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Description

Lucy Savage is not having a good week. Her cheating husband, Bradley, lobbed the final insult when he stood her up in divorce court. A dye job gone wrong has left her hair green. And someone is trying to kill her. To top it off, sexy cop Zack Warren is certain the very same man Lucy is... read more

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Cast of Characters/Important People

  • Lucy Savage: Lucy has a wide forehead, big brown eyes, little mouth, pointed chin. She is about 5 foot 6 inches and 135 pounds.
  • Zack Warren: Zack is intense with dark and shaggy hair, deep blue eyes, about 200 pounds, a little over 6 feet tall, and his smile that came and went like a broken neon sign.
  • Tina Savage: Tina has dark, silky,precisely cut hair,with a cat face: wide forehead, big eyes, little mouth, pointed chin.
  • Anthony: Anthony is tall, slender, and elegant.
  • Bradley Porter: Bradley’s is handsome, with wavy blond hair, a straight Roman nose, a chiseled chin with a hint of a cleft, cold grey eyes, and a little out of shape.
  • John Bradley: John Talbot Bradley is six-five and weighs about two hundred pounds. He has brown hair and brown eyes, and he’s in very good physical condition. He used to be a high-school phys-ed teacher.
  • Mrs. Dover: Lucy's elderly next door neighbor.
  • Mrs. Elmore: The bank manager at Bradley Porter's bank.

Memorable Quotes

  • “Have I ever mentioned how much I hate it that you were a psych minor? A minor, for cripes’ sake. With a minor, you’re not even allowed to psychoanalyze dogs.”
    Zack
  • “That’s all I need is some dopey dog with big sad eyes telepathically telling me he never sees me and where have I been?”
    Zack
  • “There were never any women who liked to cook for men every day. There were only women who cooked for survival and pretended to like it. And now there are men who cook for survival. Like you. Think of this as survivalist training. Very macho.”
    Lucy

First Sentence

“I’ve never known anyone who was stood up for her own divorce before,” Tina Savage told her sister.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Jennifer Crusie (Author)

Awards

  • RITA (1995: Short Contemporary Series)
 

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