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JUST DESERTS - Brenda Jackson Harlequin Kimani/Romance June 2008 |
SYNOPSIS: The third and final title of the Three Mrs. Fosters series. The death of her husband shattered Danielle's dreams of motherhood. However, she now has a chance to salvage those dreams. But will a marriage of convenience to Tristan be a repeat of the mistake she'd made with her first hasty marriage?
SERIES ROMANCE |3| Marguerite Lemons
REVIEW: Danielle
Timmons-Foster just can’t seem to move on with her life until she has tracked
down the fourth woman that her deceased husband had also planned to marry.
Tristan Adams has been friends and business partners with Danielle and Paul, her
deceased brother, for years, but he has also been secretly in love with
Danielle.
Danielle left a successful modeling career and returned to her hometown after
her brother’s death in Iraq to take over his share of A & T Shipping that he and
Tristan owned. Tristan promised Paul that he would take care of Danielle in his
absence and feels as though he failed them both after Danielle eloped with Marc.
After Marc’s death, Danielle discovers that while she was the first Mrs. Foster,
she wasn’t the legal or the only one. Marc left behind two other widows for sure
and possibly a third. The other two women are able to put the incident behind
them, find love and move on. Meanwhile Danielle continues to obsess over the
fact that there is someone else out there that Marc has lied too. Everyone is
telling her to let go of the past and move on, but she just can’t let go.
Tristan agrees to help her locate this person, while hoping that if she finds
closure she will finally be able to love again. Will Danielle realize that her
chance at love is staring her in the face, or will she continue to dwell in the
past?
JUST DESSERTS is a moderately paced tale of three women, who have been
deceived in the worst way, but only one has trouble moving on, and this is the
crux of the problem. I found Danielle’s constant obsession over the other woman
a bit ridiculous and boring. The other two deceived women have moved on with
their lives, but Danielle finds it necessary to continue to burden them with
details of their deceased husbands exploits. She really needed to get a life and
see a psychiatrist. Tristan came off as weak to me, and weak men are not my cup
of tea.
JUST DESSERTS is the finale of The Three Mrs. Foster’s series, but I
found it a bit boring and repetitive.
reviewer@romanceincolor.com | 27th July 2008