Elise Sax

Elise is an overwhelmed single mother of two boys in Southern California. She's an avid traveler, a swing dancer, an occasional piano player, and an online shopping junkie.

How to Marry a Billionaire
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Love sucks. Every time Beatrice Hammersmith falls for a guy, he breaks her heart and steals her appliances. It’s no fun sleeping alone and waking up without a coffeemaker. Fed up, Beatrice hatches a plan with two other women to find true love and marry billionaires. First on their agenda is to capture the heart of hottie billionaire, Cole Stevens. Cole is handsome, brilliant, and he owns his own appliances. Operation Billionaire sends the three new friends (and one of their mothers and a passel of children) to Cole’s ranch to make him fall in love with Beatrice. But their plans run into some trouble. It’s not so easy to bag a billionaire. Will Beatrice find love with Cole? Will she marry the billionaire of her dreams?


Operation Billionaire

"That was great. He's not attracted to you at all!" Bessie announces with glee when the lifeguards get me to shore and drop me on the rocky beach. I gasp for breath under the weight of the wet modesty suit.


Vern is dropped on to the beach next to me, but he's a billionaire, so he's whisked away by butlers and other kinds of staff. I've got Bessie and Rosalind.


"I thought you were a goner," Rosalind says.


"I've never seen anything like it," Bessie says. "Dueling snorkels, masks flying in the air. It was like a movie. Like Jaws."


"I must have drunk a gallon of seawater," I gasp. "I think I drank that damned starfish that Vern was scared of."


They help me up and take me back to the dressing room, where I throw away the swimsuit and get back into my clothes. "We didn't even have to use the GPS tracker or the pepper spray," Bessie says. "I'd say this was a big success."


Chapter 23