The Missing Millionaire by Dani Sinclair (HI 1104)

Reviewed by ellysoar on December 11th, 2008, 8:20pm

The Missing Millionaire

Format: eBook

When Jamie Bellman kidnaps rich, engaged Harrison Trent and promises to keep him at a safe house until just after the time of his wedding, she thought she was protecting him from something or someone. But when the safe house blows up, she starts to wonder if she's got all the facts. Harrison for his part is a little stunned when he realizes the sexy bartender from his bachelor party is holding him hostage with the strippers, but after some drugged sexy body rubbing with Jamie, he tries to take control of the situation, stealing Jamie's keys, thus resulting in both of them being out of the house when it blows up. When Jamie takes them to see her father surrogate who asked her to do the kidnapping (she's actually a law abiding bodyguard from another state) and they find Tony and his wife Carolyn shot dead, things become even more complicated. Harrison recognizes his mother's friend CeeCee in Carolyn and starts to wonder if this whole thing might be connected more to his estranged father Victor DiMarko, the notorious crime boss, rather than to his fiancee Zoe. Harrison had thought this was all about Zoe because he's marrying to protect her from her late fiance's killer and to prevent the baby from being born “a bastard” (really!) like he was.

SPOILERS: Turns out Victor's daughter is crazy and is behind the whole thing because she's worried her father will bypass her and leave the organized crime business to Harrison instead of her and her mother. Oh and the mother had Harrison kidnapped as a boy and then was beaten unrecognizable by Victor or something. The thing with Zoe is presumably being dealt with in another book.

I bought this one on the strength of the excerpt but I really should've laid more consideration on the back of the book, as looking back it is clear that this book was never going to turn out the way I wanted it to be. Plus I normally am disappointed by Intrigues, soo... I had hoped it was going to be more of a cabin romance, more focused on the hero and heroine and much less chasing around crime families – I guess I was picturing more of a Blaze. All in all it wasn't bad – just not what I wanted.