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Cold Fire

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Beautiful governess of Hero's 9-yr-old nephew responds defensively with Mexican Hero's romantic overtures. She is attracted to him but she has major her trust issues with men due to her her father's controlling & unfaithful behaviors with her mom. Her protective wall has served to keep interested men away from her but Hero is persistent & her growing attraction to Hero chips away from her defenses.

I've enjoyed other Brooks books (Baby Secret (Expecting) (Harlequin Presents)], [[ASIN:0373033788 Angels Do Have Wings (Sealed With A Kiss) (Harlequin Romance) but this one made me sleepy. Heroines like the one in this book who are so antagonistic & rigid usually get my ire up. But the way this book was written was emotionally distancing so, instead of getting me hot & bothered in a negative way, I got bored & sleepy. I didn't know why Hero kept on pursuing heroine who acted & talked so coldly & offensively towards him. He should've dumped her & shipped her back to England. But I didn't care enough about them to root for the outcome. The description of the book's setting was sadly more intriguing than the characters, romance, & dialogue. Now that's sad.

Setting sounded beautiful but not much else to recommend.

Description from the book back cover:

'I am answerable to no one and everyone is answerable to me.' Jay de Rojas was everything Beth despised in a man. Autocratic, ruthless and hard were just some of the words that described this complex man. Yet the post as tutor to Jay's little nephew came as a godsend to Beth, who wanted to leave behind painful memories of her past. Was she sure, though, that she wasn't just leaping out of the frying pan, into the fire when it came to staying at Jay's Mexican ranch? Beth's resistance was fast running low, and it would only be a matter of time before Jay demanded some answers ...