{"product_id":"how-the-playboy-got-serious-0373178271-used","title":"How the Playboy Got Serious","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0373178271\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Jump, Shirley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Used\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Shirley Jump spends her days writing romance to feed her shoe addiction and avoid cleaning the toilets. She cleverly finds writing time by feeding her kids junk food, allowing them to dress in the clothes they find on the floor and encouraging the dogs to double as vacuum cleaners. Chat with her via Facebook: www.facebook.com\/shirleyjump.author or her website: www.shirleyjump.com. Product Description Riley McKenna has led a charmed life-until now! Cut off from the family trust fund, he's out on his ear and fending for himself.When he applies for a job at Stace Kettering's diner, she's not impressed by his blue eyes and easy smile. She has a strict zero-tolerance policy toward pampered playboys, having learned her lesson once already!Riley thinks Stace will fall for him like all the others-but he's about to discover that his playboy ways just don't cut it in the real world. Excerpt.  Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Life as Riley McKenna knew it was about to change. And change in a big way. He sensed the change coming, like the shift in the wind when summer yielded to fall.\"I love you, Riley, but I have to say this.\" Mary McKenna looked her grandson straight in the eye, with the steady light blue gaze that told him she was about to say something he didn't want to hear. \"It's high time you grew up.\"Gray-haired, elegant and poised, Mary sat in one of two rose-patterned Windsor chairs in what was called the morning room but that Riley and his brothers had long ago dubbed the \"serious room,\" because that was where their grandmother held all her serious talks. When they were young, they knew getting called into the morning room meant a long and stern lecture. Even at twenty-six, Riley was occasionally summoned to this space-and that was exactly what Mary did-summoned-and given the familiar sermon about responsibility and maturity.Mary had a presence about her, built over years of helming first the family, then the family business. Truth be told, she intimidated most people and even sometimes Riley, because she made no bones about her feelings-ever. So when Mary wanted to have a serious talk, Riley knew enough to listen. But that didn't mean he wasn't going to try to escape the lecture about to come.\"Gran, it's my birthday.\" He shot her the grin that usually sweet-talked his grandmother into leniency. \"That means I'm more grown up today than yesterday.\"More or less.He'd spent the night before his birthday in a bar, and had plans to hit a whole list of them tonight with his friends. He knew he should be looking forward to the night out, but for some reason, the thought of trading the same conversations with the same people over the same beverages soundedBoring.He was just hungover. Or something. He'd be fine once he had a nice dark ale in his hands.\"That is not what I meant, and you know it.\" Gran sipped a cup of tea while the sun streamed in from the picture window behind her and kissed everything in the stately Victorian style room with gold. The house was over a hundred years old, a towering three-level clothed in dark paneling and the occasional modern touch. Mary could have afforded ten times the house but she had chosen to stay in the place where she had raised her children and loved her husband. To Riley, the house had a certain amount of dependability and comfort, which was half the reason he had yet to move out of the guest house that sat just down the driveway from the main house. He liked being here, liked being surrounded by his DNA's history. And he liked to keep an eye on his grandmother. She had a tendency to do too much, and to rarely listen to anyone who told her otherwise. The McKenna stubborn streak was alive and well in Mary McKenna.Mary smoothed out a wrinkle that had dared to crimp her plaid skirt. \"Your birthday is an occasion to rethink your priorities and focus on more mature pursuits.\"More mature pursuits\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67963408679200,"sku":"USED0373178271","price":15.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/81ZoolvWmqL.jpg?v=1792909416","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/how-the-playboy-got-serious-0373178271-used","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}