Review: 4.25 stars-provocative and intense
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 31, 2014
:  THE DO-OVER is the latest contemporary, romance, adult storyline from author MK Schiller.  The premise focuses on lawyer  Lanie Carmichael and journlalist/womanizer Kyle Manchester.  When an opportunity presents itself, Lanie offers Kyle a proposition-pretend to be her boyfriend and teach her the ways of seduction-so that she is able to seduce and win the heart of fellow lawyer and Kyle's friend Brad. But there are two problems-Brad is dating Lanie's sister Cassie and Lanie is an ugly duckling hiding behind a caustic personality and several layers of clothing.The storyline follows Kyle as he teachers Lanie the art of seduction but in doing so finds himself the one who is seduced.  Kyle is a serial womanizer-a one night stand kind of guy-and he doesn't do relationships. There are secrets in his past and he fears that the his family history runs to close to the surface-but Lanie has a few skeletons in her closet as well and the biggest one of all is her ugly and vile family secret that she hopes will remain hidden from public consumption.The relationship between Kyle and Lanie begins on a blind date where neither one is looking forward to the other. Following Lanie's proposition, Kyle finds himself intrigued by the little ugly duckling bu soon realized that Lanie is a beautiful swan waiting for her moment to shine. And when she does shine, Kyle is pulled into her radiance and loses his heart to the one woman he knows he can never have.There are several secondary characters including Cassie and Brad, Kyle's sister Rachael and Lanie's acerbic mother. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree as it pertains to Lanie's sister and mother but her familial connections are far worse than anyone could have known.THE DO-OVER is a tale of one woman's courage to move forward and make the best of a bad situation; and about one man who is afraid to commit to the one woman who owns him body and soul.  MJ Schiller pulls the reader into a fairy tale for the modern age combining The Ugly Duckling with a story of Cinderella and you have the makings of a romantic storyline where everyone gets what and who they deserve-in the end.