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His Mistress By Arrangement (Harlequin Large Print Presents)

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26 year old Emma is a very successful careerwoman but with that comes a non existent love life. One day she hears her co-workers talking about her and she feels very hurt. Enter our hero, Jake, who was Emma's next door neighbor and their respective sisters are best friend. Of course, he's the usual handsome, successful, rich playboy =P She approaches him to say hello and before you know it they are sharing a very steamy kiss. In her case partly to show the gossiping women a thing or two. Making long story short, Jake makes a deal with Emma for them to pretend to have a steamy affair to show the others that's she's not the poor workaholic with no life that they see her to be. OOopps! You know when you embark in such a deception, things are bound to happen - like love haha!

I really like this book because though it seemed fun and lighthearted and sweet, we get to see the heroine's personality and her self discovery of herself. You definitely learn more about her and why she became that way. You also get to read both characters thoughts and motivations. You read the heroine's thoughts and the hero's thoughts so that was cool. You get to read how they fall in love together - not just kiss, boom, I love you. The only thing I was a little semi annoyed was how the word "condom" was just thrown around sorta, haha. I've been so used to reading the old HP novels where you don't really read anything about "protection". I guess thats how modern HP novels are. Yeah, I'm a prude. But anywayz, this book was really good. I might even check out other novels of hers since I enjoyed this one so much.

All of her life Emma Delaney had to live up to her father's expectations, work.....achieve.....be the best and she's not only become a workaholic, she has no social life and her co-workers look at her as a "buttoned-up" and uptight person.

Jake Rendel is someone from her past, a neighbour and his sister is Emma Delaney's sister's best friend. As a young girl she adored him and now he's here at the hotel where she works and he's going to be in charge of the renovation! He's handsome, sexy, and full of charm and every woman on the property is drooling over this self made man and millionaire. Emma also remembers how Jake took care of his mother and family and also remembers the "crush" she had on Jake.

Upon seeing Emma and watching how her co-workers treat her Jake's heart aches for her. He can still remember how harsh her father was with Emma and her sister, always pushing them to be the best and Jake felt her father never appreciated Emma and her achievements. In fact, he remembered back to one day when as a young girl he found her crying because her report card did not have perfect marks. And now, he finds he's going to be working with her and observes how her female co-workers look at her so he decides he's going to help her by pretending to be her lover. Can Jake provide a little fun in her life, get rid of her bad rep with her co-workers and help transform her, make her believe in herself?

His Mistress by Arrangement was a beautiful love story, it' was the chase, their attraction for each other and how everything backfired for both of them. It touched me deeply as the book is actually a journey in self discovery for Emma and the realization of how she had put her dreams and hidden them from everyone especially those who meant the most to her, her family and all because they wanted her to be successful so they could brag. As for Jake, this incredible man wanted only the best for Emma, he wanted her to have those dreams, trying to teach her to take a risk and if she wasn't the best, he would still love and support her. As for Emma, could she fight that fear and ask for what she wanted? You are going to want to read this wonderfully written love story by Natalie Anderson as it is so moving, emotional and the happy ending spectacular!

The cover of this book is the same as The Sicilian Marriage of Sandra Marton. Except this one is zoom in a bit.