The Accessory: Christopher Newman Writing as Pete O'Brien - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

In the wake of a costly gaffe committed by his aging literary agent, an affair with his editor, and a major fraud perpetrated by the brother-in-law who was managing his money, Philip Maguire, bestselling author of the popular Del Colton series of suspense thrillers, finds himself with his writing career in a shambles, divorced, and almost destitute. Forced by those circumstances to essentially start his life all over again, he has moved from a life of luxury in New York to Lexington, Kentucky, where he’s bought a modest little Craftsman bungalow in an older neighborhood close to downtown, and found employment as a fine-finish carpenter, the trade he once worked at before getting his first big break in the publishing world.

Enter Gwen Sinclair, the beautiful, much younger wife of Texas oil billionaire Ross Sinclair, owner Crossbow, a famous thoroughbred horse farm where Phil has been hired to finish out a new bloodstock library being appended to the main house. Fascinated to have “Del Colton’s dad” right there working on the premises, Gwen becomes determined to find Phil a new woman, plucked from her circle of multi-millionaire divorcee and widow friends. When she invites three of the most eligible of them to Lexington to meet him, he thinks it’s all great fun until Christine Nygaard, a gorgeous forty-something widow of a shipping magnate who bequeathed her half-a-billion dollars when he died, makes him an offer he doesn’t think he can refuse. As an attractive woman in her position, Christine is plagued by a legion of fortune-hunting suitors from all over the globe and needs a credible man to masquerade as her new life partner. Phil has all the bona fides she is looking for, and she is willing to compensate him handsomely if he agrees to take the gig. It will involve him co-habitating with her for most of the year in her palatial beachfront home in Naples, Florida, an exotic dream car for him to sport around in, international travel and fine dining in her company, and playing lots of tennis, but will also afford him an annual allowance and a thirty-day yearly vacation where he can go anywhere and do whatever he wants, no questions asked. It would be nothing like the life he once lived, but at least he’d be back in the chips again, right? Heck, it might even enable him to once again kick-start his writing career.

Christine is as anxious to have him agree to that role as he is to be flush again, and her private jet is waiting. It doesn’t give him a lot of time to consider what the reality of being a kept man might actually entail, and so he jumps in with both feet without taking the time to consider what could possibly go wrong.

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