Review: Unbelievable!!!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 11 30, 2013
I don't even know how to describe this book.  At the end of the book, I didn't feel like I "knew" or cared for the hero or heroine. Heroine runs from bad man, faints at the feet of a doctor.  Doctor gives her a place to stay...bad man follows.  They actually spend very little time together throughout the entire book.  There are a few tepid references to him finding her attractive.  The author tends to skip what might have been the good parts of the book.For example: At the end of chapter 8, heroine has been attacked and rescued from the bad man again.  Aunt Millie visits her bedroom to tell her how our "hero" needs a wife and children of his own,  heroine says "....I'm not a women fit to be wed to a respected physician" but chapter 9 begins with "Friday morning, Elliot (our hero) stood by Alex facing Reverend Altman. After Aunt Millies's talk with Keara (heroine), Elliot had proposed the following morning, and Keara had accepted."  Really??? We missed it all!!!Through most of the book, we were lead to believe the heroine might have been sexually abused, or forced into work at a brothel. But on her wedding night we discover she has "never been with a man".  Still, the author continues to hint at a sordid past that Keara is afraid to tell Elliot of, she's afraid he'll divorce her.Finally, bad man kidnaps Keara.  Of course Elliot rescues her. This is when they finally declare their love for each other, in a very tepid way.  No chemistry at all with these two.  This happens in May, the book then skips ahead to September.  Where we learn that she has been a good wife to Elliot but he's knows shes holding something back from him.  She doesn't know how to tell him she's pregnant, afraid he won't want somebody with her "past" as Mother to his children.  Seriously??? He's been married to her for months!!!  Finally, she tells him she's pregnant, and he needs to know her whole history.  At which point he tells her he doesn't need to know, they should just look forward to the future with the 3 of them.  Neither the hero, nor the reader knows for sure what her history is.Will I read this one again?  NO WAY!!!!