, or give in to the kind of passion that can never be captured on canvas. And Jack finds that for the first time in his life he is leading with his heart instead of his head.
Ward never disappoints. I'm saying this after the third time I've read this book. Smartphones and tablets. It syncs automatically with your account and allows you to read online or offline wherever you are. You can listen to audiobooks purchased on Google Play using your computer's web browser. To read on e-ink devices like Kobo eReaders, you'll need to download a file and transfer it to your device. Follow the detailed Help Center instructions to transfer the files to supported eReaders.
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