My Fair Gentleman

My Fair Gentleman
Jan Freed

Jan Freed writes with spice and flair! An exciting new voice in contemporary romance.–Susan WiggsIt's My Fair Lady in reverse!Catherine Eliza Hamilton and her fiancé have a bet on. At stake? Catherine's professional future. To win, she needs to pass of a man of her fiancé's choosing as a wealthy "blue blood." For just one night.Sound simple?It's about as simple as making a silk purse out of a pig's ear. In fact, her fiancé takes her to a dive called The Pig's Gut to find the perfect "subject." His name is Joe Tucker–he's the handsome ex-baseball player who's hell-raising in the bar.Now all Catherine has to do is convince Joe that this bet can change his life as well as her own. She also has to convince Joe's twelve-year-old daughter. And keep Joe from treating the whole bet as a joke, with Catherine as the punch line.And she can't fall in love with Joe….

Table of Contents

Cover Page (#ufde5b12e-e3a5-5c1a-a265-22b9da31a7c8)

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About The Author (#u393d4438-cd5d-50c6-9e8b-3ce906bb91ba)

Title Page (#u39c739c0-69d5-5de7-adb1-62c22543c4ec)

Dedication (#u28a8e2ba-ea47-5a94-8968-7aa33bb0efab)

CHAPTER ONE (#ubede2356-ce91-5b53-8b8b-cf48a827751e)

CHAPTER TWO (#u687767f3-c7f4-5d47-88cb-7ca4546886fa)

CHAPTER THREE (#u794a837a-f6a9-51e8-931f-4c971b9008b1)

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Special Books by Special Writers The Book:

My Fair Gentleman

A contemporary, provocative and just plain funny story about changing your life—and other people’s. This is a book to be read and reread. A book to cherish.

The Characters:

Catherine Eliza Hamilton. A lady (actually, an engaged lady). A dedicated psychologist who’s in danger of being turned into “the perfect hostess.” Faultlessly polite, compulsively neat, she’s also (of all things) a pool hustler And a woman who takes risks…

Joe Tucker. An ex-baseball player who’s looking for a new job—one that doesn’t entail modeling underwear. A single father who’s never quite picked up the knack of parenting. A man’s man—a woman’s sex object. And definitely not housebroken.

The Author:

Jan Freed first burst onto the Superromance scene in May 1995, and readers can’t stop talking about her! Her first novel—Too Many Bosses—is nominated for three Romantic Times awards, and she’s still getting fan letters about her second. The Texas Way.

“Jan Freed…has a truly gifted light touch with characters who still manage to tug at the reader’s heart.”

—Alexandra Thorn

ABOUT THE AUTHOR (#ulink_56d6e81d-d678-53f2-9b8a-f653c07b69d5)

Jan Freed is proud to write in a genre that “presents a hopeful view of life without diminishing its hardships.” A huge fan of musical theater, Jan enjoyed creating her own Americanized and modernized version of My Fair Lady with the roles reversed. “In writing Catherine and Joe’s story, I realized that the strongest romantic partnerships are forged by a willingness to learn from each other, In other words, mutual respect.”

Jan lives in Texas with her husband and two children. She loves to hear from readers and invites you to write her at P.O. Box 5009-572, Sugar Land, Texas, 77487.

My Fair Gentleman

Jan Freed

www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)

With love and thanks to my parents,

Alta and Vilbry White

For giving me the confidence to try,

a belief in “happily ever after”

and a normal name

CHAPTER ONE (#ulink_69f86c49-d961-5b57-9ad4-c9b0ea7f132e)

CATHERINE ELIZA HAMILTON swallowed hard as the duck à I’orange sitting in her stomach threatened to take wing up her throat. If anyone had told her two hours ago she’d wind up in a dive like The Pig’s Gut, she would have choked on her cognac.

Glancing toward the adjacent bar stool, she noted her fiancé’s expression and mentally cringed. Carl was feeling particularly smug tonight. And why not? Driving from the posh Houston restaurant to this small industrial town had been a brilliant tactical move.

She should have set recruiting rules of course. Or at least tried to slant the odds in her favor. Instead, she’d let anger overcome a mind trained in the science of emotional processes. Some psychologist she was. No wonder Carl had seemed amused at dinner by the idea of her establishing a private counseling practice. She’d “counseled” herself into a situation Freud would have sold his id to analyze. Catherine sniffed in self-disgust.