title: Trona to Austin: How Life Snuck Up on Me
author: Paul Maclean
description: Paul MacLean unknowingly battled an inherited degenerative motor-sensory neuropathy Charcot-Marie-Tooth with 26 years of foot races and triathlon. He stopped competing before an official diagnosis in 2003, but refuses to give in, walking or jogging daily. After he shuttered his home inspection business in 2006, his loving wife and editor asked, What ll you do now you re retired? and snickered when he replied, Write my life story. She didn t grasp that his retirement would put her to work. But now that the book s published, Paul and Harriett spend time enjoying grandkids, volunteering with their homeowners association, and vacationing across the USA.
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  Sarah MacLean
  
  Nine Rules to Break  
  When Romancing a Rake
  
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  For the spy and the Italian,  
  who, it should come as no surprise,  
  gave me all my stories.
  
  For Eric, my rock.
  
  In Loving Memory of  
  Barbara Delhi Joan MacLean,  
  Thomas Pearson, Ada Fiori,  
  and Giuseppe Trabucchi.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
  [Prologue](index_split_003.html#filepos8473)
  
  Lady Calpurnia Hartwell blinked back tears as she fled the ballroom…
  
  [One](index_split_005.html#filepos24463)
  
  The incessant pounding woke him.
  
  [Two](index_split_006.html#filepos51672)
  
  Callie Hartwell paused in her reading, and released a deep, satisfied…
  
  [Three](index_split_007.html#filepos107341)
  
  Callie watched the hackney cab drive off down the darkened…
  
  [Four](index_split_008.html#filepos146269)
  
  Callie woke late, an instant feeling of nervous apprehension roiling…
  
  [Five](index_split_009.html#filepos184123)
  
  To a casual observer, the Marquess of Ralston, lounging in…
  
  [Six](index_split