Call Me Irresistible (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• Theodore 'Ted' Beaudine: Theodore Day Beaudine, aka Teddy, has perfectly bladed cheekbones, a flawlessly straight nose, a square movie-star jaw, and dark brown hair highlighted with copper. His eyes were golden amber touched with honey and rimmed with flint. Eyes that blazed with intelligence and perception. A Texas Hill Country boy through and through.
• Lucy Jorik: Oldest daughter of the former president of the United States. About to marry Teddy at the beginning of the novel
• Meg Koranda: Lucy's best friend. She's 5 foot 10, with olive skin, brown hair, and irregular features. Her eyes are an interesting combination of green and blue that changed color depending on the light. The daughter of Hollywood royalty, but she is also broke, homeless, and desperate.
• Cornelia (Nealy) Case Jorik: Lucy's mother and the former president of the United States.
• Dallas (Dallie) Beaudine: Ted's father and a legend in professional golf.
• Francesca Day: Ted's mother and one of the best of television's celebrity interviewers.
• Birdie Kittle: Manager of the Wynette Country Inn.
• Fleur Savager Koranda: Meg's mother and a former super model known as the 'Glitter Baby'. Runs a talent agency
• Lady Emma Traveler: Francesca Beaudine's best friend. Wife of Kenny Traveler. British aristocracy
• Spencer Skipjack: Heavy-set man in his fifties; extremely rich plumbing king with a powerful ego. Thinking about building a golf course in Wynette
• Haley Kittle: Birdie's eighteen year-old daughter; recent graduate from Wynette High School; works at the country club; and is sometimes Ted's personal assistant.
• Kayla Garvin: Beautiful blond beauty queen. Runs a re-sale store
• Torie Traveler O'Connor: Kenny's sister; Kayla's close friend; and Ted's best female friend.
• Kenny Traveler: Ted's best friend; a famous professional golfer.
• Shelby Traveler: Emma's friend and very young mother-in-law. Step-mother of Kenny and Torie; married to Warren Traveler
• Zoey Daniels: Studious young principal of Sybil Chandler Elementary School.
• Skeet Cooper: Dallie's best friend and lifelong caddy.
• Mark: Caddy at Wynette Country Inn
• Tracy Jorik: Younger sister of Lucy Jorik
• Dylan Koranda: Meg's brother; successful financial whiz.
• Jake Koranda: Meg's father; world famous actor, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, and best-selling book author.
• Clay Koranda: Meg's brother; Dylan's twin; starving actor with a degree from the Yale drama school.
• Sunny Skipjack: Spencer's daughter; infatuated with Teddy
• Dexter 'Dex' O'Connor: Torie's husband
• Andre Jorik: Nealy and Mat's adopted son
• Mat Jorik: Former first husband. Married to Nealy. Journalist
• Charlotte Jorik: Daughter of Mat and Nealy. Twin of Holly
• Holly Jorik: Daughter of Mat and Nealy. Twin of Charlotte

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• “Okay, so I'll admit I'm curious. Big deal. We both know what that leads to. Dead cat.”

  Meg Koranda

• “"I sure do miss that woman. Smart. Funny. Sweet. She never gave me a moment's trouble.""Gosh, I'm sorry about that. I knew it was boring between you two, but not that bad."”

  Ted and Meg

• “He could deal with his guilt all by himself. Guilt didn't add up to love, an emotion she was done with forever.”

  Meg Koranda

• “He should have seen this coming, but he hadn't. Of course she wouldn't want to move back to Wynette after everything that had happened to her there. But what about his family, his friends, his roots, which stretched so deep into that rocky soil he'd become part of it?”

  Ted Beaudine

• “Meg dashed toward the futon. "I'm trying to sleep up here," she shouted, girding herself for battle. "Do you mind?" / Ted thundered up the steps to the loft, the floor trembling under his feet. "What the hell do you think you're doing?" / She sat on the edge of the futon and tried to look as though she'd just awakened. / "Obviously, not sleeping. What's up with you, anyway? Barging in here in the middle of the night . . . And you shouldn't curse in church." / "How long have you been staying here?" / She stretched and yawned, trying to pull off her cool act. It would have been easier to do if she were wearing something more impressive than pirate-skull panties and the happy printing company T-shirt left behind by one of the guests. / "Do you have to yell so loud?" she said. "You're disturbing the neighbors. And they're dead." / "How long?" / "I'm not sure. Some of those headstones date all the way back to the 1840s." / "I'm talking about you."”

  Meg Koranda

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• If she’d ever risked building something for herself, she would also have risked failing in their eyes. By not risking anything, she couldn’t set herself up for failure. That’s what she’d believed, so that, in the end, she’d been left with nothing.

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• “If I were going to put a price tag on my lady parts, I’d find a more appetizing buyer.”

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• Meg was good at so many things that she’d concluded she wasn’t good at anything. Instead, she’d resigned herself to being inadequate, and no one—not her parents, not Lucy—could shake her conviction.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Wynette, Texas

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by What I Did for Love, and followed by The Great Escape.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Susan Elizabeth Phillips (Author)

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Awards edit see section history

• RT Reviewers' Choice Award Nominee (Finalist, 2011: Best Contemporary Romance)

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• Dewey: 813

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• Books › Romance › Authors, A-Z › ( P ) › Phillips, Susan Elizabeth
• Books › Romance › Contemporary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Women's Fiction › Single Women
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

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