Author: Judy Christenberry
Line: Silhouette Romance
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373197624
My Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Hank Brownlee needed help with his grieving father and the solution - a middle-aged housekeeper to be his companion. However, he accidentally hired a young widow with a little boy in tow. Of course he wanted to fire her on the spot, but upon seeing the life come back to father's eyes, hope for normalcy made him change his mind. But normalcy didn't include falling in love with the family. Will their fears keep them apart?
Is it possible to be annoyed with your main characters? After reading this book, clearly you can be. The main problem with our intrepid hero and heroine was the fact that they were vastly immature despite their age and life experiences. For example, Hank would decide on his own that Maggie's son needed his own room and puppy without asking if it was okay. Mind you, they were not in a relationship. Reading their thoughts was such a trial to wade through. But on the upside, every single side character was awesome. They made this book bearable. Everyone else were the level-headed ones and gave good advice which Hank and Maggie pretty much ignored. Without their involvement, there wouldn't even be a romance to read about. And plot-wise . . . there wasn't much going for it either. The story felt like it had no direction and events happened rather abruptly, like bam, bam, bam. The romance itself was awfully lacking. I was not feeling the love. They didn't really grow as a couple and the abrupt proposal at the end felt rehearsed.
Note: This is a clean romance.
The writing and the side characters saved this book from being tough to read. In the end though, skip it. I couldn't just invest myself in the characters. Immature hero and heroine and flat plot made this book a total miss.
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