Review: A Well Developed Romance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 8, 2013
So you have Alison Rylee Pierce Morris, now legally known as Rylee Pierce who is a dog trainer at The Canine Academy which resides and is an extension of her own home(condo). She holds a wealthy inheritance from her maternal grandmother, which has allowed her to give away two of those warehouses in that inheritance over to The Adam Foundation in memory of her cousin who passed during his military service. This foundation provides housing for veteran's who have no homes. Although, she is not legally involved with foundation, she is the foundation that holds it together with her finances and involvement as a volunteer. Her best friend Brian and Aunt Sylvia(Sil) are the front of the foundation.Her Aunt has gotten married to a man named Elliott Reed, who is ex-military and the father of a well known lawyer, working at the District Attorney's Office.Elliott and his son Cooper(Coop) have a strained relationship due to an upbringing where Elliott was introduced to a barage of new women every six months, due to the fact that his mother chose to leave and let Elliott raise him all on his own. They both share the same trait of being womanizers. They are both charming, assertive and respectful.Due to Elliott's marriage to Sil and an accident involving an untrained Great Dane named Pippin, Coop and Rylee are introduced and right away a match of sorts begins asserting both their strong traits and their appeal to one another. However, Kylee has a secret-she is the daughter of Wall Street's infamous schemer Ponzi Morris-and this secret kept from Coop for obvious reasons, sets a whirlwind of events in motion that can potentially destroy not only their developing relationship but their businesses and careers.I really enjoyed the love story for various reasons: It was honest in it's insta-attraction and kept away from over the top sweet insta-love scenerios. You actually got to see feelings develop rather than them being there and you just having to go along for the ride. Also while there was a love story, it focused  a lot on the characters as people and their business, careers and relationships with supporting characters. I felt it added depth to the story, which a lot of other stories lack when in the romance realm. It also had it's steamy scenes but they weren't over the top which I deeply appreciated in it's context. You even got to know and love Pippin'.I definitely recommend. I felt I was reading about a real relationship and that is always a plus.