Almost Perfect

by Patricia Rice

Ivy/Ballantine

Contemporary Romance

February 26, 2002

ISBN-13: 0449006034

Available in: Paperback

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Almost Perfect
by Patricia Rice

Celebrated cartoonist Jared McCloud is plumb out of laughs. To unblock his creative juices, he rents a secluded beach house-and ends up falling into the Looking Glass world of Cleo Alyssum.

Cleo isn't exactly a recluse, though living on an island and scaring away trespassers aren't the actions of a social butterfly. Cleo simply has more important things to do than to waste time with the artistic, bullheaded hunk living in her guest house. Yet somehow Jared and his devilish charm inch their way into her life, reaching the warm places her cold exterior cleverly hides. Will Cleo open her heart to a man who falls short of her expectations?

After all, it wasn't her intention to fall for someone who is almost perfect. . .

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Patricia Rice's Bio

With several million books in print and New York Times and USA Today's bestseller lists under her belt, former CPA, Patricia Rice, is one of romance's hottest authors. Her emotionally-charged contemporary and historical romance novels have won numerous awards, including the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice and Lifetime Achievement Awards, as well as the Bookrak Bestselling Paperback award. Her books have also been honored as Romance Writers of America RITA finalists in the historical, regency and contemporary categories.

Ms. Rice's next two contemporaries will feature characters who were first introduced in Impossible Dreams (Almost Perfect, McCloud's Woman - Ballantine Ivy). Her next historical returns the reader to the bewitching milieu of magic (Must Be Magic - Signet).

A firm believer in happily-ever-after, Patricia Rice is married to her high school sweetheart and has two children. Born in New York and raised in Kentucky, she resides in Charlotte, North Carolina, and now does accounting only for herself. She is a member of Romance Writers of America, the Authors Guild, and Novelists, Inc., as well as numerous professional accounting organizations and local charities.