The Seductive Impostor

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Summary: I loved it!
Review: I really loved this book! There was great flow to the story that had me sad to see it end! I felt the hero and heroine were very likable, and they had excellent sexual tension--one of the main things I look for in a book that makes it to my keeper shelf, as this one did. This was my first book by this author and I have since ordered her Highlander series. I am eagerly waiting for the sequal to this book to come out next year!!

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Summary: Great romance
Review: In Puffin Harbor, Maine, Rachel Foster is unhappy to learn that the owner of Sub Rosa, the seaside mansion she and her father designed, is coming to take up residence. Rachel knows that the mansion is the place where tragedy ended in the murders of her mother and their parents' best friend by their father who committed suicide right afterward. However, she learns that her father and his former pal had been art thieves stealing millions and her dad has left it up to her to rectify the situation anyway she wants.

The new owner Keenan Oakes and his five male disciples arrive as Rachel sneaks into the building. He catches her, but she temporarily escapes. Kee forces the issue of Rachel staying with him and his men allegedly to help them open up the state of the art technological house, but in reality he wants to keep an eye on her and not just because he does not trust her. As Rachel and Kee fall in love, he has kept secrets from her while she fears that once he learns her deepest concerns involving her father he will end their relationship.

This is an engaging romantic suspense that has several late surprising twists that will keep readers guessing on who did what to whom. The story line is at its best when Kee and Rachel battle even as they fall in love with one another. Hopefully, future tales starring the disciples and her sister will be coming soon as Janet Chapman seduces her audience with enjoyable tale.

Harriet Klausner

Rating:
Summary: Great romance
Review: In Puffin Harbor, Maine, Rachel Foster is unhappy to learn that the owner of Sub Rosa, the seaside mansion she and her father designed, is coming to take up residence. Rachel knows that the mansion is the place where tragedy ended in the murders of her mother and their parents' best friend by their father who committed suicide right afterward. However, she learns that her father and his former pal had been art thieves stealing millions and her dad has left it up to her to rectify the situation anyway she wants.

The new owner Keenan Oakes and his five male disciples arrive as Rachel sneaks into the building. He catches her, but she temporarily escapes. Kee forces the issue of Rachel staying with him and his men allegedly to help them open up the state of the art technological house, but in reality he wants to keep an eye on her and not just because he does not trust her. As Rachel and Kee fall in love, he has kept secrets from her while she fears that once he learns her deepest concerns involving her father he will end their relationship.

This is an engaging romantic suspense that has several late surprising twists that will keep readers guessing on who did what to whom. The story line is at its best when Kee and Rachel battle even as they fall in love with one another. Hopefully, future tales starring the disciples and her sister will be coming soon as Janet Chapman seduces her audience with enjoyable tale.

Harriet Klausner

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Summary: Katherine
Review: This was a great read, couldn't put it down. The Hero is described in the book as a 'demigod' and I'll go with that description! the heroine was also smart, sassy and sweet. This was the first of ms chapman's books I have read, but have since purchased all of her books!!! I fully anticipate some happy reading ahead! Don't miss out.

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Summary: Not a smart romance
Review: To be fair, I have not read the entire book. In fact, I only hit chapter six (I think) before becoming too annoyed to read further.

Too much hit me the wrong way--namely the heroine struck me as more stupid than admirable.

**No, I refuse to admit that you caught me breaking into your house even though you clearly saw my face and you have my unique--handcrafted--barret that I dropped on the way out. And thank you for merely thinking my refusal to be honest is fiesty rather than dumb.**

**I really do think my father killed my mother and his best friend after discovering them in bed together--even though I found the horrid tableau and the supposed lovers were both fully clothed in bed and though my father was still sentient enough to murmur a warning that so blatantly points to a framed murder only an extreme ditz such as myself would remain completely oblivious to the 'wrong' feel of the scene.**

To make things worse, from what I read of the hero (not much because I didn't get far), his possession of nominal logic and reason pose a stunning contrast with the silly herione. Thus it makes her stupidity all the more intolerable.

I mean--come on! Please! No more stupid heroines for the sake of poorly constructed plots. Please! At least make her suspicious--without finding any clues until she is given the lockbox.

The stunning contortions of logic and reason that the characters experience in order to stay true to some plot or purpose in the story is laughable and ultimately unbelievable. The writing itself is fine--I just take issue with stupid characters I am supposed to care about, believe in and want to truimph.

I only assume it gets worse as one delves more deeply into the text.

Sorry, but it is a 'no-can-do' for this book.