The Trouble With Tomboys
Linda KageContemporary romance
Available from The Wild Rose Press
ISBN: 1-60154-790-0
August 2010
| B. J. Gilmore is a pilot for her family owned business in Texas. Aside from loving to fly, she's brash, likes to gamble, and doesn't care what anyone thinks of her. Everything changes when widower Grady Rawlings hires her to fly him to Houston for a business meeting. Grady, heir to an oil dynasty, lost his wife and baby two and a half years ago and hasn't gotten over it yet. He also hates sympathy and doesn't like people treating him like a pitiful widower. During the stay over in Houston that night, B.J. decides he needs to get over it and not only talks him into having dinner with her, but seduces him. Her resulting pregnancy sets off a chain of reactions from both her family and his, a situation they are at a loss to handle. Will their burgeoning love for one another grow, or die as they struggle to deal with the situation?
At first, B.J. Gilmore's rough talk put me off. However, I soon realized that, underneath the gruff exterior, was a kind, loving and very feminine woman. The author has done an excellent job in creating the backgrounds for the main characters. Baja's tomboy characteristics, which come from growing up with a father and brothers, but no mother, are well defined and natural to her character. The grieving widower's actions are also realistic and well drawn. The author has written two characters who balance each other beautifully. The settings are excellent, putting the reader right in the scenes, the emotions beautifully done. I loved the way the writer dealt with B.J.'s lack of knowledge of how a female should act. The main characters battle their way into loving one another, right up to a wonderful conclusion. I really loved this book, and definitely grew to care for the characters.
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Reviewer: Jaye Leyel |
