His For The Taking (Harlequin Presents Nights of Passion) [Mass Market Paperback]

Julie Cohen (Author)

Book Description

Series: Harlequin Presents Nights of Passion | Publication Date: February 12, 2008

His mistress--for one night?

When New York cabdriver Zoe Drake finds a dark, brooding man on her doorestep, she doesn't know what to think--does he want something, or has Christmas come early this year?

Nick Giroux is looking for his long-lost father--not a newfound woman! But as she helps him in his search, there's something about him that makes Zoe let down her ice-cool defenses. The simmering attraction is too much, and for one night only, she's his for the taking...

But after a night like that, can Nick ever let her go?

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (February 12, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373820690
• ISBN-13: 978-0373820696
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,341,397 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Fine Line Between Strong And Annoying, August 24, 2009

By 

Nike - See all my reviews

This review is from: His For The Taking (Harlequin Presents Nights of Passion) (Mass Market Paperback)

This book did have some good bits, but overall I found the heroine shrewish and annoying. I'm all for strong women, but even though Zoe was sold as an independent person I don't think she pulled it off. She had a lot of attitude, certainly, but it was all on the surface. Underneath she was incredibly insecure, and at times she seemed almost emotionally stunted. There's a good chance she's also mentally stunted because I'd like to know what kind of woman living in New York lets a large strange man into her apartment and lets him stay there because he claims to be looking for his father, without macing him first.

There's one scene in the book where Zoe is crying because of unexpected news and Nick is trying to comfort her. It ends with her snapping his head off over a completely innocuous statement and then running away. I mean literally running away. She does this more than once, which is about two times too many. That's something I'd expect from a four-year-old, not a supposedly grown woman. The problem is is that Zoe only seems to have one setting, and the dial is turned to immature idiot.

The way the conflict is resolved between them was a cop-out: Nick hates cities (he has to since he's a park ranger) and Zoe (who has lived in a city all her life and makes a lot of noise about how much she loves New York) agrees to pick up her entire life and move out to the country because . . . she's tired of fighting her attraction to Nick and apparently everything she said about herself up until the last five pages of the book was a lie. Okay then.