Brake Failure
By: Alison Brodie
Publication Date: January 9, 2017
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Brake
Failure is a contemporary romance with a kick-ass heroine. The story is set in
one of the most fascinating periods of America's history: the months leading up
to Y2K "melt-down."
"Is it
too late to tell him you love him when you're looking down the barrel of his
gun?"
Ruby
Mortimer-Smyth is an English debutante, destined for Lady’s Day at Ascot and
taking tea at The Savoy. She knows the etiquette for every occasion and her
soufflés NEVER collapse.
She is in
control of her life, tightly in control. Until fate dumps her down in … Kansas.
Ruby
believes that life is like a car; common-sense keeps it on the road, passion
sends it into a ditch. What she doesn't know is, she's on a collision course
with Sheriff Hank Gephart.
Sheriff Hank
Gephart can judge a person. Miss Mortimer-Smyth might act like the Duchess of
England but just under the surface there's something bubbling, ready to
explode. She's reckless, and she's heading for brake failure. And he's not
thinking about her car.
With the
Millennium approaching, Ruby gets caught up in the Y2K hysteria. She joins a group
of Survivalists, who give her a gun and advise her to stockpile basic
essentials, such as gasoline and water-purifying tablets. So she bulk-buys
Perrier, Gentleman's Relish and macaroons.
Ruby, far
from home, is making Unsuitable Friends and "finding herself" for the
first time. She falls in with a gang of Hells Angels and falls foul of the law.
At every turn, she comes up hard against Sheriff Hank Gephart, whose blue eyes
seem to look deep into her soul. She desperately wants him but knows she can
never have him.
She's angry
at the emotions he arouses in her. Pushed to her limit, she bursts from her
emotional straightjacket.
As the clock
strikes midnight of the new Millennium, she's on a freight train with three
million dollars, a bottle of Wild Turkey and a smoking gun.
What
happened to Miss Prim-and-Proper? And why did she shoot Mr Right?
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Note: Alison
Brodie wrote this story from first-hand experience. She lived in Kansas during
this time and was stunned by the hysteria, unnerved that the US government was
spending $150 billion preparing for Armageddon. As Lionel Shriver says in
"We have to Talk About Kevin": '1999, a year widely mooted beforehand
as the end of the world.'
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