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The Real Thing: A Story of Sex, Sapphires and Second Chances
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $27.95
ISBN13: 9780595669080
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Jan 18 2005
Pages: 284
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
But when her father, world-renowned chef, Claude Roget, dies in the bed of his much younger lover du jour, he puts Julie's life and the lives of both her godfather, Walter Siegal, and her former fiancé, Sandy Fielding, in peril.
Claude's purchase of the fabled Brunei sapphires has plunged his L.A. catering company into bankruptcy and caused Walter to borrow an excessive amount of money from the petite and melancholy Don Dominic Doménico. Now the lovesick don wants the sapphires for his wife, Luisa, hoping they'll secure her love. But where are the sapphires? Only Claude knew for sure.
The search for the sapphires brings Sandy and Julie together again as they scour Beverly Hills and Provence, unaware that one of Don Nico's employees has an agenda all his own, or that Walter Siegal has embarked upon a quest to kill the don.
A comedic, over-the-top novel, The Real Thing shows us that love, like the sapphires, can often be found when we simply open our eyes and look.
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