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Review: Price of Passion by Susan Napier
The millionaire's baby
Kate had learned certain lessons as Drake Daniels's lover:
Lesson number one: the price of loving Drake was not to love him.
Lesson number two: never give him what he expected.
Discovering she was pregnant certainly fulfilled lesson number two. Drake had made it clear commitment and children were not on his menu. Now Kate must break her news. But when she sees Drake, passion kicks in, begging to be indulged again… just once!
Harlequin Presents are my guilty pleasure and possibly the only line I can really accept the secret baby plot. It just fits. Usually the heroes are overbearing, arrogant jerks; sometimes cruel, sometimes not. Always unavailable for anything but sex. The heroines tend to be different. Some are naive doormats. Some are just TSTL. It's the heroines that I usually don't like. I did like the heroine in this one. She was the perfect combination of strong and vulnerable.
Kate has traveled to Oyster's Cove to break her baby news to her sometimes lover, Drake Daniels. Though they have been on-again-off-again lovers for the better part of two years, they really don't know each other. Kate has respected the boundaries that Drake has set, determined to keep him for as long as possible. That all changes when she realizes she's pregnant. Now she has to figure out how to tell the man she loves that she's having the baby she knows he won't want.
Drake was as arrogant as you'd ever expect from a Harlequin Presents hero, but he wasn't an ass. He was never mean to Kate. Right from the beginning, you could tell he cared about her, but didn't want to care anymore than he already did. He doesn't believe Kate when she says it's only a coincidence that they're vacationing on the same beach, right next door to each other. When he learns the real reason she's there, he's floored. It brings back all sorts of unpleasant memories from his childhood. Memories he'd rather not think about let alone remember.
The best part of this book was how Kate helped Drake heal. It was so unobtrusive. There was nothing she specifically did except listen when he talked. She didn't pity him. She didn't do anything other than be there for him when he needed her. I think that the author did a great job of writing this couple. I was happy with how the book ended and they got their HEA.
3.5 out of 5.
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6 comments:
I saw this and was going to read it, maybe I might have to go back and read it. Great review sweets.
Thank you Casee! I like to induldge with category romances on occasion and this sounds good :)
Of the 4 free harlequins I've read so far, I liked this one best. Nice to read something set in New Zealand and their bantering was fun to read.
Having ebooks to read is convenient only if I have my laptop on me to read them so I tend to forget what ebooks I have since I have them stored on there. Thanks for reviewing this book as I forgot about the free e-books from harlequin.
This is too funny. I read the last Harlequin ebook and that was the first one reviewed on the BB and I started reading this one and now the review is up for it. I cldn't finish it yet b/c I have no time...working at a book store part time really sucks away reading time. But I am really liking the free Harlequin reads.
I love reading eBooks. I can just read them at my desk. I can't decide which of the 15 left to read now.
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