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Web of Darkness

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Heroine slaps businessman hero upon meeting him at his business press conference as a reaction to long-held vengeful feelings towards him. She blames hero's company for ruthlessly ruining her dad's business & precipitating his early demise. Hero tries to understand her reasons but heroine thinks he's just manipulating her forgiveness & continues to fight him & her attraction towards him.

As far as Brooks' books go, this was good. The intense animosity the characters, especially heroine, felt for the other kept this book moving along. I liked heroine's emotional strength, intelligence, & direct no-nonsense approach. I didn't like her violent impulses though--slapping & kicking hero in her rage, which is not characteristic of heroine's typically more controlled personality. So I guess hero brings the worst in her. I just wish her passionate energy wasn't spent on such violent aggression though. Hero, on the other hand, was likeable in his brooding & arrogant demeanor that was tempered by his more subtle kindness & integrity. I liked that he was patient with heroine's acerbity yet wasn't a doormat about it. Sexual chemisty was good & love scenes only limited to foreplay. No sexual consummation included.

Somewhat recommended.

Janie Gordon hated Kane Steel, he had caused her father Paul to not only lose his business, she blamed Kane for her father's early death.
Although Kane had no idea what Janie was talking about when she interrupted a press conference, by slapping him in the face and accusing him of corrupt business practices that ended up killing her father.
Then after her dramatic entrance she left, without her coat or her handbag.
Kane found Janie and tried to find out what she was talking about.
Janie thought she had lost her job in advertising, but her boss Joe kept her on.
Kane found out she was right about his company running her father out of business, and he offered to pay her the money her father should have gotten in the business deal.
Janie told Kane she only wanted her father back.
Kane later found Janie suffering from the flu, he took her home with him. His parents thought she was Kane's love interest, they were right, but Janie didn't know that.
Kane's sister-in-law Tina knew, and she started ragging Janie when ever she got the chance. Kane told Janie that Keith his brother was killed when he ran his car into a wall, that he had not tried to stop, because Tina wanted Keith to be a tougher man like Kane.
Tina was at their home for Xmas, because she had two kids by Keith, the children loved their grandparents and Kane, he felt he couldn't make the kids pay for who their mother was.
When Janie got home she found the papers threatening her father, by K. Steel, not putting 2 + 2 together, she let all her anger fall on Kane, he told her it was Keith, not him, but he was as ashamed of Keith's actions as Keith was. Kane told her he thought this was why Keith killed himself, because he had turned into the kind of man Tina, but lost his own identity in the process.
From the back of the book: 'Getting even with the irresistible tycoon... Kane Steel had everything-money, power. But it was all at the expense of Janie's father, and now she wanted revenge...
If only Kane wasn't as clever as he was handsome. No matter how hard Janie tried, she couldn't beat him at his own game. He was a master of passion, and the more Janie struggled, the more she became entangled in his web of seduction...'