Ella es tan dulce [Paperback]

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (Author), Ersi Samara (Translator)

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Publication Date: October 28, 2006

Sugar Beth Carey has managed to make herself hated by all of her old friends in Parrish, the small Mississippi village to which she had vowed never to return. But the people in Parrish don't forgive and forget, and when Sugar Beth reluctantly returns after her third divorce, her old friends see an opportunity to humiliate her endlessly. Then there's Colin Byrne, whose career she had tried to destroy—a modern-day prince planning the type of revenge that could bring a modern-day princess to her knees. Yet none of Sugar Beth's haters could possibly account for the strength of a woman who has learned lessons of survival time and time again.

 

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About the Author

Susan Elizabeth Phillips is the author of Dream a Little Dream, First Lady, Lady Be Good, and Tuscany for Two. She is the recipient of the Romance Writers of America RITA award and was awarded a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award. She lives in Chicago.

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Ediciones B; Tra edition (October 28, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 8466621156
• ISBN-13: 978-8466621151
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,129,670 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Disgraced beauty queen returns home, July 14, 2006

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This review is from: Ella es tan dulce (Paperback)

Thrice married Sugar Beth Carey was once the town golden girl of Parrish, Mississippi, but all her past misdeeds and recriminations have caught up with her as she returns to her hometown for the first time in 15 years. Disinherited by the father whose love she always sought but never achieved, she returns to collect an inheritance from her aunt. Instead of the family estate, she is relegated to the carriage house, an abandoned depot, and a valuable work of art that she must find first.

Just about everyone in town is looking forward to her return to even old scores. No one is happier to see her squirm than her former teacher, Colin. Fifteen years earlier, Sugar Beth accused Colin of making a pass at her in order to deflect blame for an embarrassing incident she instigated against her arch nemesis, Winnie Davis. Colin, now a successful writer, resides in her former estate. With no one willing to give her a job, she's stuck working as Colin's maid (which makes for some of the most humorous passages in the novel, particularly when she calls him a prissy Brit and questions his sexuality), and in a turn of events, it is Winne that is the belle of the town.

While Colin entertains revenge fantasies as payback, she disappoints him by rising above it all and swallowing her pride, thereby taking the joy from him. Colin finds himself smitten with this new Sugar Beth, and her former home town realizing that she actually may have grown up and deserves to be forgiven for her past sins.

I never expected to like this book as much as I did, which makes it all the more refreshing. I found it to be captivating and kept me glued to the final page.