3 Stars ~~~ The pacing was a little slow but the ending was fantastic!
The Millionaire’s Convenient Bride by Catherine George
Harlequin Presents #2713 ~ March 2008
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Professional Nanny Hester Ward finds herself between positions so she accepts a temporary summer job looking after eight-year-old Lowri. Hester is quite surprised and pleased that Lowri’s father is the man who mysteriously stopped with his wife at her mother’s B & B when Hester had been a very impressionable teenager. Connah Carey Jones is a widower and very devoted to his daughter. He seems obsessed in protecting Lowri and security around his London home is very tight. In fact there seems to be a strange man watching her. So to avoid this man, Connah takes Lowri and Hester to Tuscany to a friend’s villa. In close quarters, Lowri and Hester quickly form strong bonds and Hester finds her attraction to Connah becoming very difficult to hide. As the vacation in Tuscany is coming to an end, Connah proposes marriage, after all Lowri needs a mother and it’s quite obvious that there is sexual chemistry between them.
I’m not sure how to rate this book. The first two thirds the story was just a sweet story gently developing the characters and keeping the tone very low key. Though we know from the beginning that Hester is attracted to Connah, we really don’t begin to “feel” this attraction until the last third of the book. Actually that’s when the story picks up it’s pace and I no longer felt emotionally detached from the characters. This was a very nice story, and I liked Connah and Hester very much. I just wish there had been more umph to the beginning of the book as there was in the end. Great ending!
Excellence: Good ~ Steaminess: Sensual
My Totals = 72 ~ Harlequin Imprint = 66 ~ Other Publisher = 6
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