Excerpt from This Dame For Hire by Sandra Scoppettone, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

I thought about when West shook his head at his wife and knew it could've meant a simple no to my question, but I felt it meant something else.

I didn't know what it was.

But I knew I'd find out.

Excerpted from This Dame for Hire by Sandra Scoppettone Copyright © 2005 by Sandra Scoppettone. Excerpted by permission of Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.