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I love reading and as of now that is fiction only. Love all genres except horror and for the past few years, been gorging on romance. Thrillers are my first love and add some romance to it then all the more better.
A Breathless Bride (Harlequin Desire) - Fiona Brand I was so glad to see Fiona Brand writing again since I loved her SASS series more or less but sadly this book lacked something, the hero never really made up for his assumptions and actions and I felt the heroine let him get away with everything.

I never warmed up to the heroine completely as well, I liked it when she acted cool and composed but I really didn't see her obsession with her business. Two years ago the hero and heroine were engaged but he broke it off because he felt she was involved in a loan offer her father tried to make, but she wasn't.

Now her father is dead and clean up falls to her, he was a gambler and she finds out that the hero now owns everything. I found the accusations the heroine made dead on, it was crass of him to come to talk to her at the funeral.

I also don't like unequal relationships where the one person holds all the power. The hero is the jealous sort and is glad that he is her one and only lover, he had her investigated and even tells her this to his face. He also will do anything to make sure that he is the only important person in her life and not the business she seems to constantly thinks about. Normally, I would find this sweet and romantic in a way but his actions and the executions only made me dislike him.

Even after he knows that he acted wrongly two years ago he is sure that she loves him and he just wants her back. I want to see the hero work for forgiveness and not blithely assume things will fall his way. The marriage contract he drew up was offensive in the extreme and afterwards he is panicked over losing her because of it. I would have appreciated a huge grovelling scene after this instead what we got was the heroine deciding to marry him because she can't imagine her life without him. I wanted her to make him work for her love and not just take whatever he was offering. I like strong heroine's not those who just melt over the hero's & though Sienna sometimes showed promise, in the end I was disappointed.

Even his gesture in the end didn't make up for it because the heroine was willing to take him in any way possible.