Review: Short and sexy but wanted more depth…
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 14, 2014
Jack Killigrew is a Deputy US Marshall on leave, heading for a visit with his godson and his best friend’s widow, a woman he has been in love with for a long time. He kept the secret of his desires from his best friend while he was alive but he does not want to betray the memory of his friend by moving in on his wife.Rachel Tse has moved on from her husband’s death and is ready for a new relationship. The support Jack has given her during the past two years has made her look at him differently and she now desires him and has to convince him that their being together would be a good thing.Perhaps because of the shortness of the story I did not really feel the chemistry between Jack and Rachel. It seemed that they came together too fast, that it was just lust. Though these two had known each other for two years after Steve’s death we did not see that, this story is of a time past those years and that lack left this reader wanting for more depth before they came together. I did not like how Rachel threw herself at Jack, it was a turn-off. I found Rachel also confusing. There were things she said about the relationship with her deceased husband that made me wonder if she had ever truly been passionately in love with him but then she turns around and tells Jack that if her husband were still alive that there would be nothing with Jack. I felt bad for Jack being told that he could never be more in her heart than second best, I liked him and felt he deserved better of a woman’s love.