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BREAKFAST IN BED

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Sloan Fairchild has spent her entire life feeling worthless. It happens with her family and anyone else she loves. She decided to put herself into her B&B. She was content until Carter Madison came into her life. He was trying to finish his novel, and needed some peace and quiet to complete it. They both felt the attraction, but he was her friend Alicia's fiancé. As they both try to fight their feelings, they fight a losing battle.

This is one of the first Sandra Brown books I read, and find myself pulling it out to reread it again and again. It is a classic story.

Sloane Fairchild has been hurt many times in her life, and has locked her feelings deep inside her, pouring all her energies into opening a bed-and-breakfast inn near San Francisco. Everything she is as a woman is channeled into the inn, which she perfects down to the last detail.

All is going perfectly. Sloane is able to successfully deny her more sensual needs, and take pleasure in her growing business. Until an incredible guest shows up--a man who literally takes her breath away, fight it as she will. Carter turns out to be a best-selling author who needs a hideaway to escape his hectic life and meet the looming deadline for his next book. Sloane is viscerally attracted to him, but fiercely fights it down. Not only is she afraid of involvement, this man is strictly off limits. He is her best friend's fiance.

As the attraction between Sloane and Carter grows despite their best efforts, so does their guilt. Carter is not a lothario, but he is engaged for all the wrong reasons: his fiancee and her two small children have been left behind by the death of his best friend. Lending support and assistance, he found himself offering more. Now that he has met Sloane, he sees the error he has made, but it is too late. He feels he must honor his commitment.

Sloane, now desperately in love, feels the same, and it is almost unbearable. When the two finally make love, having lost their battle to stay apart, the reader is torn as well. Obviously, Sloane and Carter belong together, but is that fair?

The reader is kept on tenterhooks until almost the last page, and the ending is not predictable. This is a lovely romance, one with a conscience, and I recommend it highly.

Sandra Brown's Breakfast in Bed enchants with its ravaging poignancy and emotional crests Ms. Brown raises with her heroine Sloan Fairchild. This book starts with her running a breakfast-in-bed inn in San Franscisco and Amelia, her best friend has introduced her boyfriend, Carter for a stay.

Sloan, with her chilling vulnerability and a woman at heart attracts Carter like no other. Desperately she fights this magnetic attraction for this writer, refusing any form of betrayal. She feels protected and loved in the arms of Carter yet they have to keep their attractions at bay. Sloan is going to find that letting him go is not as easy anymore...

The moral dilemma is handled with professional narrative by Ms. Brown and she has created two memorable characters who decide their path of love together. Her stories are simple with stunning truths - that love is a healer and also cuts in both ways.

Ms. Brown is one gifted writer capable of producing savagely tender stories that grip the readers. Her passionate love scenes is done with exquisite poignancy and sizzling desires. It has no frills but sweeps the readers in a lulling mode with the simplicity. BREAKFAST IN BED is definitely a romance that will be etched in your heart with its cutting poignancy.

This is actually the first book I've thrown away. The characters were shallow, the plot was silly, just no substance. They were ready to jump each other right when they met! I just didn't get it, thought it was really a soft porn story, way too much sex!

This was my first book by Sandra Brown and it was so good I have since read about 20 others. The chemistry between Carter and Sloan sizzles. The choice that Sloan faces is heartbreaking. I could not put this book down until the end. It is definitely a keeper.

"Breakfast in Bed" is very special; because to me, the way these relationships always end up is in misery and all those bad feelings.

Sloan Fairchild is the owner of this elegant bed-and-breakfast inn, and it's called Fairchild House. Sloan focuses all her energy into Fairchild House and in a way Fairchild House is her sanctuary from the outside world, because in the outside world, Sloan has been hurt too many times and she's sort of hiding from it. Sloan promises her best friend, Alicia to let Alicia's fiancé live in Fairchild House for a month. It was a big mistake... because as soon as Sloan opened that door to let Carter Madison into that house, Alicia's fiancé, there was instant sexual tension.

Carter Madison came to Fairchild House, to work on the last chapter of his book. What he didn't expect was to feel the passion and desire for his fiancée's best friend.

Sloan and Carter try to ignore the mutual passion and desire, because of Alicia, but it's very hard. The time comes when Carter ahs to leave, to marry Alicia, but would Carter be able to leave and fulfill his wedding vows to Alicia?

I love this book because of the strong will power Carter and Sloan shows, to restrain themselves of their passion and desire. I think it's really magical and it's really good. I stayed up until very late to finish "Breakfast in Bed" and it was worth it.

This is a sweet book...I had fun reading it. It's very entertaining. I like the ending it was good. Overall this was a great read.

I think it is terrific that Sandra Brown was writing books like this ten years ago. I wish I had discovered her then. This isn't my favorite by her,but it was not bad. I'm always amazed that Ms. Brown can tackle subjects that upon reading the back cover I believed I wouldn't like. She is a master at writing about controversial situations and relationships in a tasteful way. I love everything I have read by this author(with the one exception of ANOTHER DAWN),but my favorites by her are "TEXAS LUCKY", "TEXAS CHASE" AND "TEXAS SAGE".

Heard the taped version of Sandra Brown's BREAKFAST IN
BED . . . written back in 1983, this appears to be one of her
earlier books . . . she was strictly a romance novelist then . . . Brown subsequently shifted gears to write mystery thrillers, many of which I have enjoyed (especially since they are almost always different) . . . what seems to have happened: when she became so popular, her publisher took to reissuing her earlier works in both paperback and cassette versions . . . this surprisingly engrossing tale is about a woman, jilted by her boyfriend, who directs all her energy into running an elegant
bed-and-breakfast inn . . . everything is safe and
comfortable until a successful author appears on her doorstep
to finish his latest project . . . they naturally fall in love; however, the author also happens to be her best friend's fiance . . . I must admit that several steamy love scenes also helped keep my attention . . . Richard Poe's narration was excellent.

I THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD BOOK TO READ. IT'S ALWAYS NICE TO FIND A BOOK TO ESCAPE WITH. I LIKED HOW CARTER WAS SO DEDICATED TO HELP SLOAN'S BEST FRIEND BY MARRING HER WHEN HE KNEW IN HIS HEART THAT THEY DID NOT LOVE EACH OTHER. SLOAN'S FRIEND WAS MARRIED TO CARTER'S BEST FRIEND BEFORE HE DIED, SO CARTER FELT THAT HE NEEDED TO STEP UP TO THE PLATE. IT WASNT UNTIL CARTER MET SLOAN THAT HE REALIZED THAT HE NEEDED TO FOLLOW HIS HEART.
I'M A BIG FAN OF BEST FRIENDS FRIEND'S FINDING LOVE. THAT'S HOW I MET MY HUSBAND. ALTHOUGH THE WHOLE THING WITH NOT WAITING UNTIL THE WEDDING WAS CALLED OFF TO PURSUE THEIR RELATIONSHIPS. I DONT LIKE TO READ ABOUT PEOPLE CHEATING ON EACH OTHER.
ANYWAY A VERY NICE READ, ENJOY ON A RAINY DAY.