I hadn’t read a Silhouette Desire in a while, but when I saw this one at the bookstore I thought that I would give it a try. It turned out to be a great spur of the moment purchase. The author does a wonderful job of creating characters that I cared about and was rooting for the entire book.
The heroine, Kara deMontaine is attending wedding and is caught tearing up by Guillermo de la Cruz. This wouldn’t be a problem except that Kara was starting to get teary eyed before the ceremony. She was feeling that little clutching feeling that women start to feel when they are single and attending someone else’s wedding. (The kind of feeling that causes us single girls to calmly step out of the way when the bouquet is thrown.) Kara is also dealing with her feelings of inadequacy. She is an heiress who is used to traveling in high society, but who is also used to being the bigger girl in the group. (she’s a size 12… i know, doesn’t seem too bad — but we all have our issues)
Gui, noticing Kara’s tears convinces her to talk to him about their cause. Kara does and then rushes to get away from him and return to the wedding. Later at the reception, in order to prove to her friends that she knows Gui, Kara asks him to dance. It is this dance that changes the course of their lives. The dance is interrupted by Elvira, one of Gui’s old flames. After years of Elvira attempting and at times succeeding in making Gui jealous, he takes this attempt to get back at her and announces that he is engaged to Kara.
As the story continues the couple get to know one another and find that perhaps a marriage is not such a bad idea. Kara’s issues with her weight continue to cause problems and Gui’s rough past with Elvira do not help, but in the end they are able to work it out.
As a whole I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The one thing that caused me to feel a little iffy about assigning this book an A was the hurried ending. I would have liked to see more explanation of their reasoning for returning to one another. The ending just felt a little off to me — but because I enjoyed the rest of the book so much, I’m assigning it a decent score of a B.
Grade: B
