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SECRET LOVE - Brenda Jackson Harlequin Kimani/Arabesque February 2009 |
SYNOPSIS: Actress Diamond Swain heads to Whispering Pines to hide out from news-hungry press. Yet from the moment she arrives at the remote Texas ranch, she finds herself at odds with its rugged owner, Jack Madaris. He challenges her to care about more than making it to the top.
CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE |5| Reviewed by Melanie Schuster in 2002
REVIEW: Déjà vu all over again, as Yogi Berra would say. I was just singing the praises of Brenda Jackson and now I get to do it again! Lucky me and lucky readers—we get SOMETHING TO CELEBRATE with her novella TRULY EVERLASTING in December, and in January, we get SECRET LOVE, the long-awaited story of Jake Madaris of the fabulous Madaris family, and Diamond Swain, the gorgeous actress to whom he has been secretly married. Was it worth the wait? Oh my yes…yes, a thousand times yes.
Ms Jackson knows what her fans like and she never disappoints us. We have been tantalized by appetizing bits of the story of Jake Madaris and his Diamond. Now we get to discover the whole story; how they met and fell in love, why they kept the marriage a secret for so long and why they decide to reveal it at last. And it is a story worth telling, believe me!
Diamond
Swain is one of the most likable heroines to come along in a while.
Sweet, smart, principled and gorgeous, I would love to hate her but
she’s too darned nice. And way
too much woman for Jacob Madaris to resist.
Speaking of Jacob, he is definitely my favorite of all those gorgeous
Madaris men—and that’s saying a lot when you think about that glorious
family. Ms Jackson’s descriptions
of Jake made me literally lose my breath at some points, and I am an experienced
reader of romance! The man is hot,
okay?
Together
they make a story that is downright combustible.
It has all the elements that we have come to look for in a Brenda Jackson
novel; good storytelling, a love of the family, an exquisite sense of place and
delightfully sensual romance. Let
me emphasize that last, since Jake and Diamond are a profoundly intimate couple
on all levels. This book is
fabulous, that’s all I can say. For all the readers who have patiently waited
to know the whole story of their SECRET LOVE, your reward is here. For
all the readers who have never read a Brenda Jackson—although I don’t think
there are any out there—this will be an introduction that you will never
forget.
What a way to ring out the old and ring in the new!
reviewer@romanceincolor.com | 2002