Frannie and the Charmer — Ann Carberry

Love Struck

Mary Frances Donnelly's quiet reserve gives way to her white-hot Irish temper when her father provides her with a "partner" to run the Four Roses Hotel. Frannie hopes the handsome stranger will tire of the sedate ambience of a San Francisco hotel owner, but Sean Sullivan, full of blarney, full of life, and full of lust for his tantalizingly fiery partner, is not about to disappear.

Seemingly overnight, Sean's powerful, charismatic presence turns Frannie's life and her hotel upside-down -- and she is not about to trust this charmer with her business...or her heart. And as Sean's "family" of traveling performers moves in, the stubborn partners sing their own duet of desire and denial...daring each other to make the final leap into the arms of love.