His Trophy Mistress

by Daphne Clair and Garry Hogg

Book Overview

Harlequin Presents #2249 This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373122497
• ISBN13: 9780373122493
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Harlequin Books
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.2" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

Real peoplee with real problems make for touching romance

This is a quiet romance that sneaks up and grabs your heart. The book was well written with fully drawn characters that touched me in a way most Harlequins do not. Paige and Jager met when she was a 16 year old private school girl and he was a young, rootless man not so long out of foster care trying to find his place in the world. They married against her parents' wishes sure that love would see them through but the marriage did not last for many realistic reasons that most Harlequin writers would not attempt to address. The book picks up 10 years later when they meet again at a wedding. I especially liked that the writer wrote the herione Paige as a real person who went on and lived a life-including a second marriage-while separated from the hero. Paige proudly said she had loved her second husband who was a good man. In giving the character an interim life, the writer gave the character depth and texture. She avoided the typical Harlequin trap of putting the heroine in cold storage when she and the hero broke up or belittling the second husband. And thank goodness she avoided the dredded secret baby. Jager was complicated but realistically and touchingly vulnerable. I enjoyed the book and the romance, but most of all, I really liked the characters and the emotion. Well done.