Call It Destiny [Mass Market Paperback]

Jayne Ann Krentz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2000

Jake Cavender wants Heather Strand on his terms, not on the terms this cool, calculating businesswoman decided would apply to their marriage. But when she learns he's deceived her, she walks. Later, forced to admit to herself that she truly does love him, this modern woman must choose between her head and her heart -- between her dreams and her desires.

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"A master of the genre...nobody does it better!"

-- Romantic Times

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Mira (February 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1551665638
• ISBN-13: 978-1551665634
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #917,374 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

The author of over 50 New York Times bestsellers, JAYNE ANN KRENTZ writes romantic-suspense, often with a psychic and paranormal twist, in three different worlds: Contemporary (as Jayne Ann Krentz), historical (as Amanda Quick) and futuristic (as Jayne Castle). There are over 35 million copies of her books in print.

Building on the success of her DREAMLIGHT TRILOGY in 2010, Jayne is now focused on writing the LOOKING GLASS TRILOGY. This series will follow the Quicksilver Mirror (a paranormal artifact) through all three of Jayne's worlds covering a time span of several hundred years.

The first LOOKING GLASS book, IN TOO DEEP, will feature Fallon Jones, a recurring character from Jayne's contemporary ARCANE SOCIETY series of novels.

When she's not writing, Jayne can be found at her favorite social networking site posting messages to her fans.

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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars sorry I bought it, April 4, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Call It Destiny (Mass Market Paperback)

I usually enjoy Jane Ann Krentz, but I was so disappointed in this book that I couldn't finish it. Heather Strand comes back home believing that she will inherit the control of the family motel. She agrees to a "business arrangement" marriage to Jake Cavender, friend and business associate of her father's. On the eve of her wedding, she discovers that the hotel was sold to Cavender months ago, and that she was not told because Jake and her father knew she would not return home without the belief that she would be in control of the hotel. They lied (by ommission) about something they knew was important to Heather. It was unforgivable, not just because of the huge lie, but because they were manipulating her. I quit the book when Jake followed his runaway bride-to-be to another motel, and appeared to have every intention of brow beating her with guilt and possibly raping her if he couldn't coerce her into having sex with him. I was outraged on so many levels, and I didn't even get halfway through the book.

21 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Clash of the Titans!, June 4, 2000

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L. S. Tucker (Port St. Lucie, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Call It Destiny (Mass Market Paperback)

Once a wild child, Heather Strand has matured and returned home to take over her father's hotel and enter into a marriage of convenience with Jake Cavender, her father's second in command. Then the night before the wedding, Heather discovers it was all a lie. Jake owns the hotel. Heather must work through her anger, feelings of betrayal, and newly discovered love for Jake. It isn't until danger appears that Heather and Jake work through their fierce independence.

Krentz is known for her Alpha males and strong-willed females, but Jake and Heather must be the poster children. An exciting tale from start to finish.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Call It Drivel, November 24, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Call It Destiny (Harlequin Temptation, No 21) (Mass Market Paperback)

THis is the sort of plot and the sorts of main characters that make me want to give up romance fiction. The heroine, Heather, found out the night before her wedding that she didn't own the resort that she thought was hers: it really belonged to her marriage-of-convenience fiance Jake, who didn't tell her because he thought, with complete justification, that she would back out on the marriage. Am I the only one who found Heather's anger to be completely justified? These heroes of JAK are dishonest with the heroines all the time, and NOTHING HAPPENS. The men get away with it, because it 's for the heroine's own good, of course.(Even the heroine's FATHER is in on the deception in this one-no wonder she can accept being treated so disrespectfully!) Heather is, at happy- ever-after time, agreeing to slave away at the resort that she thought would be hers, but thanks to a pre-nup, not actually getting to own any of it nor seeing a dime in her own name. How likely is it that a fiercely independent woman is going to voluntarily accept not only being lied to and deceived by her man,(who really doesn't think he's done anything wrong-in fact, it was all Heather's fault for being arrogant) but making herself financially helpless? Is she really so stupid and lacking in backbone that she would accept Jake saying that "We'll run the resort together" knowing that she has no real power and certainly no money of her own, and absolutely no security?
If you want a feisty, independent heroine, you have to make winning her somewhat of a challenge.Heather talked a good game, but Jake had her in bed and bowing to his will pretty quickly.
I'd walk out on any man who did to me what Jake did to Heather, and I don't even ride a motorcycle. Let's hope this kind of plot stays in the past where it belongs.