Date published: January 2009
ISBN: 978-0-385-34133-2
Interracial Romance
Paper
Reviewed by Pam
Kendra Tamale returns to England after falling in love with Will, an Australian, causes problems she doesn’t want to deal with. She rents a studio apartment sight unseen over the Internet, then finds herself drawn into the life of Kyle Gainsborough and his six-year-old-twins, Jaxon and Summer.
Kyle is struggling to keep working and to keep his wife from causing anymore problems. He mourns the fact his love for Ashlyn is slowly withering beneath the weight. Meanwhile, Kendra is also weighted down by her love for Will, and what had happened to her before she’d left England.
Kendra works for her long-time friend Gabriel, finding the right people for jobs, but dealing with the receptionist, Janene, makes her working life miserable. Her life begins to unravel even more after Kendra attends a conference and has to face up to yet another part of her past.
The broken girl—broken boy scenario trying to heal scenario, becomes very unbelievable as neither of them ever gets past talking. No normal woman receiving a letter from the love of her life, would leave it lying around unopened for months. As the heroine is also blind when it comes to Kyle the hero, with no real resolution after reading 468 pages it isn’t really worth reading about at all. The story has a disappointing ending, plus the part where Will visits seems to be missing. For a woman longing to have a family and love, then turns it down on every level, the plot and characters need a serious rewrite.
For this reviewer the way it kept switching from 1st person to 3rd, was also a trifle disconcerting at times. This is a tale of unrequited love that sadly never lived up to the readers expectations.
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