Strapped For Cash — Andrene Low

Historic art thefts and forgeries. Blackmail capable of bringing down a government. Slap and tickle that could prove fatal. Will Brenda ever make a living that doesn't involve crusty old men?Since puberty, Brenda has never had any issues with money. She's always been more than well cared for by the old guys she's latched onto. She drapes herself over them in public, providing company and kudos; they pay for everything. Set in London at the end of the seventies, when the country was grappling with the iron rule of Margaret Thatcher, and the economy was in serious need of some CPR, we see Brenda struggling to sort out her own finances, with the irony she's being screwed out of her own nest egg by a bloke not lost on her. But, never keen on the nine-to-five and much preferring ninety-five-and-loaded, Brenda opens a school for girls, teaching the art of opening the wallets of old chaps who can afford it. She hopes it pans out, because apart from the financial implications, she doesn't fancy a love life that's destined to be littered with dodgy prostates and emergency CPR. Perhaps the most valuable thing she learns through her school is there's a lot more to family than the blood relations you've been lumbered with. Strapped for Cash is the third in Andrene Low's Sexy Seventies Series with humour that takes no prisoners-unless that's what they're paying for. Originally published as "Screwed for Money"