Atlanta image consultant Victoria Sharpe is about to give a makeover to the man who broke her heart in college, and a
do-over to a love that always should have been.
SYNOPSIS:
SYNOPSIS:
Looking at her potential client, Atlanta image consultant Victoria Sharpe is convinced the job will be a cross between What Not to Wear and Man vs. Wild. She’d love to turn down the offer, but refusing it—not to mention the referrals it could generate—just might break the bank. Yet, agreeing to make over this man’s image might also break her heart. Again.
Max Brown will
tolerate anything to gain access to his trust fund. Returning to work in the
family business, even submitting to his mother’s demands to trade his
comfortable flannel for Armani is worthwhile if he can get the money necessary
to start a camp for at-risk boys. But then he sees he’ll be working with
Victoria Sharpe, his college girlfriend, the one who got away. Or, really, the
one he left. The impression he makes here will be the most important of his life,
and the person most as risk is himself.
REVIEW
Victoria Sharpe is an image consultant whose business needs
help. When she is offered the chance to
work for a big company, she knows this is the breakthrough her company
needs. However, she is not sure she can
handle working with her ex Max after he left her high and dry. He not only left her, he wrote her a Dear
Jane letter instead of telling her in person.
But Victoria knows that she has to take the job and just put her feelings
for Max aside.
When Max realizes
that his mother hired his ex Victoria to be his image consultant, he couldn’t
believe his luck. He has tried to forget
about her for years, but she was always in the back of his mind. When he sees her for the first time after all
those years, he is not prepared for all the feelings that come to the
surface. Apparently he is not as over
her as he thought.
As the two start
their business relationship, personal feelings start to come to the
surface. Victoria knows that she never
got over him and the heartbreak she suffered after he left. She just isn’t sure she can put herself out
there again and risk getting heart. Max
can’t believe Victoria still has a pull on him after all these years. He is determined to have her while he is
still in town if for nothing else than to quench is thirst for her.
When it comes to
light that Max is only planning on staying a short time and then leaving again,
Victoria is devastated. She knows that
she has to be strong as she didn’t expect them to really have a relationship
anyway. Max is not sure how to come to
terms with his feelings for Victoria. He
is not sure he can handle them and once again leaves. Will they be able to overcome their
past? Will Max finally wake up and
realize that Victoria loves him for who he is and not who he could be? Will Victoria finally reveal the secret she
has kept hidden so long? In order to find
out, you will need to read the book.
I enjoyed this
short book, but really I wished there would have been more to it. I guess that is the price you want to keep
reading a story. I book had moments that
were both funny and heartbreaking. I
enjoyed watching the push and pull between the characters and watching them
grow into better people. I enjoyed the
ending and was happy with how it ended.
It is a quick, sweet read that shows true love never dies.
The persistent knocking at her front door roused
Victoria from a dream where she and Max lived in a log cabin deep in the
Rockies with their child—a toddler with eyes as blue as the mountain sky and
brown hair that curled at his nape just like his daddy’s. The dream was a
recent and recurring one, and she always woke from it a little sad. In her
dream they were a family—together and happy. The location puzzled her because
even though Max had invited her into his world for that one day of hiking, she
knew she’d never be invited in completely. She had wondered, though, what she
would have done if Max had extended that invitation. Cold and snow and
isolation were out of her comfort zone.
She pulled on her robe, grabbed her phone in
case she needed to call 911 and padded barefoot toward the front door, wishing
she had insisted Nick install a peephole so she could see the late-night
visitor. She moved to the window and nudged the curtain aside in the hope she
could see a car parked below and determine her visitor’s identity.
Only one person in her circle of friends drove a
black SUV, but what was he doing here? He was supposed to be in Colorado making
his dream come true.
The knocking intensified. “Victoria, open the
door,” Max yelled.
She opened the door a few inches and glared at
the subject of her dream. Dark stubble covered the lower half of his face and
his clothes looked as if he’d slept in them. It had taken him only two days to
undo weeks of image coaching. Yet she had to admit he wore grungy well. Way too
damned well for her erratic hormones.
“You’re usually not asleep so early on
a Saturday night.” He propped one hand against the door frame.
I’m usually not pregnant and bone tired.
Victoria crossed her arms in a defensive pose,
the pressure aggravating her already tender breasts. “You’re not supposed to be
here. Did you forget the way to Colorado and lose your razor in the process?”
“Can I at least come inside to have this
discussion?”
She swung the door open wide and waved him in.
He strode to the sofa and sank onto it. His gaze swept her from head to toe.
“Nice outfit,” he said with a cheeky grin. “I didn’t know you had a thing for
Superman.”
Victoria pulled her robe around her and tied the
sash tightly around the loose lounge pants and oversized red and blue t-shirt.
“Every woman has a thing for a man who stands up
for truth and justice and comes to her rescue.”
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In 2001, Marilyn discovered Romance novels quite by accident, which led to a renewed interest in writing. She started out by writing fanfiction about Clark Kent, Lois Lane and Superman, which developed into a desire to write about her own characters. She’s had over forty short stories published in the confessions and Romance magazines.
Also, she has taught a class in how to
effectively write for this genre and worked as a researcher and copy editor for
several Romance authors. All this combined to give her a great love of the
Romance genre and helped develop a multitude of friendships in the Romance
community.
She’s a member of Romance Writers
ofAmerica, as well as her local chapter, Heart of Dixie. In addition to
reading, Marilyn loves to knit (as long as it’s only a scarf), cook (in the
crockpot), garden (in a couple of pots on her patio), and her motto is “Have
passport, will travel.” She’d love to add to the list of 32 states and 21
foreign countries she’s already visited.
After raising two great sons, she loves
to spoil... er... dote on her two granddaughters.
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