num_pages: 368
description: #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood returns with a novel of family drama suspense andof courseromance. Peyton Lockhart and her sisters have inherited Bishops Cove a small luxurious oceanfront resort but it comes with a condition: The girls must run the resort for one year and show a profitonly then will they own it. A graduate of a prestigious French culinary school Peyton has just lost her job as a food critic. Out of work and in a bad place personally a year doing something completely different sounds wonderful. There are countless challenges and too many people who want to stop the sisters from succeeding. Among them are Peytons contentious cousins who are outraged that they didnt inherit the resort as well as a powerful group of land developers who have been eyeing the coveted beachfront property. Its soon apparent to Peyton that their efforts are being sabotaged but she refuses to let the threats scare heruntil shes nearly killed. She calls on her childhood friend and protector Finn MacBain now with the FBI and asks for his help. He saved her life once; he can do it again.
language: English
title: Hotshot
publisher: Berkley