cheating

I never ever would have known about this book if it weren't for a review on MSN.  It was featured on their home page and it looked intriguing, so I checked it out from the library.  It's got a lot of pages and took me a while to read, but I did it.  And I'm glad.  It's a great book!

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Could it be more than infatuation?

"You're still the most beautiful woman I've ever seen," Ben told Shelley. And admittedly she was more than flattered by his interest in her. But how could she take him seriously?

Ben couldn't love her. She was five years older than him, a friend of the family's, for heaven's sake. Ben was simply fulfilling a fantasy from when he'd been eighteen and infatuated with Shelley. And he was ruining his engagement in the process.

Shelley's nerves were ready to break. For everyone's sake she'd have to do the right thing....

Spoiler Warning: All my reviews contain spoilers to some degree  

Favourite Scene:

Ben finished unbuttoning his shirt and pulled it free of his pants. Beneath the thin material, his skin was brown and filmed with moisture, and Shelley despised herself anew for her totally uncontrollable response to his unconscious sexuality.

‘Ben, what are you doing?’ she mumbled helplessly, unable to look away, and with slow deliberation, he covered the space between them, and pulled her against him.

‘Stop fighting it,’ he muttered unsteadily

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For Gabe Considine, Grand Duke of Illyria and a ruthless billionaire businessman, it's payback time! He believes his ex-fiancée, Sara Milton, stole a priceless family heirloom and betrayed him with another man. Now Gabe wants his pride -- and his property -- returned!

He'll lure Sara to his remote castle -- and keep her there until she gives him everything he wants, even if he has to seduce her into submission.…

Spoiler Warning: All my reviews contain spoilers to some degree  

Rant Warning: I ranted a bit on this one.  It touched a personal beef of mine about double standards. 

Favourite Scene: (I like how he kisses her injured palm)

The chafed area where the reins had sawed into her palm stood out red, he said something under his breath.
Sara froze listening to her heartbeat pick up speed.
The tips of Gabe's lean fingers touched the fragile blue veins at her wrist measuring that betraying pulse. He looked up sharply his eyes fiercely gleaming and tension crackled in the air between them so potent it drowned out the frantic urging of her brain to get the hell out of there.
As though compelled he lifted her hand and kissed the palm his lips lingering draining the soreness from the skin setting fire to the reckless craving she tried so hard to keep secret.
 

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Exposed: millionaire in baby battle!

Suddenly, Clare was the latest tabloid gossip: the girl who'd had an affair with Jack Straker, notorious tycoon....

Cheating on a sex survey...  What's the worst that can happen? (from the front cover)