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Death changes everything. But so does love.
When Tess Spencer's twin brother is killed overseas, she questions her patriotism and everything else she's ever believed in. Until, by accident, she ends up with the missing computer of Cole Harrington, CEO of Harrington Industries. Captain Cole Harrington, recently returned from a year's deployment in the Middle East.
Falling in love has never been this easy…or this impossible.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
While I didn't hate it,,
This review is from: Rules Of Engagement (Harlequin Large Print Super Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)
I certainly didn't like it either. True, the general concept is intriguing: a woman grieving for her deceased soldier brother makes a connection to another living soldier when she reads the living soldier's letters stored on a laptop she found in a file cabinet, which she bought in an auction.
However, the living soldier had stored some sensitive information on the laptop and spends the entire book suspecting the woman and her family of deleting the information and otherwise working to sabotage his failing software company. These suspicions thrive until the very end of the book even though the woman didn't even get the laptop until after his company was already swishing down the potty. Also, the woman's offer to give/loan him money to shore up his company is also met with suspicion even though she stupidly hands him a check without a contract or any other agreement. COME ON, if push came to shove, he could have told anyone asking that it was a gift and challenge her to prove otherwise!!! Also, the woman spends the entire book bouncing between weeping on the suspicious CEO's shoulder, soapboxing about the waste of war, and fundraising/campaigning for all of her anti-war causes. You don't really get to know her as anything other than a weepy, sorrowful, antiwar, restaurant manager with a huge family, 2 dogs, and a cat. Of course, she doesn't want to date him (even though she regularly hunts him down) because he wants to re-up in the Army reserves. He wants her and doesn't understand why she hates the idea of him in the military. He's determined to re-up because he wants to do his duty. In the last chapter, she suddenly decides (in spite of spending the entire book on an anti-war rampage) that she can live with the idea of him in the military. Of course he saves his weepy little love interest the trouble when he, Mr. Noble-Do-Your-Duty-Suspicious-CEO-GungHo-Soldier guy, swears to not re-up and to, instead, serve his country by visiting ailing veterans. I couldn't suspend my disbelief. He was all about military service and she despised everything about it. If fact, her hate of the war consumed her - it made her a one-dimensional character. How could that relationship possibly work? How could you "Love" someone who was fundamentally opposed to one of your core values,or in her case, her only value?
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
intriguing military romance,
This review is from: Rules of Engagement : Hometown U.S.A. (Harlequin Superromance No. 1305) (Mass Market Paperback)
When Army Reservist David Spencer was called to active duty, he told his sister Tess not to worry. Not long after he died in Iraq and had a military funeral back home in Texas. Since her brother's sacrifice, she no longer believes in the Iraq War nor much else patriotic.
Six months later Army Reservist Cole Harrington has returned from a year of service in Iraq to find his software company run into the ground. Much of the designs he developed before his deployment is lost and Cole's laptop is missing. At an auction Tess buys a desk for her family's Spencer Restaurants that contains a laptop inside. She opens the file marked letters and finds commentaries so different from the cheerful notes her brother sent home. This Cole Harrington was a captain struggling with the deaths of his young soldiers. Tess feels an urge to give his family his letters as she assumes he died. Cole is cold and offers money so Tess walks out on him. Though his designs remain missing, Cole finds Tess at a Spencer Restaurant and apologizes. As they begin seeing one another, they fall in love, but he still believes in the noble cause while she objects to the deaths of the young by the privileged. This is an intriguing military romance though Cole is back as a civilian as the Iraq War serves as a matchmaker and divider. Tess is a delight condemning chicken hawks sending the young of others to die; Cole on the other hand believes in the war's cause, but detests the sound bites that hide the horrors of war. The software issue takes a back seat to the superb warring romance. Harriet Klausner
5.0 out of 5 stars
A very special book,
By Eve Donnelly "Eve" (Nantucket) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Rules of Engagement : Hometown U.S.A. (Harlequin Superromance No. 1305) (Mass Market Paperback)
I found this to be a warm and thoughtful book with genuine characters facing the problems of today's world. The heroine was torn by the loyalties she was raised with when faced by the untimely death of her twin in the Iraqi war. I think the author avoided making that a neat, easy decision which too many writers fall prey to. There was angst, but, with a serious backdrop like the true realities of war, there's going to be angst. I thought this made the book that much more compelling. I identified with the characters and the difficult decisions they were having to make. It's not a black and white world -- this wasn't a black and white "formula" book. I say hats off to the author for approaching this delicate subject with grace and insight. I thought the secondary plot was handled well. I especially loved the realistic portrayal of the heroine's family business, the rich detail. The characters' growth enabled them to see past their vast differences to the common ground that rooted their love. It's what makes a great romance. This one's going to stay in my bookshelves forever.
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