ABOUT THE BOOK
Cordelia Kane has always been a daddy’s girl—her father raised her alone after
her mother died in a car crash when Cordelia was just two years old. So when he
has a serious heart attack, Cordelia is devastated, and the emotion is only
intensified by the confusion she feels when he reveals the shocking truth about
her mother.
Cordelia can’t suppress her curiosity about the woman who
gave birth to her, and when she discovers the answers to her questions lie in
Sydney, Australia, she travels there to get them.
Hotel magnate Aiden
Madison is Cordelia’s best friend’s older brother. He’s oblivious to the fact
that she’s had a crush on him for years. When he gets railroaded into taking her
along to Sydney on his company jet, he unknowingly puts her life at risk. He’s
recently angered a powerful congressman by refusing to purchase overvalued land.
Congressman Chambers is not a man to let such an offense slide, and he has the
resources to get even and to get what he wants.
In Australia sparks are
flying between Cordelia and Aiden, but multiple attempts on Aiden’s life are
made while Cordelia is with him, and he realizes he must put a stop to the
madness before he loses the thing he values most
REVIEW
This story just didn’t work for me. Aiden was a jerk and it was difficult for me
to root for him to get together with Cordie, no matter how long she had been in
love with him. I can enjoy books
involving domineering men, but Aiden did not seem to have a caring or
compassionate side to him. What was
worse was that everyone just let him do it.
His sister, his brothers… everyone just acted like this was completely
normal. I liked Cordie a little less the
more she allowed it to continue.
OVERALL RATING - 3.5 STARS
MATURITY RATING - 18+ a little steamy
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Julie Murphy was born in 1946 in Kansas City,
Missouri to a large Irish family. At the age of six, Julie had her tonsils
removed and complications from the surgery resulted in a long period of
recuperation. She fell hopelessly behind in school and never caught up. "I was a
slow, slow reader," Julie says. "I hated it." At the age of 11, her mother
discovered her daughter's secret and promptly enrolled her in a summer remedial
reading class. "When I got there the nuns immediately realized I wasn't even
remedial, and Sister Mary Elizabeth was drafted to tutor me." Julie came to know
Sister Elizabeth as a friend and mentor. "She taught me to love the written
word. Of course, some of the vocabulary was beyond me so I had to look up a lot
of words. I sat on a large dictionary -- got up, looked up a word, sat back
down." Julie jumped up and down like a jack-in-the-box all summer.
Julie
married young and had three children. She began her writing career when the
youngest of her three children entered school. After the publication of two
young adult books, she turned her talents to historical romance fiction. Her
first romance novel, Gentle Warrior, was published by Pocket Books in 1985 --
there have been over 20 novels since then. Her name appears regularly on
bestseller lists of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Publishers
Weekly, and her books are enjoyed in many languages around the world. Her
reputation as a masterful storyteller is based on stories with appealing
characters, powerful emotions, and surprising plot twists. Readers claim that
it's the humor as well as the poignancy of her novels that keep them laughing,
crying and thoroughly entertained.
Julie lives with her family in
Leawood, Kansas. When her schedule allows time away from family and career, she
devotes her efforts to promoting literacy, and especially enjoys sharing her
love of reading with student groups.
Comments
Post a Comment