Back Cover:
Tara was millionaire Australian hotel magnate Max Richmond's mistress. She loved Max for himself, not for the gifts he gave her, their glamorous life, or even their intense lovemaking. But now, she was expecting his baby, the question was, should she stay or should she go? Tara was convinced that there was no place for a pregnant mistress in Max's life, or was there? Spoiler Warning: All my reviews contain spoilers
Favourite Scene: (good confrontation moment)
'Even better was the fact that I had the makings of such a cheap mistress. A dress here and there. The odd outing. Some champagne and you'd be In Like Flynn.'
‘Now, hold it right there!' he ground out. 'Firstly, I was never unfaithful to you. Not once. Secondly, I never thought of you as my mistress. I always meant to marry you, Tara. When the time was right.'
'Really? And when would that have been?'
'When I was less busy and you were older. My asking you to travel with me was a compromise. I was afraid of losing you. Just as I'm afraid of losing you now. Losing you and our baby.'
My Review:
I love that the hero called her his "girlfriend" (not mistress) and told her he loved her from early on in their relationship. They were an established couple even if because of his career pressures he couldn't spend much time with her. I liked that he was slightly conservative and honourable, it made for a fresh change in the hero. The heroine was a sweet girl who was a romantic and kind of set adrift in life, unsure of what she wanted, and that fit her character in this book. The hero's solution to proving himself as good husband and father material at the end was to uproot his family and her entire family and settle them into a new village that he thought would be appropriate for them, where he thought the heroine would live happily. It was a little too dramatic and life-altering a decision for him to be making and forcing on their families. Very nice ending, wrapped things up nicely.
My Rating: 4/5 stars, pretty good story. I liked that there was love and respect for the heroine, she wasn't just sex.
