Nicky Schmidt, who wrote the fabulous Naked in Knightsbridge, has returned with her long-awaited new novel, Marrying Out of Money.For those who have access to an e-reader, you're in luck - the Kindle version is now available to download at Amazon. The paperback edition will be out in March, but for the Kindle fans among us, you get first peek! (See?! I keep telling myself it'll be an investment...)
Naked in Knightsbridge is currently in the Top 50 on Amazon Kindle, and has remained in the Top 100 for over two months.
Stay tuned for a review and giveaway! But for now, here's the synopsis...
Marrying Out of Money follows the life and perils of rich coffee heiress Lou, who is madly infatuated with the less than erudite, tree-hugging, scruffy-to-the-point-of-smelly Hedge - member of rock band 4BY4. Lou's social-climbing mother decides that enough is enough, and hooks up with a poverty-stricken aristocrat to arrange a marriage between Lou and the snotty, outrageously good-looking Harry Partington - 40th in line to the throne. Not surprisingly, for both parties, it's hate on first sight. Still desperately in love with rock star Hedge, but with her beloved father ill and wanting nothing more that to see her married, Lou sets about making herself so repulsive that the aristocrats decide a future on a derelict council estate is preferable to having her as a daughter-in-law. Of course, nothing goes according to plan, and Lou finds herself questioning the wisdom of her actions, when she discovers that horrible Harry has a sensitive side after all.
