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A Reason To Love (Arabesque)

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I enjoyed this romance book. It was sweet story. Niki Hamilton is a doctor fighting the HMO system and it leaves her burned out. She takes a vaction to help her good friend run her Dating service and meets the man who steals her heart. In the story King-Gamble weaves in a story where Niki Hamilton finds out who is trying to ruin her career. I found this to be excellent.

Niki Hamilton is a pediatrician in San Francisco. She has lost three patients in the last couple of months. The death of the last child leaves Niki so upset, that she decides to visit her friend Kim who lives in New Jersey. We first meet Kim and Niki in the book Remembrance. Kim who has been a playboy bunny and has been married so many times, you loose count. Kim owns a dating services called Coffee Mates. Kim has a family emergency, so Niki ends up running Coffee Mates while she is gone.

Cary Thomas is the owner of his own landscaping company. Cary is contracted to complete a landscaping job for Kim. He arrives and meets Niki. Niki thinks Cary is just a common laborer. Cary wants to get to know Niki better, so the only way to do that is to pose as a customer for Coffee Mates.

Niki is being threatened by someone and the turn of events makes her very nervous. She is confronted with information about some of her closest friends and colleague. Now who will she trust, when everyone looks guilty.

A Reason to Love started out kind of slow, but picked up as the story went on. I think the mystery was good, you think you've figured it out and something else happens. To get familiar with Niki and her friends read Remembrance first before A Reason to Love.

This book was so slow and downright boring. I couldn't find the happiness or the wild romance that Ms. King-Gamble is famous for. It took me three weeks to read this book. I just kept putting it down and reading something else. I read 4 books while trying to get through this one. It just never got interesting with Niki & Cary hiding their true professions and waiting until the end to reveal their true feelings; and even the most amatuer slueth could figure out Phillip was the culprit causing Niki so much trouble, long before the last 3 or 4 pages. After getting halfway through, I decided to just finish this book & get it over with and I must say it never picked up. The ending was boring and seemed a little rushed. This one is definately not one of the author's best. Thank goodness I got this one at a yard sale.

Take a good story line, mix it with misplaced words, sketchy thoughts, blurry imagery and you just might be writing a book similar to this.

The author had good intentions. The novel, with a little work could be a great book. I was thrown several times by the situations presented, the characters' reactions and misuse or over use of words.

Two people who aren't looking for love and its inevitable complications meet and are immediately drawn to each other. For personal reasons, neither one is totally honest with the other. Niki, the disenchanted pediatrician, is running from hospital problems and an apparently crazed stalker. Cary, a landscape designer, just wants to raise his son and possibly date, if the woman likes children. A REASON TO LOVE starts off slowly by building characters and creating romantic scenery. Then the tempo builds as the stalker continues to terrorize Niki. At the same time, Cary dedicates himself to making Niki love him for himself. The unveiling of the mystery stalker is superb. The cover of the book could have been more appealing. It tends to make one think that the book is a comedy, while it is not. Also the cover does not reflect the physical traits of the protagonists, as they were described. However, this is a good book, a realistic love story with a different twist.