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Author: Elizabeth Barnes

📘 In spite of themselves by Elizabeth Barnes

Anne Chapin, reserved and skeptical, is offered a chance to pose as the mistress of cynical businessman Nicholas Thayer. The arrangement is meant to secure the capital she needs to launch her own gallery. As the weeks progress, Anne confronts her own insecurities, Nicholas’s motives, and the sting of unrequited affection, ultimately learning to embrace her potential and the possibility of change.

First publish date: 1990

Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction

Authors: Elizabeth Barnes

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