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Rose Barnes has got curves for days―and to Angus Drummond, the big, bearded contractor working on her new house, she's the perfect thorn in his side. Little does she know Angus is perturbed on a daily basis by his attraction to this cheery, smart-ass woman with her sunshiny enthusiasm, her kindness, and her beautiful body. Angus feels he has a debt to pay to the world and doesn't deserve love until he pays it. Best to keep his mind on his work and his hands to himself. But the more Rose sees of Angus's gruff, honorable thoughtfulness, and the more rusty laughter she surprises from him, the more she wants him too. As their unlikely friendship becomes love, antagonism turns to partnership, and Rose's house becomes a home. But Rose is keeping a secret that could blow up everything with Angus, and sure enough, it comes to light at the worst possible time...

Richard Bone es un bala perdida bien parecido que malvive como gigoló en Santa Barbara. Sin residencia fija, suele dormir en el sofá de su amigo Alex Cutter, un veterano de Vietnam tullido, trastornado y explosivo a quien Mo, su esposa, se resiste a abandonar. Sin otro horizonte que el de beberse el próximo cheque de la pensión de invalidez, el naufragio de Bone, Cutter y Mo parece irreversible, hasta que una madrugada, volviendo a casa de la pareja, Bone sorprende deshaciéndose de un cadáver a un individuo que se parece vagamente al magnate J. J. Wolfe. La mera posibilidad de que Wolfe haya cometido el crimen espolea la mente paranoica de Cutter, que no tarda en idear un plan para extorsionar al multimillonario. Pese a su incredulidad, Bone va cediendo a la presión de su amigo tullido y se deja arrastrar en una carrera enloquecida hacia el oro de Wolfe, convencido sin embargo de que el asunto no es más que una quimera fabricada por la imaginación del atormentado Cutter. Pero, ¿y si fuera verdad? Publicada por primera vez en 1976 e inédita hasta ahora en castellano, "Cutter y Bone" es considerada, junto con "Dog Soldiers" de Robert Stone, una de las mejores novelas sobre los fantasmas de la sociedad norteamericana post Vietnam.

Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n’ roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road. Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend. The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.