Secret heiress Abilene Dupree doesn’t want to depend on her billionaire family for anything. She moves away from Louisiana to Georgia to embark on her own life as an artist and art teacher in the coastal city of Savannah, living very frugally and working hard to make ends meet month to month. She’s a very good artist and displays her artwork at Simon’s Gallery on River Street. One day, a tourist from London buys her painting and has been thinking about it ever since. Lars Cargill makes a special trip to Savannah to track down the artist. In the process of finding out more about the lady in the painting, he falls in love with the woman behind the painting. Unfortunately, before their romance could progress further, an unexpected drama from Lars’s past comes back to haunt him. Will it ruin his future with Abilene?
Draw You Near
Lars and Abilene are drawn to each other, but will their relationship end up like an unfinished painting?
Savannah artist Abilene Dupree keeps her personal life out of her commercial paintings except one. That one painting has now brought Londoner Lars Cargill back to the coastal town and into her art world. Can she hold him at bay before he invades her personal space and paint his way into her heart?
Lars’s Labor…
While on vacation in Savannah last year, Lars Cargill bought a small watercolor painting for his estate in England. The more he stared at the artwork, the more he wanted to meet the woman in the painting. This summer, Lars returns to Savannah to find the elusive real-life Lady and the Sea. Problem is, the artist says she doesn’t exist. Of course, he doesn’t believe her. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be showing up in her art classes and following her around. He doubts she has the heart to turn him away, not when he shows her that he has artistic potential.Abilene’s Art…
Abilene Dupree is busy trying to make a living as an artist and art teacher in Savannah. She sells commercial art, not personal stories. Although much of her heart goes into her paintings, she doesn’t reveal her soul, not even to the clean-cut guy with cute dimples who is searching for the woman in her Lady and the Sea painting. She keeps telling Lars that the illusive woman in the painting doesn’t exist. Well, the more she tells him that, the more she begins to believe her own words. Before she could give him the real answers he seeks, Lars’s own past shows up and he has to leave Savannah. Will their relationship be like an unfinished painting?Tropes & Themes:
- Multiracial romance
- International romance
- English gentleman from London
- Modern southern belle from Louisiana
- Artist romance
- Art teacher
- Landscape artist
- Art collector
- Secret billionaires
- In between jobs
- Beach romance
- Coast city romance
- Career woman
- Sins of the past
- Family relationships
- Brothers
- Sibling relationships
