Beverly Winslow's life is exactly how she wants it...until the grandfather she never met dies and leaves her a three-hundred million dollar fortune. As far as she's concerned, the Winslows' can take their money and go to hell. Bev doesn't belong in that world—even if her grandfather's deliciously hot attorney tells her otherwise. Finn Callahan is simply trying to do his job. The problem: Beverly Winslow is the most stubborn, infuriating woman he's ever met. Before he can answer the questions surrounding the sexy, fascinating woman, someone tries to kill her. Finn and Bev team up as as she steers her new role as CEO of her grandfather's conglomerate. While she faces charity balls and a testy board of directors, Finn falls ever deeper in love—but she doesn't need another complication in her life. As their romance heats, the target on her back grows. They must figure out who wants them dead...before it's too late.
Beverly Winslow's life is exactly how she wants it...until the grandfather she never met dies and leaves her a three-hundred million dollar fortune. As far as she's concerned, the Winslows' can take their money and go to hell. Bev doesn't belong in that world—even if her grandfather's deliciously hot attorney tells her otherwise. Finn Callahan is simply trying to do his job. The problem: Beverly Winslow is the most stubborn, infuriating woman he's ever met. Before he can answer the questions surrounding the sexy, fascinating woman, someone tries to kill her. Finn and Bev team up as as she steers her new role as CEO of her grandfather's conglomerate. While she faces charity balls and a testy board of directors, Finn falls ever deeper in love—but she doesn't need another complication in her life. As their romance heats, the target on her back grows. They must figure out who wants them dead...before it's too late.
Jill Lepore is unquestionably one of America’s best historians; it’s fair to say she’s one of its best writers too." —Jonathan Russell Clark, Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2023: New Yorker, TIME A book to be read and kept for posterity, The Deadline is the art of the essay at its best. Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore, with her panoptical range and razor-sharp style, brought a transporting freshness and a literary vivacity to everything from profiles of long-dead writers to urgent constitutional analysis to an unsparing scrutiny of the woeful affairs of the nation itself. The astonishing essays collected in The Deadline offer a prismatic portrait of Americans’ techno-utopianism, frantic fractiousness, and unprecedented—but armed—aimlessness. From lockdowns and race commissions to Bratz dolls and bicycles, to the losses that haunt Lepore’s life, these essays again and again cross what she calls the deadline, the “river of time that divides the quick from the dead.” Echoing Gore Vidal’s United States in its massive intellectual erudition, The Deadline, with its remarkable juxtaposition of the political and the personal, challenges the very nature of the essay—and of history—itself.
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