Jake Cavender wants Heather Strand on his terms, not on the terms this cool, calculating businesswoman decided would apply to their marriage. But when she learns he's deceived her, she walks. Later, forced to admit to herself that she truly does love him, this modern woman must choose between her head and her heart -- between her dreams and her desires.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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When Heather Strand had been wild and rebellious, she waved goodbye to her family as she rode away on the back of a Yamaha motorcycle with Rick. Her father wanted her to take over the family business, the Hacienda, an upscale hotel with no equal in the near area. Father and daughter were just too alike and clashed too often.
Now Heather returns home. She has proven to herself, and everyone else, that she could succeed on her own in the hotel business. Her father is stepping down and she is taking over. She also plans to wed her father's right-hand man, Jake Cavender. But on her wedding night she finds some business files and learns that she has been betrayed by Jake and her father.
**** This is one of Jayne Ann Krentz's older novels. Personally, I believe her older novels are her best works. I recently reread this one and loved it as much as I did the first time years ago. The author puts some real tension between her main characters, reasons that are believable and not simply misunderstandings. ****
Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.
8 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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If you are a fan of JAK, then steer well clear of this disapointing re-print of one of her early works. It is absolutely dismal - not at all the quality you would expect. The usual components are all there - the bossy, self-assured heroine and the arrogant, over-protective male, but in this book the ingredients don't turn out right at all. The biggest problem is that, while most JAK alpha heros are willing to lie to protect their heroine (Which we can forgive) this one perpetrates a really terrible con, fooling and humiliating her in public for his own gain. I simply couldn't forgive him for it - especially since he shows no remorse, and in fact goes further, again, for the purpose of his own gain. Bythe end of the book, the formerly confident and intelligent heroine has been reduced to accepting a post as the hero's 'Mistress' - he makes her give up her job, her apartment, and totally wrecks her self-asteem with such constantly repeated admonishments as: "Now honey, you're getting upset again." and: "Don't be silly Sweatheart." His patronising tone stood out from the pages so clearly it made me grit my teeth. If you feel you must read this, get it from the library, because it isn't worth a penny - an aberration in the career of an otherwise talented writer.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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JAKS prints are somewhat dated since they are 12 - 15 years old, but some don't show the wear and withstand the test of time. This one sort of walks the fine line. I got a little irked by the arrogance of the female character, but as the book went along it turned out well.
Heather was the headstrong daughter of a hotel owner in Tucson. At 18, the last the family saw of her was her waving bye bye from the back of a Yamaha (sheesh JAK, you could have shown some class and made it a Harley, but this was not in the heyday of the Harleys so I shall excuse this!! lol). 10 years later she had come home to assume, what she presumes is the reigns of the family business. Her father is ready to retire and she is itching at the bit to be boss. She also decides that a marriage of convenience - a partnership, is just what she needs so she proposes marriage to Jake Cavendish, her father's business manager. On the night before the marriage, Heather learns she is not to take over the family business, because Jake already owns it and he would be boss, not her. Kicking off her well controlled image, she dons her bike outfits, rolls up to the curb of the church and tells the groom in front of the guests just what she thinks of him.
Naturally, in JAK it is a battle to the end between two headstrong people that find love is the winner.
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