Olivia Rupprecht

Interesting. This book attempted to be more titillating than it really was. The hero, Grant, had basically been in love with the heroine, Cammie, since she had come to live with his family when he was 11 and she was 14. I liked that part and I liked how he had first had a crush on her then fell in love but remained her best friend when she never seemed to see him. When she sees him naked in a hot tub and suddenly sees him as a man, he recognizes the look in her eye and starts chasing her determinedly. All good.

The weirdness was on her part. She is so freaked out about what his parents will say that she doesn't want to get with him. She calls them mom and dad and considers them her parents. That was just not believable. She was 14, she knows they're not her parents. She doesn't seem to have been officially adopted. She is sure that having a relationship with Grant will tear the family apart. I could see where she might be hesitant because if things don't work out, it will sure make family get togethers awkward but that wasn't her problem. She thought that his parents would consider the relationship wrong and incestuous. She had some other issues too with letting people get close that only rang halfway true. Grant just kept hanging in there the poor guy. Not sure if she deserved him.

Still an interesting plot for the most part and fairly well written.… (altro)

DESCRIPTION, NOT REVIEW: Mariah Garnet didn't mean any harm when she sent her older sister's picture to Sgt. Sol Standish—her pen-pal stationed in the Middle East—and forgot to mention that at 18 she's on a fast track to becoming a surgeon like her dad.

Then Sol is badly wounded in combat, and there's no time to straighten things out before Mariah grants him his last wish—her hand in marriage—over the phone.

Sol didn't expect to live, or return home with a battered body and defeated spirit, to face a new bride who isn't at all what he'd expected.

Now Mariah must convince him that she's much more than the little lies that landed his ring on her finger.… (altro)