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Homewrecker Incorporated

Homewrecker Incorporated, January 2016
by S. Simone Chavous

Author Self-Published
Featuring: Elsa Michaels; Gregory Michaels; Claudia
227 pages
ISBN: 0989570185
EAN: 9780989570183
Kindle: B019J3CXKS
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"Affairs can be more complicated than anyone believed"

Fresh Fiction Review

Homewrecker Incorporated
S. Simone Chavous

Reviewed by Clare O'Beara
Posted March 22, 2016

Romance Contemporary

We can safely call this an unusual PI story as we meet some ladies who specialise in getting the goods on straying husbands. Even if that means getting between the sheets with them in person on behalf of HOMEWRECKER INCORPORATED. Claudia is saving to settle down while others are providing for family members. It's just a job, right? They make themselves available to men who are in the habit of straying, in order to get the proof needed for the wives to divorce by the terms of pre-nup contracts.

Claudia is assigned a wealthy Chicago businessman for a fat bonus, which I would have to say she is earning, given the way football stars behave with her. Gregory Michaels is suspected by his wife Elsa of cheating, though on the surface they are a caring couple. By the terms of their pre- nup he would keep all his stocks in the family components firm, and she would lose half her own wealth if they split without concrete evidence of infidelity. A stranger, who might be paparazzi, has sent Mrs Michaels compromising photos of her husband, but they are not enough. She still loves the man and needs to know the truth.

Be prepared for adult activity and strong language from the start. You'll also find a richly cynical view of men which may feel overdone. But given that an adultery website hosted accounts from numerous men and comparatively few women, we have to feel there is some truth in the tale. Only for the entrapment aspect, this interesting adventure feels very much like the autobiography MAYFLOWER MADAM, in which a socialite in need of funds ran a call girl agency which protected the women workers.

Claudia lets us in on her family background; her father left early and remarried soon after her mother died. This naturally colours her view of men. She keeps in touch with her younger sister, who took her dad's part, but they agreed not to fight over their parents. This does make Claudia come across as a more human character and not completely the amoral homewrecker she claims to be. Still, with every new case, a psychoanalyst would probably say she is revenging herself on her father. In a wry twist however the tables are turned on HOMEWRECKER INCORPORATED. Author S. Simone Chavous suddenly sparks a romance in this unlikely setting, and even danger. Affairs are never uncomplicated.

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SUMMARY

*Don't let the title fool you, this is a story about true love.

Without love, marriage is just business. At least that’s what Claudia Mason tells the women who seek her firm’s unique services. With wealthy husbands who see their wedding rings as meaningless pieces of jewelry, they trust Claudia to do whatever is necessary to gather the hard evidence needed to shatter an ironclad prenup.

She is the best in the business and has yet to meet a mark she couldn’t get the goods on, solidifying her belief no man can be trusted. After landing a client who is her ticket to retirement, she is on top of the world. Until a chance encounter with Greyston Michaels turns her carefully controlled world upside down. Greyston shows Claudia a part of herself she thinks she’s lost, making her question everything she believes about men— and love. But in Claudia’s world, following her heart is bad for business. And business is everything.

*Homewrecker Incorporated is an 85,000 word standalone novel best suited for mature readers*


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1 comment posted.

Re: Affairs can be more complicated than anyone believed

Very curious now. Did you have to tease like that?
(Kathleen Bylsma 10:13pm March 25, 2016)

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