After years as a sweet goodnatured pushover Annie Markham has had to face upto three hard truths Youve got to be tough to succeed in business andromance. Someti... » 

After years as a sweet goodnatured pushover Annie Markham has had to face upto three hard truths Youve got to be tough to succeed in business andromance. Sometimes your meddling loved ones are right about your worthless nogood boyfriend being worthless and no good. The only reliable thing about menis that theyre totally unreliable. Okay shes been persuaded. So now sevenyears after wisely and abruptly dumping the love of her life Jake Meadthings should be going better for Annie Markham right? Unfortunately herlifes going nowhere her familys going mental and the family business isheading straight down the tubes. Could it get worse? Of course Jakes backAnnies getting ready for bankruptcy and no ones ready for Christmas ... letalone a happy New Year. And no amount of persuasion will ever convince Anniethat magic does happen and dreams do come true not even at the stroke ofmidnight on December 31 at New Yorks Plaza Hotel ... will it? «