THE OTHER HALF OF YOUR HEART [Kindle Edition]

Janis Susan May (Author)

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Product Description

Trying to get away into the night, Cara is not sure who the good guy is or who is the bad one. Will she find out before it is too late?

Cara Waters thinks she?s the luckiest woman in the world. Hunky ex-football player Buck Tarrant has swept her off her feet. After promising her a trip to New Orleans, he suddenly took her to Mexico instead. While there Cara is disturbed to see fellow coworker Dave Burkhart following them. Back home Dave has been stalking her there. Cara and Dave barely escape as they run for their lives through the forbidding, dangerous Mexican jungle. Perhaps more dangerous is that they have to do, trust each other and forge an uneasy bond until they can return to civilization.

As they flee Cara realizes nothing is as it seems. She must fight for her life without really knowing why.

Who is her enemy? Who will help her or even believe her?

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 281 KB
• Print Length: 180 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Red Rose Publishing (February 4, 2008)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0013HU9UU
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #711,111 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

Janis Susan May is a seventh-generation Texan and a third-generation wordsmith who writes mysteries as Janis Patterson, romances and other things as Janis Susan May, children's books as Janis Susan Patterson and scholarly works as J.S.M. Patterson.

Formerly an actress and singer, a talent agent and Supervisor of Accessioning for a bio-genetic DNA testing lab, Janis has also been editor-in-chief of two multi-magazine publishing groups as well as many other things, including an enthusiastic amateur Egyptologist.

Janis married for the first time when most of her contemporaries were becoming grandmothers. Her husband, also an Egyptophile, even proposed in a moonlit garden near the Pyramids of Giza. Janis and her husband live in Texas with an assortment of rescued furbabies.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2.0 out of 5 stars Totally implausible even for a romance, December 15, 2009

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Deborah Verlen "Deborah" (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
(TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (VINE VOICE)   

This review is from: The Other Half of Your Heart (Paperback)

Where to begin? How about a synopsis of the story.

Cara Waters works for a pharmaceutical company that is on the edge of creating some cutting edge medicines. She is basically an office manager for the Research and Development section. She has a macho, ex-football player boyfriend named Buck. She complains to Buck that she keeps seeing one of the R and D scientists, Dave Burkhart and thinks he is following her. Buck basically says she is imagining it. They are suppose to go on a romantic weekend to New Orleans, but at the very last minute Buck switches their tickets to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Cara is excited because so far her romance with the gorgeous Buck has not gone beyond a kiss or two. She feels once they are in romantic Mexico he will propose and they will live happily ever after.

Instead....

Now that Buck and Cara are in romantic Puerto Vallarta Buck is acting strange. She gets kidnapped by Dave Burkhart. And to sum the rest of the book up--she and Dave are kidnapped and kidnapped and kidnapped. Really, how many times can you be kidnapped in one book?

The basic plot which has to do with the theft of pharmaceutical formula is plausible, but the rest of the book is not. Buck is incredibly one dimensional and there is a twist in his feelings for Cara that a savvy romance reader can probably see coming from a mile away. And of course, there is the legend of the other half of your heart--so who is it for Cara? Dave or Buck? As a reader you won't trust Buck one inch from the beginning of the story, so that leaves Dave.

The plot is totally implausible aside from the formula. The characters aren't defined and developed enough for you to care about who ends up with whom. I found myself just turning pages faster and faster to get through the mess. Is it the worst book I've ever read? No. However, it was a really lukewarm read.