Some Girls Do
Chapter One
Ivan Rasmussen looked at his world as if he were the Almighty
himself. Katie supposed that in Ivan's creation story, he looked at
his hugely successful company and like the Almighty, saw that it was
good. He looked at his grand house in exclusive Society Hill and saw
that it was good. He looked at his most recently acquired wife, who
was able to trace her ancestry back to the Mayflower, and saw that
she was good.
But when Ivan looked at his youngest daughter, Wilhemina, he saw
that she was not so good. She was a mess. Wilhemina bore the
influence of every woman who'd passed through her life from her
now-deceased Las Vegas showgirl mother to the Slovakian housekeeper
who'd once sneaked cookies to her. Unfortunately Wilhemina had
inherited her looks from her portly father, Ivan. All her personal
stylists had quit, and although Wilhemina was eager to do charity
work, no one really trusted her to complete an assignment. Staring
at a recent photograph of Wilhemina, Ivan pinched the bridge of his
nose as he stood beside the full-length window of his home office
furnished in leather and aged oak. "Patricia and I are finally
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