Brilliant

Brilliant by Kellogg, Marne Davis. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780312991432.

Meet Kick Keswick, an elegant and self-possessed American who has been at Londons venerable Ballantine & Company Auctioneers for over thirty years. She is an expert on paintings, furniture, and objets dart, and so far has lived a perfectly happy life with things on her mind other than love. In fact, Kick rarely lets anyone into her private world. She prefers it that way. Kick doesnt need a man in her life, messing things up. But when American industrialist, scoundrel, and womanizer Owen Brace grabs the faltering Ballantine & Company in a corporate takeover, he turns Kicks world upside down, opening her eyes to large-scale love, romance, and sensuous pleasure. But something tells Kick that Braces motives are anything but sincere. And when he gets near enough to threaten Kicks closely guarded life, Brace learns the dangers of underestimating this woman. From sophisticated London to cozy Provence, France, Brilliant is a playfully delicious novel of suspense, masterful revenge, and secrets of the multi-faceted kind...