Monica Brandt is a New York princess; Harvard educated,
she works on Wall Street as an investment banker. She has
a perfect fiancé: Evan Horschfeld Davis III...or so he
seems, until Monica receives a phone call that her father
suffered a heart attack, and it is necessary she
flies to Las Vegas immediately. Tom Brandt had the nerve
to interrupt an important meeting, or it is the way Evan
deems it. The fact Monica's father might be dying is
of no importance to Evan. There is business to take care
of. He tells her if she goes, she can kiss her job
goodbye because he is also her boss. She leaves
with a heavy heart.
Ty Morgan, former bull rider and
proud cowboy, was with Tom Brandt, when he had his
coronary. Ty's father and Monica's father were partners,
and Ty succeeded his father as Tom's right hand man in
managing the mostly decrepit Hotel Rodeo. They want to
spruce it up, but when Monica hears about that, she is
livid. Because she is taking care of her father's business
until he gets better, which seems doubtful, she makes the
decisions. And a war just started!
HELL ON HEELS is Victoria Vane's first instalment in her
new Hotel Rodeo series. Ms. Vane writes cowboys
like no one else, and as expected the writing is
fabulous. I love how she gives her characters such solid
backgrounds; in the space of this short novel, we really
get to know Monica and Ty. At first, I thought Monica was
a seriously cold witch. She doesn't trust Ty because he
must be an ignoramus, being a country hick and all. Ty
doesn't want to work for her because she is spiteful and
demeaning. Then Monica makes Ty a proposal that sounds a
bit off to me, and as much as I love Victoria Vane, this
is where she lost me. Obviously, we expect Monica and Ty
to agree to disagree. Monica is sexually frustrated; her
perfect boyfriend is definitely not perfect in every way.
Ty, as much as he can't stand her snobbish ways, plays
the seduction card. And where I would have expected
literally a knee-jerk reaction from the banking
professional... Well, let's just say I thought the
sexy interlude appeared unrealistic to me. I felt Monica
behaved totally out of character, and it threw me off for
the remainder of the book. Otherwise I love the story,
especially Tom's. Everything else is fine, and the ending
left me gasping—in a good way. I hope I can get over
my
issue when the second book comes out, because Victoria is
one of my favourite authors, and the premise for the
Hotel
Rodeo
series is very interesting.
PLACE YOUR BET... The Hotel Rodeo in Las Vegas has
seen better days, but managing partner Ty Morgan has come up
with a way to return it to its former glory. His plan looks
promising until the unthinkable happens. Suddenly Ty is
working for the boss’s daughter. And Miss Monica Brandt, hot
as she may be, doesn’t share his vision…
ROLL THE DICE... She left a fabulous career and a
frustrated fiancé in New York to move to Vegas and save her
father’s investment. But now Monica is locking horns with a
sexy cowboy-turned-businessman. What does Ty think he can do
that she can’t? All Monica knows is that she doesn’t dare
trust him—or is it herself she doesn’t trust...
AND WIN... The battle lines are drawn. The stakes
are high. And the attraction can’t be denied—especially the
more closely Ty and Monica have to work together. Some odds
are just meant to be played, and with chemistry this
electric, it may be time to grab life by the horns…
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