This is Kelsey Patterson with the Sioux City Public Library and you’re listening to Check It Out.
Today, I’m recommending seasoned romance writer HelenKay Dimon’s latest, Moorewood Family Rules.
One day a con man met an heiress, wooed her, married her, had two kids...and kept on conning. Jillian Moorewood is the oldest child from that meet-cute-gone-wrong marriage. She’s the stable one. The sensible and dependable one. The one who protects and fixes. Jillian’s also the one who went to prison to save their sorry butts. Now, 39 months later, she’s out and more than a little pissed.
Finally home she finds the scheming, dysfunctional clan in full family fleecing mode. They all claim they didn’t really agree to Jillian’s previous go-legit-or-else ultimatum before she went to prison. They all viewed it as a “suggestion” then ignored it. So, business as usual. But Jillian is done with the lies and fakery. She demands the whole messed-up crew clean up its act, and this time she’s not kidding—and Jillian has the leverage to make it happen.
Problem is, her life is in shambles, but with the help of a crooked but loveable great aunt, a bodyguard (who is a nice and unexpected romantic surprise after three years in prison), and a few allies (all working undercover of course), Jillian starts to put her life back together. She kicks out a few mooching relatives living under her roof, sets limits on everyone’s access to the money, ducks from their various attacks, and sees if that bodyguard is maybe interested in sticking around a while.
Fans of Knives Out and the Oceans franchise will delight in this hilariously twisty novel.
Check out Moorewood Family Rules and other offbeat fiction like it at the Sioux City Public Library.
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