Lip Service

SHE WAS BORN WITH A SILVER SPOON IN HER MOUTH. HE WAS BORN WITH A CHIP ON HIS SHOULDER. CAN THEY EVER SEE EYE TO EYE? Beautiful Schuyler Grant is a blueblood, from the top of her flaming auburn hair to the tip of her pedicured toes. Trace Ballinger is a high-powered attorney who rose from his blue-collar roots only to serve the rich residents of the historic Hudson River's gothic mansions-the very ones whose wealth and snobbery he detests. Trace has been hired to execute "Crazy" Cora Grant's estate, including Grantwood, the mysterious crumbling castle she has left to her niece Schuyler. But Trace can barely hide his contempt for the Grants, a rich dynasty who exploited thousands of coal-mining families such as his own. Nor can he deny his growing desire for Schuyler, a pampered and privileged young woman he finds himself unwittingly, maddeningly attracted to. Now, as Trace and Schuyler are drawn together, they begin to uncover the shocking secrets tucked away in the darkest cracks of the creaking Grantwood, and to understand why the near-death "accidents" that keep occurring are no accident at all. And amidst all the danger, they must unravel the most burning mystery of all: can a blue-blooded beauty and a blue-collar boy find love and happiness, or is their relationship strictly... LIP SERVICE

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Romance, Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.