Back Cover:
Incident #1 - The Deception. Kristin Blake is horrified when she realizes that her potential new boss, Matthew Lingard, is the same man she publicly humiliated ten years before. So she has to keep her true identity a secret!
Incident #2 - The Bedroom. Forced to share a bedroom one night, Kristin and Matthew struggle to keep the arrangement strictly business - but it proves impossible!
Incident #3 - The Engagement. And the morning after, their night of passion is discovered. There's only one solution to avoid a scandal: pretend to be engaged!
My Review:
Ha! I love the banter and dynamic between the hero/heroine. They fight and they are both intelligent enough to be equals and not be overwhelmed by the other person's strong personality. This is a very realistic romance, you can picture these people existing in real life. The hero is not an alpha, and I kind of liked that, he was a cuddly kind of guy. I liked the humour in this book: they got engaged, broke their engagement, and got engaged over and over again (for the sake of keeping appearances). They would manage to break it off without causing a scandal, then they'd find themselves kissing in public and have to pretend the engagement was back on, it got a little hilarious in the ridiculousness of it all. When in the end they actually got engaged for real, it was sweet.
The declaration of love... took place while the hero was showering, he invited the heroine to come into the bathroom and talk to him while he showered, then told her he loved her. That wasn't very romantic, not the kind of "I love you and marry me" proposal a girl dreams of, but it was fresh and funny and natural for the couple. I think this was a great read.
Rating: 4/5 stars, great realistic story about career journalists falling in love for keeps.
Nice review....
I like how you set this up, Janet. You did a great job. Makes the book sound really appealing!
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