Beauty Queen (the Fancy Lives Of The Lear Sisters)

Overview: Julia London introduces readers to the glamorous Lear family, whose dying patriarch has vowed to teach his spoiled, pampered daughters to appreciate the important things in life-like love... Former Miss Texas Rebecca Lear knows a thing or two about looking perfect--even when her life is anything but. When her no-good husband leaves her for another woman, the fairy-tale illusion shatters. Heartbroken, Rebecca heads to Austin to pick up the pieces of her life, volunteering for a friend's political campaign in a desperate attempt to start anew. When she clashes with a gorgeous, hot-shot lawyer over campaign strategies, Rebecca realizes she's in way over her head. And maybe that's a good thing ... Matt Parrish is the toughest litigator in Texas--and a notorious heartbreaker. When he agrees to help out with his former fraternity brother's campaign, he never imagined he'd be stuck working with an ex-beauty queen. There's no denying she's beautiful ... and sweet and funny and smarter than anyone gives her credit for. But men like Matt don't fall in love with women like Rebecca, no matter how hot the flames of passion burn between them ..

Three glamorous sisters live up to the last-wish demands of a dying patriarch, and compete for that elusive dream called love. This imaginative update of Shakespeare's King Lear is a hit with the critics: