Review: Lots of potential but falls short, literally
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 6, 2014
Contains some spoilers***Short and slightly undeveloped.  The first chapter starts out a little awkward and contrived. I honestly felt like I was coming into the middle of a book rather than reading the opening chapter. Still Royston and Miranda have good chemistry and their initial pairing and sparing has sparks. There's a lot of promise for them as an interesting couple negotiating his proposed arrangement but then the story is rushed, the love scenes are lacking, and they fall instantly in love. As other reviewers noted, there is more back-story about his teen years that is referenced and then never revealed along with a ton of other tidbits like she never tells him his sister knows, and we never find out if there's more to her sister's husband, etc. The ending, although a HEA, feels lacking. It would be nice if the author would take the story back to the drawing board and develop it into a full story as it deserves to be. I would have given it four stars if wasn't for the above issues.  3rd person POV narrator.