Kay Clifford

Book wasn't bad - the heroine was likeable without being too boldly assertive but not a doormat either. She's secretly rich of course so the whole "are you there for my money?" thing works from both ends - hers and the heros. The story is an unusual set-up as she goes with her employer, no romantic interest, to pretend to be his honey bun to fool his ex-wife. Meanwhile she falls in love with the host, and he with her.

I had issues because she put such huge emphasis on virginity until marriage and then I think let go of it much too easily, just didn't make sense. And I see no reason for her to be so attracted to him because he didn't have an award winning personality and hardly seemed around enough at first to build it up convincingly.

Their mouse and cat chase game ended up fun, though, so it was completely readable, even if it didn't stand out as too interesting.… (meer)

After recovering from pneumonia heroine Lorna Masters (an English nurse) receives advice from her doctor to take it easy and stay away from the hospital she's working at---try an easier job till she gets her strength back---maybe go into private nursing temporarily.

Lorna eventually accepts a job as nanny for a rich Arab family that is staying in England for awhile (Dana Rashid and her husband Hassan.) One day Lorna meets Dana's handsome half-brother (hero) Khalid while he is visiting (he lives in Kuwait). He seems to disapprove of Lorna and they argue a lot. He has a problem with career-oriented women from "the west". (His English mother abandoned him for her decorating career when he was young---his mother wanted to stay in England and not move away, so his father moved back to Kuwait and remarried, taking Khalid with him.)

After his father died Khalid took over his responsibilities and has forced his sister, Dana, into an arranged marriage (that isn't working). Dana is in love with Lorna's doctor-brother Allen, who Dana met in a hospital in Kuwait. Dana wants a divorce, Khalid wants her to stick to tradition. But after seeing how unhappy she is with her uncaring/unfaithful husband Khalid eventually changes his mind.

I found Khalid to be a bit annoying at times with his out-dated views on women but he surprisingly grew on me by the end of the book. I liked Lorna, she was a good heroine. I also enjoyed both romances, the main couple Lorna and Khalid and Dana and Allen.

A satisfactory story with lots of tension, a car crash, secrets, etc...… (meer)