Beauty and the Beach (FALLING FOR SUMMER) by Gracie Ruth Mitchell EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Status: Available for Free Download
- Authors: Gracie Ruth Mitchell
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
- Format: PDF / EPUB
- Size: 3.4 MB
- Price: Free
Phoenix 
I may be a single man, and I may be in possession of a good fortune. No
matter what universal acknowledgment says, however, I have never been in
want of a wife.
I spent most of my life happily focusing on topics other than marriage. I
figured it would happen when it happened, if at all. There are plenty of
other things to occupy my time.
Leave it to Mavis to throw a wrench in my plans—or my lack of plans.
After receiving the unwelcome news that my grandmother expects me
to marry if I want to inherit the family company, I spend the first two weeks
of June trying to figure out how to find a wife. And as it turns out, there are
a lot of people who have a lot of opinions about who I should marry and
when.
My mother would love for me to choose someone beautiful from a
wealthy background, someone who can be her informant on the inner life of
her son—someone who’ll be happy to provide for my mother financially. A
trophy wife, devoted to me but equally devoted to my mother; that’s what
she wants for me. The number of women she’s tried to put on my radar
exceeds the number of women I have the mental space to keep track of.
My uncle Clarence and his son Lawrence, on the other hand, would
prefer for me not to get married at all. I’ve seen them a handful of times
since Mavis’s marriage decree, and they both look a little meaner than usual
now that a new stipulation is in the works.
Lawrence has an on-again, off-
again woman—I don’t think I can accurately call her a girlfriend, because
that implies a degree of monogamy I know Lawrence to be incapable of—
that he’ll probably end up marrying so he can try to inherit instead of me.
Neither he nor Clarence are above scare tactics and dirty hands to get what
they want, so I have to keep an eye out for them.
Honestly, I’m not sure I’m much different. As callous as it may sound,
right now I care more about inheriting Butterfield Paper and Sanitary than I
do about finding a wife I love.
Because I’ll have time for romance later—
but this is likely the only chance I’ll get to take over the company. Mavis
has been in and out of the hospital for months; I just visited her there, as a
matter of fact. She was sleeping, thank goodness, but at least I can say I’ve
done my duty as her grandson.
Once again, it may sound callous, but any moment could be her last.
So I need to get married quickly. Now. Yesterday.
Love can wait.
For More Read Download This Book
EPUB