title: Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
author:  Koren Zailckas 
description: "Bookstores are flooded with boozy bios by former girls gone wild." This one rises to the top. -<b>People</b>
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  ‘Here. Drink this,’ Zan ordered.  
  
  
    
  
  The girl sighed, accepted the glass, then sipped.  
  
  
    
  
  Zan tossed back a glass of brandy himself before he turned to her. To his
  amazement his temper heated, rapid and out of control, then bubbled up to
  spill out in hard words. ‘What were you thinking, madam, getting yourself
  trapped by an incoming tide? Did you not see what was happening?’  
  
  
    
  
  The soft summer blue of her gaze sharpened, as did her voice. ‘No, I did not
  see. Or I would not have been trapped, would I?’  
  
  
    
  
  She had spirit. He’d give her that. Zan raised his brows as his irritation
  began to ebb. ‘Now what do I do with you?’  
  
  
    
  
  ‘You do nothing with me.’ Her eyes flashed. ‘I am very grateful that you
  rescued me, of course, but I am perfectly capable of returning home on my own.
  You are at liberty to ride on your way.’  
  
  
    
  
  Zan simply stood and looked at her, torn between amusement and frustration.
  She sat and looked back at him, mutiny in her face