
What a woman
"After launching her housecleaning company, Manley Maids, one woman is determined to make it on her own. And what a woman she is ... Now that Mary-Alice Catherine Manley--Mac--has her hunky brothers working for her, she can sit back and watch the business roll in. But her new assignment quickly tosses that plan out the window. Mildred, her grandmother's best friend, needs her house cleaned and Gran has volunteered Mac for the job. The problem is Mildred's cocky grandson. He thinks Mac's at his beck and call, but she has a few things to tell him ... aside from how hot he is. Jared Nolan is currently lying low, nursing some broken bones and a bruised ego. The former professional baseball player let himself be used by woman once, and now it could rob him of his beloved career. No woman is ever going to call the shots again, which is why, when the bossy Mac shows up, he's going to show her who's really in charge. He's just not prepared for the undeniable attraction between them. And with the two of them in one house, there's no telling who will come out swinging"--Page 4 of cover.
Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Fiction, Romance. 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.
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What the reading experience may hold
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Fiction · Romance
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Balanced tone · Urgent pace
A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.
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- ISBN-13
- 978-0-4252-6832-2
- Language
- English
- Edition record
- OL26458415M
A more thoughtful way into this book
This guide uses the edition details and category signals above to help you choose deliberately. It does not replace the author's work or a full review.
A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.
Begin with its place in Fiction, then notice where the book resists that label.
Read for connection, not completion.
Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.
Three questions to carry with you
- What does the central character want, and what do they misunderstand about that desire?
- Which detail or relationship changes how you interpret the story?
- What feeling or question does the book leave with you after the plot moves on?
Editorial framework by Wesley Bryan, BookenDeX Founder and Editor.







