Betting Hearts
Dee TenorioContemporary romance
Available from Samhain Publishing
ISBN: 1-59998-035-5
June 2006
| Cass is not the girliest girl around. She works in her father's landscape business, eats like a horse, has never worn a pair of high heels, and throws a mean right hook. That never mattered before, even when her ex-fiancé left her two days before the wedding with a note explaining that he was gay. Now Luke is back. He is engaged…to a woman! He says that he never was gay and that Cass just was never woman enough for him or any man. Cass is determined to prove him wrong. She asks her best friend, garage owner, Burke Halifax, to show her how to be a woman, after all he's had so many he should know what men want by now.
This story is sweet at times and hysterically funny at others. The idea of a womanizing mechanic teaching a tomboy how to be a girl is incredibly amusing, and the author makes the most of it. Burke and Cass are wonderful characters; they are best friends who never realized that they are in love with each other until someone else points it out to them. Luke is a spoiled pretty boy who thinks that the world exists for his benefit and the way he treats both Cass and his new fiancée Sally shows this. Burke's method of sending him away was pure genius. Luke simply can't come back to his hometown when his adoring public thinks that he is gay. But even he saw that Burke's feelings for Cass were more than just friendly affection. The subplots of her father and brother's romances gave a lot of depth to the story. Cass and Burke are characters that the reader will really root for, and Cass's determination and dedication to her task are awesome.
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Reviewer: Maura Frankman |
