Crushed (The Cashmere Chronicles Book Four)

By Grace Walter

“My heart is hammering, messages from our texts over the years flash through my head. I can see the look in his eyes the night we met, I remember how his face lit up the night we saw each other again after seven long years. And the weight of his anticipation comes crashing down on me.”

Sophie’s already disappointed her billionaire father and millionaire ex-husband. Could it be that Griffin - not the trust fund or black Amex- was what she actually needed all along?

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If you love smart and sexy fiction and a good romantic short story, then The Cashmere Chronicles are for you.

Georgia and Gray’s VIP travel and luxury lifestyle company comes to fruition just as both of their marriages start to crumble, catapulting them from a life of just being just mamas to female CEOs. Together they navigate how to be a single mother with a second chance, being divorced women dating, and sex over forty all while packing school lunches and traveling to for work. With strong female characters, catty comments, millennial hires, VIP romance backstage, and a sexy millionaire boyfriend or two there’s never a dull moment in the inspirational romance books The Cashmere Chronicles.

Ever love characters so much you don’t want the story to end? Same here! You can follow Gray and Georgia out in the real world in real time at www.nochairzone.com and @nochairzone on Instagram for weekend getaway guides, what they are currently wearing/buying/listening to/reading, and inspiration on how to live like a VIP everyday.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Grace Walter
• Release date: Jun 17, 2019

Book preview

Chapter 1

Black cashmere romper? Nope, I wore that on our first date…

Vintage tee and pencil skirt? Trying too hard…

Black leather pants, white silk tank, and cashmere cardigan? YES!

I turn a few times, check the side profile and decide that I feel like the sexy, joyful woman I want Griffin to see tonight. My College crush has re-entered my life and the butterflies in my stomach dance with anticipation as I plan to meet him at his company happy-hour tonight. And since we are still in the awkward, unsure where we stand phase, I want to make sure I don't leave anything to chance.

Sophie, don't mess this one up, I say to myself in the mirror. My blond curly hair and thin frame can cause an outfit to tip into the disheveled category if I am not careful. I still have not put back on the weight I lost after my divorce.

27 and divorced felt like a real low in my life, but my new job has helped me turn a corner. Georgia and Gray are cool for 40-something-year-olds that run a media company. I mean, how many bosses let you go home early to get ready for a date? They both are going through the uncoupling process with their respective husbands, which results in them encouraging my evolving relationship with Griffin. He has always been the one in the back of my mind. I don't want to use the word soulmate, but as I told Georgia and Gray, he has always been the mark by which I measure every other man.

Our first introduction started with world-colliding intensity at a college party. Griffin and I stayed in touch through social media and texts that were heavy with hints of what might happen if we only lived in the same town. Then when he showed up in Austin interview for a job, it was the most dramatic night of my life for two reasons. First, the night initially ended with a goodbye kiss and me walking dreamily to my car before being attacked by a crazy man - with an excellent kick to the guy's nuts, I managed to escape. Second, was Griffin rushing to my apartment that night to make sure I was ok and the two of us ending up in bed together. Everything from that night