Englishman Lake Benson loaned his life savings to his dippy sister so that she could buy a shop. It was a big mistake. His sister has been steadily flushing his money down the drain – and now he wants it back. Years in the special forces taught Lake that if you want a job done, do it yourself. So he steps in to make the shop profitable, sell it and get his money back. The only problem is, the business is an underwear shop. And all Lake knows about underwear can be summed up in how fast he can unsnap a bra. To make matters worse, the tiny highland town already has a lingerie shop. A successful one, run by an ex-lingerie model. A very gorgeous ex-lingerie model, who’s distracting him from his mission more than he’d like to admit. If Lake wants to get his savings back, and get out of Scotland, he only has one option – wipe out the competition. Kirsty Campbell has spent years rebuilding her life after she woke up in hospital in Spain to find her body scarred, and her ex-fiance had run off with all her money. The last thing she needs is a cocky, English soldier-boy trying to ruin what little she has left. Her home town is only too happy to help her fight the latest English invasion, although Lake is beginning to sway them with his sex appeal and cut price knickers. With the help of her mother, and the retired ladies of Knit or Die, Kirsty sets about making sure that her shop is the last one standing in Invertary. It’s Scotland versus England as you’ve never seen it before. It’s lingerie war.
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Sexual Content - 4/5
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Violence - 2/5
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Language - 2/5
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Drugs and Alcohol - 1/5
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Summary
Lake Benson shows up in Invertarty for one simple reason: to save his sister's business. Discovering that the business for which he provided the capital is called \"Betty's Knicker Emporium\" is a bit of a shock, but Lake figures his goaldirected approach to life will turn the business around quickly and let him get back to his life. Kirsty Campbell, former lingerie model and owner of the lingerie shop across the street from Betty's Knicker Emporium, doesn't care for Lake's attitude, She cares a lot for him, though, and that proves a distraction for both of them as the competition between their shops ramps up. Further distraction is provided by the wacky inhabitants of Invertary, a town that can really get behind a lingerie war. Is it InverTARTy, as the news crews say when they get wind of the shenanigans going on around the competing underwear stores? In the course of the book, we learn about the damaging experiences both Kirsty and Lake have had and they learn how to overcome some of that damage and find true love. They also become the center of a bunch of personal transformations in the town. The result is a madcap romp of a book with a group of characters you'll want to see more of.
Violence There are blowbyblow descriptions of violence.
Language
Sexual This is a pretty steamy book.
Drug & Alcohol There is some drinking, sometimes to excess.