Review: had potential
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 16, 2014
I didn't read the others in this series so I don't know the back story of this family.  Having said that, it wasn't really necessary to know much.  You get the jist of what happened without having to really read the other books.There was a lot of build up to Nick's wedding and how much he knew something was wrong.  I wish the author had started the story with less of that and more of what happened after he got married to Lecie.  We didn't need to know a single thing about him Ginny except that she robbed him blind.  We could have learned everything we needed to know in a couple of chapters.  It also seemed kind of over the top how much Lecie kept saying over and over how much she liked Nick and was so upset over him getting married that she wasn't going to go to his restaurant any more.  I mean.....really?  She had only been in California for a couple of weeks yet it sounded like she had been pining for him for YEARS.Lecie knew/suspected her new "butler" was a spy for her father yet she didn't seem to think it was necessary for she and Nick to share a room after they were married?  She was concerned her Father was going to get her deported badly enough to fake a marriage yet she didn't even try and hide the fakeness from her Father's spy?  Why bother?  He could have totally reported the fake marriage to the INS with proof.There was NO romance between Nick and Lecie.  There were no kisses....no hugs.....no sexual tension....nothing.  Days into the marriage of convenience she saw what she thought was him getting back with Ginny and she left.....when did they have time for romance?  Thanks for telling me they fell in love, but I want to FEEL it.The biggest disappointment....and the part I had finished the book to see....never freaking happened!  ALL of this was supposed to be thumbing her nose at her father's interference into her life.  I kept waiting for the big scene....the dramatic show down when her father found out she foiled him.  There. Was. Nothing.Then end left me happy for their HEA but beyond disappointed to finally realize how much got left out.