Sweeping the Bride Away

In Sweeping the Bride Away, Dunaway combines a fantasy and a nightmare in one short funny book. The fantasy? The bride-to-be, Cassidy Clayton, finds a man who is not only strong, sensitive and sexy, but incredibly handy around the house. And the nightmare? Her fiance's mother is interfering, commandeering, patronizing, and she lives next-door. Ouch.The heroine's parents are out of town, having left her the task of selling their home. Unfortunately the presale inspection turned up a long list of fix-it jobs, just when (and partly because) her mother-in-law-to-be is pressing to move up the wedding. Cassidy doesn't know any handymen. They just don't come with the territory for an image consultant for CEOs and politicos. Her fiance, preoccupied with his duties as a museum curator, is no help at all.But at the dive where she goes to drown her sorrows with a girlfriend, she finds a sympathetic, and very muscular, shoulder to cry on. Society girls aren't his type, but Blade Frederick knows he can help her. Rather than send an employee from his construction company, he decides to play Mr. Toolbelt himself. His visits to the house don't escape the neighbor's notice. It isn't that she believes Cassidy could be attracted to a blue-collar worker, but her future daughter-in-law must be above reproach.This is a fast fun book to read and put yourself in the heroine's shoes, as she figures out what she really wants. Could there be any doubt?