But Adele isn t like the other women who have angled for widowed Jason. Raised in a series of foster homes, she has no model for marriage or parenthood and is resigned to living single and helping children through her profession. She shies away from getting involved with handsome, debonair, wealthy Jason. Which just makes him all the more interested. There is certainly nothing wrong with Bride of Fortune .
Banks knows how to create characters and tell a story.
But there is nothing particularly special about the book either. Indeed, it s a pretty standard tale which I have read, oh, several dozen times before. In addition to the romance, there is a bit of a mystery about who is trying to sabotage the hospital project, a thread that I am sure will be carried through the next four books of The Grooms series. I suppose that all those thousands of other Fortune fans will buy into this new series just as I have.