2008-09-02 Felt like the storyline was forced....

I'm not going to summarise the story, as the prev reviewer has already done this, but it really felt that the book was written for the sake of filling a gap, given that her last book was several months ago. The leads had seen each other a couple of times, and apparently Luc instantly fell for Lizzie, stopped having sex with his fiancee, Bianca, Lizzie's rich best friend - though neither had made a move towards each other, and he seemingly accepted that Bianca had started sleeping with other guys - yet he was still going to go ahead and marry her. Lizzie is impoverished, to a degree that Bianca has to pay for her flight and even supply clothes, shoes and make-up for Lizzie to be able to attend the wedding. Anyway, the bride elopes a few days before the wedding, her parents cannot face Luc and so send Lizzie to break the news. He holds her captive and insists that she must marry him, as, conveniently, her father's company is going under, and her brother has embezzled from the same. And of course, he's so rich and powerful that he manages to convince her father's bankers to give him the bank stmts!! Hmmm...too contrived, and this has made me decide that Michelle Reid will no longer be an auto-buy for me. Tried to sell it cheaply on ebay, but no takers!!