salythereader

This book had a lot of meat in it for a category & I say it with respect since I am someone who reads & enjoys a lot of them. I have loved Nina Bruhns single titles though her Silhouette one's haven't worked that well for me in the past but I seem to have hit the jackpot today first with Enemy Husband and now with this.

Like the former this one was sexy as hell as well as emotional. We have a hero for whom nothing has gone well in life, his mother was bad, his rodeo career went bust with his injury & the ranch he has toiled on for a decade and hoped of owning may not be his with the arrival of the heroine, the Irish niece of the owner, his best friend who is now suffering from Alzheimer's.

For the heroine the ranch is a fresh start, away from the lies of her ex-fiancee, the farm that should have been hers but was left to her aunt but she finds things very different. The very sexy foreman doesn't seem happy to see her and thinks he has a claim on the place she hopes to make her own, her uncle is sick reminding her of her own mother, who she nursed and finally lost to cancer and the finances are not very good, making it impossible for her to make her way back to Ireland.

Both of them the h/H don't want to give up the ranch, for the hero it the only thing he has believed in life, so he proposes marriage to the heroine right after they get very sexy in a bath-tub [*Hot* somebody call the fire-brigade]. The heroine refuses, she wants a marriage based on love and not convenience.

For most of the book these two go back & forth between being lovers and pissed at each other when being honest about their growing feelings would have made things better. The heroine takes up a job to help with the ranch, whose finances are dwindling thanks to the rustlers wanting to put them out of business.

Soon things turn from lust to love for both of them but they don't feel inclined to share this with each other, still fighting over the ranch. Then her uncle takes a turn for the worse & the resultant things convince the hero that he should leave the ranch while the heroine herself is planning to leave the ranch to the hero.

Of course these two stubborn people do come to their senses. I enjoyed the book, it was emotional & sexy and had depth.