Career Girl Romances #42

When a young woman named Vera discovers Sean Riordan, a talented Irish painter struggling to make his mark, she brings his work to her father's respected gallery—but Sean's attention is firmly fixed on Vera herself, not the art world. As her father plots to make Sean a sensation through savvy promotion and the critics embrace his avant-garde work, Vera watches the real Sean—a man who finds his truest joy painting seascapes and working the charter boat he runs with his brother—get swallowed up by the machinery of fame and fashion. With Sean's future suddenly bright and the world clamoring for his art, Vera must decide what matters more: his success or his happiness.

Claire Rollins despises the vain, scene-stealing actor Keith Hogarth while working as a producer's assistant on a Broadway production—but when he catches on to her true feelings, she flees to her Pennsylvania hometown to escape him and start fresh as a schoolteacher. When Keith mysteriously appears in town, Claire finds herself caught between her determination to move on and the possibility that the arrogant performer she knows might be hiding something deeper beneath all that ego.