Josephina "Joie" Harrington just blew her future with her fiancée, in front of everyone at the tarmac, where the private jet was due to depart for Paris. And all she wanted to do was get the sizzle back. She has spent her time orchestrating a Manhattan social front to ensure that Wilson's career-making moment went off without a hitch. Now after she and her little pink lace panties have embarrassed him, he has dumped her, deciding to do it now rather than after they were in Paris where her parents were there for support as planned. Crushed, this little socialite takes a detour and heads for Sugar, Georgia where she has inherited an historical piece of property from her deceased Aunt Letty, the only person who truly understood her and promised her she'd find her wings some day and fly.

PGA Masters golfer Brett McGraw is Sugar's hero. His brothers Cal and Jace are also loved by all, possessing a special admiration in the community, especially sexually for all the women. Caught with his derriere captured in print along with a naked heiress, it's time to down play his popularity and head home to keep low for a couple of months until the FedEx Cup.

All hell breaks loose when Brett is again acquainted with his childhood friend Josie and his feisty grandma Hattie, who raised the McGraw boys after their parents' deaths, and her co-horts get involved. Never able to keep their noses out of everybody's business, the gun totting and extremely pushy Sunday School Mafia (Sugar ladies Baptist Choir) uses their devious wiles to attempt driving Joie from renovating the Fairchild House and restoring her childhood dreams in honor of her Aunt.

The community is all competing to raise the most money for a new children's wing at the local hospital and Joie tries to help. However, Joie will not get involved with a famous womanizer and this womanizer changes his stripes as he gets totally involved with the child- turned-adult. Two people desiring different views of life just isn't going to work and Joie stands to lose her dream when she learns of Brett's deception for this balls-to-the-wall girl who can't trust a man that doesn't believe in her.

This Sugar, Georgia novel is a fascinating read. Once I picked up SUGAR'S TWICE AS SWEET I was hooked! Joie creates more havoc than a clown and is such a beautiful and caring woman. I loved the escapades she innocently finds herself in at every turn. . Believe me, this will keep your mind working to keep up with all the mishaps this girl can get into.

SUGAR'S TWICE AS SWEET is the first in this series. . Marina Adair always fills me with pleasure when I read her works.

Book Summary

He's trouble she doesn't need . . .

Thanks to a cheating fiancé, Josephina Harrington's perfect life just crashed and burned. Moving in with her overbearing parents is definitely not an option. No, she needs to prove she can make it on her own. And she will-by turning her great-aunt's old plantation house into a destination getaway. She's just not expecting her contractor to be so hands-on-and so totally irresistible.

. . . but everything she wants

Bad-boy golf champion Brett McGraw figured his hometown of Sugar, Georgia was the perfect place to lay low and get his life back up to par. The leggy blonde with a pint-sized pup is the kind of sweet 'n sassy trouble he never saw coming. She doesn't know a nut from a bolt and before long, he's renovating her house . . . as she steals his heart. Can he convince Josephina that his womanizing ways are in the past and he's ready for forever?

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