Flawless (Love California #1)

  Sunshine & Second Chances: A Vacation Romance Series Verena is at the helm of her family’s legendary Swiss skincare company in Beverly Hills. After her parents die, she becomes the sole provider for her younger twin sisters and her grandmother. She must travel to Paris to save the company, but she doesn't expect a handsome chef to steal her heart.  Join Verena and her friends as they travel the world, fall in love, and find the courage to take second chances! Limited Time Sale from a multiple USA Today Bestselling Author 📚 Purchase Ebook 📥 Receive the book link instantly via email from Bookfunnel to the email address you used when you check out (Read on the free BookFunnel app for phone or tablet, Kindle, Nook, iPad, etc.)💌 Send to your preferred device and enjoy! 🎧 Audiobooks: Purchase from your favorite audiobook retailer, including Audible, Apple, Kobo, and others. Excerpt: Verena heard her name called. Despite the uneasy, prickly feeling on the back of her neck, she arranged a smile on her face and made her way to the podium through throngs of well-wishers and clouds of expensive perfume. This was her moment. Amid the thunder of applause rising in the ballroom of the Beverly Hills Hotel, she passed linen-draped, flower-laden tables ringed with women in dazzling designer evening dresses and men in tuxedos.Tonight was a night that her grandmother, Mia, had dreamed of. Verena wished she could be here, but Mia was at home resting in bed. It was supposed to have been such a happy celebration. A vein pulsed in her temple, twitching her eye.Lifting the hem of her silvery evening gown, Verena navigated the steps up to the brightly lit stage. She greeted Robert Montreaux with a kiss on each cheek and turned on a radiant smile for the photographers. As head of her family company, Verena performed her job with practiced precision and grace.She blinked against the camera flashes that left a shower of blue sparkles in front of her eyes, momentarily blinding her. As her vision cleared, Verena glanced at the crowd that had gathered. She sought out the faces of her friends Dahlia, Fianna, and Scarlett, who had just flown in from New York for the occasion. She drew a deep breath. At least her good friends were with her tonight. They’d waited patiently through long speeches from other industry professionals who were also being honored for their accomplishments. Verena was seated at a front table for the honorees while her friends had been seated at another table farther back. She needed to speak to them, especially Scarlett, her attorney.Verena had received a voicemail just moments before she’d left for the awards banquet. Her good friend and banker, Marvin Panetta, had left an urgent message for her to call him, but he hadn’t answered when she tried to call him back. I have bad news, he’d said. I need to warn you about Derrick.That would be Derrick Logan, her ex-fiancé. The man who couldn’t seem to accept no for an answer, in business or in personal relationships. She wondered what he was up to now.