Flirting with Disaster

Maggie Forsythe, an improper Southern belle from the South Carolina Low Country, has been dumped two weeks before her wedding. Her fiance was a man even her mother approved of. Maggie has never cared much what people think of her, yet she is hiding away from home and avoiding her art gallery.

Her friends, who are clearly scheming, turn up with three choices. She can sit and mope, she can go back to the gallery, or she can help build a house for a family in need. Maggie picks the hammer and the saw.

The site is run by foreman Josh Parker, who takes one look at her and sees a sweet-tea-drinking debutante. She surprises him by handling a circular saw with ease. The attraction between them is strong and immediate, but Josh sees a gap he does not trust: he is corn bread, and she is caviar.

Josh grew up without money, and it taught him to aim low rather than risk everything and lose. That habit puts him at odds with his own feelings.

This is a contemporary Southern romance of opposites. The tone is warm and light, with banter, a rebound heroine and a hands-on charity build as the setting.