Title: Betrayal—Choosing Family Book 3
Author: Jennifer Raines
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Book Blurb:
They are wary of trusting, but … passion has its own rules.
Marketing manager, ANNA TURNER promised reliable, affordable childcare to co-workers under pressure. Proud of negotiating the perfect lease for her employer, a hostile takeover of the building steals her ideal premises.
Architect and property-developer, HUNTER THOMPSON, smells betrayal on his father’s breath. An old pattern, but this time his old man plans a hostile takeover of a building owned by the family who raised Hunter as a second son. Hunter out-manoeuvres his father, buying the building himself.
Attending an industry cocktail party, Anna hears Hunter say her magic word, “architect”. Revealing her ideal childcare centre plan to him, Anna discovers Hunter tore up her precious lease. Anna is breathtaking in her rage. Intrigued, Hunter offers a new lease, with the opportunity to work together.
Hunter can’t risk long term. Anna doesn’t do hook-ups—ever. Hidden within their whirlwind romance and growing trust, secrets resurface with devastating consequences. Anna’s mantra—‘I share myself, you share yourself, if you want to get into my bed’—may not survive.
My Review:
Anna Turner is a marketing manager who has a passion for helping her employees find daycare. Just when she thinks she lands a contract for a center, it’s pulled out from under her through a hostile takeover of the building.
It appears her proposed center has become collateral damage in a battle between father and son. Wouldn’t you know she meets the son, Hunter S. Thompson (yes, like the Gonzo journalist), at a party. He’s handsome and there’s an immediate attraction. And he’d like to make amends by designing the space and offering her the contract again. Can Anna trust him?
Jennifer Raines has written a page-turning story that’s more than a romance. This story is complex and seductive. It pulls you in with its characters and dialogue. The story includes some serious topics, and she talks about them with compassion and clarity.
And speaking of characters, they’re amazingly real. Their conflicts, triumphs, and secrets touched my heart. Anna is a strong woman with vulnerabilities she often keeps hidden. Hunter is a man whose father sees him as competition, not only in business, but with women as well. How the two deal with their own issues and their relationship is one of the aspects that make this story so compelling.
The story’s theme is family. Sometimes the family you choose is more loyal and loving than the one you’re born into. Raines shows us the lessons both Anna and Hunter learn along the way about trust and openness. I especially loved how Anna’s family and friends welcomed Hunter into their circle and adopted him.
If you’re looking for an enemies-to-lovers romance that reflects real life, yet offers you a satisfying happy ever after, you’ll love Betrayal.
My Rating: 5 stars
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Author Biography:
Australian Jennifer Raines writes sensuous contemporary romances set mainly, but not exclusively, in Australia—think Malta, Finland, New Zealand or? A dreamer and an optimist, her stories are a delicious cocktail of passion, mutual respect and loyalty because she still believes in happily-ever-afters.
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Reviewed by: Terry