The Disengagement Ring

by Clodagh Murphy (Author)

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  Paperback
  2009

  $4.38

  Kate thinks she's ready to settle down with boyfriend Brian, though their relationship is far from perfect. But then a tempting job offer from charming family friend Will gives her other ideas ...

  After a series of hopeless relationships, Kate O'Neill is ready to settle down, so when her New Age Shaman boyfriend Brian finally asks her to marry him, she accepts. Even though her clannish, close-knit family disapprove of him, Kate knows that deep down Brian loves her.

  
  

  But Kate's eccentric actress mother, Grace, is determined to prevent Kate from making the biggest mistake of her life. She hatches a plot to scupper the engagement, enlisting the help of the whole family, even roping in Will Sargent, manager of mega cool rock-band Walking Wounded, and unrequited love of Kate's life, in the hope that he can provide a change of direction for Kate's affections.

  
  

  Reluctantly enlisted, Will offers Kate a job cooking for Walking Wounded, while they are holed up in Tuscany working on their new album.

  
  

  As temperatures in the kitchen begin to heat up, will Kate realise her feelings for Will are stronger than ever, or does Grace's plan backfire and send Kate straight back to Brian?

• Used

  Paperback
  2009

  $5.90

  A summer cooking for an ultra-cool rock band sounds like the job of Kate O'Neill's dreams. So, when Will Sargent, manager of Walking Wounded, asks her to cook for the band while they record their new album in Tuscany, she jumps at the chance. Even though it means spending three months apart from her fiance Brian, it gives her a chance to get away from her interfering, eccentric family who've made it all too clear that they don't approve of her engagement.

  
  
  

  But little does Kate know that the job is all part of a plot hatched by her mother, Grace, to scupper Kate's wedding plans. Brian, a wannabe New Age shaman, has never fit in with the larger-than-life O'Neills and Grace is convinced that Will, old family friend and unrequited love of Kate's life, could provide a change of direction for Kate's affections. But Grace doesn't count on Will's glamorous, model girlfriend, Tina who is determined to hang on to him at all costs.

  
  

  As the long, hot Tuscan days drift by, temperatures in the villa start to heat up. Will Kate finally learn to stand up to her meddlesome mother or will she find her feelings for Will are stronger than ever?