Header PromotionStolen Summer by Anne Mather (HP 843)
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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, his hands sliding down her back to her hips, and as he pressed her against him, she felt the unmistakable proof of his arousal.
‘Oh, Ben,’ she whispered, half protestingly, but his mouth was on hers, and his tongue made a nonsense of her barely formed objections. Without hesitation, her lips opened fully to his, and her arms slid convulsively about his waist.
My Review:
When the hero was 18, he fell into infatuation/love with the 23 year old heroine (who was a young friend of his mothers), they didn't see much of each other then and the heroine wasn't aware of his crush. Now, 8 years later, after a bad split with her married lover, the heroine comes to the hero's mom's home and meets up again with the hero as a man. They are attracted. He's insistant on knowing his feelings, being in love with her, and wants her to admit the same. There's conflict because the hero is engaged to a younger girl and his mother would be hurt by her son and friend getting together.
The chemistry is great between them. There's cheating in this book. The heroine had an affair with a man she knew to be married (though she thought him "separated"). The hero is engaged when he makes love to the heroine, would have preferred him to have ended the engagement before or immediately after. The heroine's just as bad for telling him she wants to continue making love with him, but doesn't want him to dump his fiance for her. Cheating isn't romantic. I liked the H/h as a couple, putting that aside though.
My Rating: 3/5 stars, pretty good minus the cheating.
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