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The Tycoon's Proposition (9 to 5)

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Back Cover description: When Terri Jeppson is informed that her ex-husband is desperately ill, she rushes to his aid. It's not until she gives him a therapeutic massage--on doctor's orders--that she realizes the man at her fingertips isn't her ex at all! He's an incredibly handsome, sexy...total stranger!
Terri has unwittingly found herself up close and personal with international billionaire Ben Herrick. And he has one more surprise for Terri: a shocking proposal. Their unexpected encounter has certainly broken the ice between them--but should Terri take the plunge and accept Ben's proposition?

If you can accept that Ben is building a floating city that will travel around the world, I guess the rest of the story is OK. Both main characters are interesting and the story moves well. It is the floating city I had the most trouble accepting. Also, the brother deserves a story too.

Terri Jeppson has been divorced from her former husband, Richard, for some time. But for all practical purposes the marriage was over even before the honeymoon was finished when Richard revealed his true colors as a self-centered womanizer. Now, out of the blue, Terri receives an urgent telephone call and is told that her husband has been injured in an accident in Ecuador and that she needs to come to him immediately. She is mystified, but agrees to go to him because his employer believes he is still a married man and she does not want to cause problems in case being married was a condition of his employment. When she goes to his darkened hospital room she finds a man wrapped like a mummy who cannot talk because of injuries.

Believing him to be Richard she begins to do all she can to assist him. She soon discovers the man in the bed is not Richard, but since he cannot talk she and the hospital staff cannot learn who he really is. Terri stays and continues to care for him hoping to eventually learn what happened to Richard. Eventually she learns that the man in the bed is Ben Herrick, Richard's employer, and that Richard had been killed in the accident Ben had just barely survived. Surprise! Surprise! Ben and Terri discover they have developed feelings for each other, though neither shares this development with the other.

The story line is interesting, but the reasoning for a "marriage of convenience" between Ben and Terri did not come through as reasonable and believable to me. In addition, I had a hard time accepting the idea of ship longer than four aircraft carriers containing a complete floating city with an airport as base for several large non-helicopter aircraft. The construction cost of such a vessel would be so prohibitive that very few countries could afford it. Add to that the operating costs and we are well into science fiction novel concepts. This was so off the wall that I am surprised Ms. Winters would attach her name to the work. The best I can do is to offer three stars this time around.