Review: Romantic & Suspenseful!!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 23, 2012
Maxine (Donatelli Series) by Author Sue Fineman is a very enjoyable novel. The main characters, Cara Andrews and Nick Donatelli captured my heart right at the onset.The suspenseful plot develops at a captivating pace as it quickly engages its audience in the theme of the novel. Cara learns news of the upcoming betrayal of her husband Lance and the double life he is leading with someone on her staff. Cara, as an heiress to one of the wealthiest estates, realizes he has married her for her money and intends to put her in a sanitarium. She flees her home and rents a small isolated cabin in order to figure out how to remedy her situation when an earthquake threatens her very existence. Under the rubble and fighting for her life, Cara is rescued by her rough and tumble neighbor, Nick Donatelli. He comes with a sad story of his own but he brings with him a close knit Italian family who manage to save Cara from more than the effects of the earthquake. Nick quickly takes Cara under his wing as she adopts the name Maxine Donatelli to hide her true identity, not only from her husband but from the hounding of the persistent newsreporters.I thoroughly enjoyed the transition from the shy, almost mousey personality of Cara, into her alter ego/persona, Maxine, as she painstakenly takes charge of her life and her estate. The sensually charged romance between Cara and Nick add to the reader's delight. There was one specific sex scene that took me by surprise. As predictable as the love affair between Nick and Cara might have been, all the other sub-plots contribute to this well-written romantic suspense novel. I look forward to reading more books by Author Sue Fineman!