Rules for a Pretty Woman

Rules for a Pretty Woman by Francis, Suzette. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780060535421.

Rule #9: I will heed the warnings of my inner voice Dr. Lenita Mae Faulkner has come a long way from her dirt-poor beginningsin Madoosa County. All shes missing is a family. And with her nine-year live-in lover Ralph seemingly about to pop the question, it looks like shes about to get her wish -- a good thing, too, since Lennys biological clock is ticking rapidly toward thirty-five. Rule #7: I will never again go fetch the beer But instead of proposing, Ralph skips out, empties their joint bank account,and runs off with another woman. And on top of that, a true family catastrophe is calling her back to tiny Madoosa -- the last place Lenny wants to be.Home again at the lowest point of her once-charmed life, Lenny is blastedby a forgotten piece of her past: a diary she kept in the fifth grade containing a list of rules she had created to live by. And in their simple, fervent honesty is the impetus for her to get out and start living again. Rule #3: I will follow my dreams Look out world, because Lenita Mae is coming on strong once more -- andthis time, it will be according to her own rules! It wont always be pretty, and it wont be perfect . . . but it may just help her discover what real love is all about!