title: Talking After Midnight
author: Cassidy, Dakota
description: Shields up, sugar -- things in Plum Orchard are about to get real.
  
  Marybell Lyman is notorious for two things:
  
  Her look. The wicked hairstyle, multiple piercings and practiced sneer that say: "Stay back -- I bite."
  
  Her voice. The syrupy lilt that's her bread and butter at Call Girls, the prim little town's flourishing phone-sex company.
  
  Hunky handyman Taggart Hawthorn is mesmerized by the contradiction: such sweet tones inside such a spiky shell! He wants to know more about mysterious Marybell, to hear more of her sexy talk -- all for himself.
  
  But Tag's attentions, delicious as they are, have Marybell panicked. She's been hiding a long time. She's finally got a home, a job and friends she adores. She won't have it all snatched away by another stupid mistake -- like falling in love. So when Marybell's past comes calling, she and the Call Girls will prove no one handles scandals like a Southern girl!