"An old family feud can't stand in the way of love."
Reviewed by Helen Williams
Posted July 22, 2015
Romance Contemporary
Miranda Liasson does a great job in showing how far two people
will go to save their family even if when an old family feud
is involved. Maddie Kingston wants to save her family
business and Nick Holter has every intention of avenging her
family for ruining his grandfather's career. Maddie Kingston quits her job and returns home to North
Carolina after her father has a stroke and attempts to save
the the family's shoe company. In order to do this she's
willing to spend every dime she possesses to buy self-made
billionaire Nick Holter in a charity auction where she will
use the weekend to take him back home to North Carolina and
convince him to help save her family's business and the jobs
of many. When Nick realizes it's his ex-girlfriend Maddie that has won
the weekend with him he is not happy about it. He has been
avoiding all of Maddie's phone call because he has no
intention of helping the family that destroyed his
grandfather's career. Nick feels he owes his grandfather after
everything his grandfather did for him. Now that he is able
to give his grandfather back what he lost he plans to take
away Maddie's family business. Even though Maddie still has
feelings for Nick, she will do whatever she has to in order to
help her family. Nick's plans of revenge change once he learns of Maddie's
father's illness. He also still has feelings for Maddie from
their time together years ago. But the old family feud stands
between them. Maddie, her family and Nick are shocked when his grandfather
reveals the reason behind they long time feud between their
families. Maddie has always felt like a failure and lacks confidence in
herself. So when Nick does not reveal one final secret he has
been withholding, that just reaffirms her lack of confidence
in herself and makes her feel that Nick does not trust her
decisions. So when she tells Nick to leave he does. Nick is miserable when he leaves and realizes he handled
things wrong with Maddie. He has every confidence that Maddie
is capable of and will save her family's shoe business. He
just needs to go back and convince Maddie that he believes in
her.
SUMMARY
This weekend, treat yourself to an all-new romance
from
Indulgence... Getting even.
One
step
at a time... Maddie Kingston just walked away
from
everything in order to take over her family's struggling
shoe business. And she's in some serious trouble. The
majority of the company's shares have been bought out by
none other than Maddie's ex-boyfriend, self-made
billionaire
Nick Holter. Now Maddie needs his help...even if it means
buying Nick from a charity bachelor auction. After
the
Kingstons destroyed his grandfather's career, Nick vowed
to
take over their company. He's inches from victory when he
finds himself bought and paid for...by his sexy
ex-girlfriend who's hell-bent on saving her family's
company. Between their families' feud and their own
unfinished business, tempers - and emotions - run hot.
Too hot. Because kissing with the enemy is a
guaranteed shoe-in for trouble...
ExcerptShe yanked the blanket off the bed. “You can take the
bed,”
she said, then threw it down on the hard, short
banquette.He should have let it go, let her go, but his heart
compelled him to act, and he flew after her in two
barefoot
strides. His arm caught her elbow and whirled her toward
him. Her eyes glinted with anger; he saw it even in the dim
light. It was hard, even now, not to gather her up and
kiss
her senseless, drag her down onto the bed and not come up
until he’d finished exploring every last curve and
valley. His muscles actually trembled. Why was he always a flash
of
a second away from losing control with her? Like that one
fine night when they couldn’t keep their hands off each
other. Years and years of bound up feelings finally let
loose. For that one and only time, he’d felt a glimmer of
hope that maybe the past didn’t predict the future, that
there really was forgiveness and mending and fresh
chances. But that had only lasted until the phone rang at dawn. Maddie stood there staring at him. His hand still clung
to
her arm as though he
feared she would bolt like a scared rabbit out of the
camper
and into the woods. She shrugged it briskly away.
“Business
is business, right, Nick? From now on, let’s just keep
everything else out of it.” She thought he was unfeeling, some kind of sociopath who
pulled family businesses out from under people for
pleasure.
She couldn’t have been more wrong. His gaze locked on hers. Raw emotion registered, lust and
sadness and torment, and for a raw, brutal instant, Nick
felt it all run through his heart like a blade. He did feel, and she had no idea how much. He tugged the blanket from her hands. “I’m taking the
seat.
Good night.” As soon as this god-awful weekend was done,
he’d force himself to forget her. It would be easy,
because
she’d hate him for real when all was said and done.
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