Review: Cleverly plotted and quickly paced
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 7, 2014
Going in, we know that this is a ‘fake’ wedding without feelings coming to the forefront, since Jack is so anti-relationship and only sees the goal of closing a business deal.  What he doesn’t realize though is that Izzy has crushed on him since high school, and his reappearance in her life has brought all those feelings rushing back.  What Jack does see is Izzy all grown up, and damnably attractive: he always liked her, even if he only thought of her as a kid.Izzy is wonderful, a bit of a soft romantic at heart, she isn’t a pushover and allowing Jack to get away with his badly phrased proposition, and she is convinced that he was romantically attached to her sister, even though she bailed on the plan.Jack was harder to like; he is so reluctant to let go of his troubled and damaged past that he would rather live in it than learn to move forward.  So very immature at the start of this book, I really didn’t think that Izzy would manage to break through the shell and show him that life is for the here and now, not best spent reliving and agonizing over the past.Gradually Izzy’s determination, honesty and flat out belief in love as curing many ills starts to work on Jack, despite his reluctance.  Stolen moments that explore their more sensual side add a touch of steam to the book without becoming so prevalent as to move it from the romance genre: it is contemporary and people do have sex, and their emotional vulnerabilities and true desires seemed to speak through their sexuality more strongly than words alone did.Cleverly plotted and quickly paced, Tracey Rogers has added humor, dreams, love, pain and drama to this novella and come up with a winning formula.  The road to an HEA is not always smooth, but the little bumps along the way added much to the telling of the story and left me smiling.I received an eBook copy from the publisher for purpose of honest review for Tasty Book Tours. I was not compensated for this review: all conclusions are my own responsibility.