A Love Built To Last

Whatever Melody Cannon wants, Melody Cannon gets — or least that has been the case for the past eight years. The famous Hollywood stylist is used to giving orders, but when Melody takes an early retirement from Tinseltown and returns home to Washington, D.C., to start a new life, she encounters the irresistible force known as Clayton Reed, a local architect whom she hires to design her new abode. Clayton can think of many words to describe Melody, his childhood nemesis who is now his new client. Unfortunately, none of those words are good. He's a patient man, but even he can't control his temper around her. Despite his dislike for the bossy, hot-tempered vixen, Clayton still feels drawn under her spell. As he designs her new home, he gradually breaks down the defensive walls she has built around her with a passion and love she has never known. Career-minded widow Zae Richardson and unfocused libertine Chip Kish couldn't be more different. Zae, whose beloved husband died too young, holds on to his memory to shield herself from the pain of further loss. Veteran Marine Chip enjoys a string of emotionally empty relationships until he realizes the older woman worth his heart is the one who seems least attainable. Call it May-December and everything in between, Zae and Chip meet on common ground to discover that love is a force greater than the calendar, social status, politics and everything else in between. "Whatever Melody Cannon wants, Melody Cannon gets - or least that has been the case for the past eight years. The famous Hollywood stylist is used to giving orders, but when Melody takes an early retirement from Tinseltown and returns home to Washington, D."-- Provided by publisher