Lazy Ways To Make A Living

Dreamy Rose Budleigh has come home to Edinburgh with a PhD in Lexicography, an unusual brilliance for chess and not a penny to her name. Her sisters Catherine (the clever one) and Helen (the pretty one) despair of her: when, they ask, is she going to start living in the real world? All too soon Rose is sinking in a quicksand of tele-sales and market research.

Then she stops a familiar face to ask him which brand of toothpaste he uses: Jamie Cameron, chess rival from her teenage years. He's good-looking, fabulously wealthy and can't bear the thought of losing Rose again. He makes her an offer she can't refuse - he'll provide her with a life of luxury in return for her chess skills and her love.

Rose is smitten and so begins a very indulgent romance. But Catherine and Helen aren't so sure: they think their sister is about to find out that there's a price to pay for a life of idle pleasure . . .