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Tempting Fate
Devastated by the death of her husband, journalist Kelly Taylor is stunned to find out that he left behind a child in an Venezuelan orphanage and enlists the help of agent Logan McCord to help her find the child, but as their passion ignites, danger awaits them at every turn. Reprint.
432 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published May 1, 1998
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July 15, 2013
My book club hostess selected a romance novel. This genre is foreign to me. Actually, there is a lot about romance that's foreign to me, but that's for a different website. (he he!)
After a bit of sniffing around (I love reading other book reviews) I discovered that Tempting Fate by Meryl Sawyer falls deeply in the subgenre called Romantic Suspense which I think if am going to read formulaic, predictable fiction, Romantic Suspense is right up my alley.
I am glad I didn't read the back cover of this book because I would have been misled. Terribly. According to the back, this book is about a woman on mission to find her dead husband's bastard child and tricking a hot commando into helping her do it. That was the last 1/3 of the book. The novel I read was about Kelly Taylor, a disgraced journalist back home in Sedona, AZ, to care for her grandfather and to run his local newspaper. She was in a cold state of despair having lost her career in NY to a careless error and lost her husband in an airplane crash.
Settled into her grandfather's place in AZ, she got tipped off on a story that would resurrect her career (and a lot more.) The local Senator, Haywood Stanfield, lost (as in misplaced) his adopted child Logan 25 years ago in a hiking incident. Logan Stanfield was long thought dead. But new FBI technology located him and he ended up being a highly trained, vicious commando with a fierce loaner streak. His new name is Logan McCord. With his identity revealed, the lost lost Logan comes to town to meet his family and to try to shape the news story to enable him to continue his highly confidential work. Good luck.
Kelly goes after the story to help revive her career. Logan goes after Kelly because he thinks he can manipulate her into telling it his way. She's sexy and serious. He's hot like lava and a sly fox. He ends up staying at her family compound away from the media frenzy. She's in a crazy state trying to do her job and resist his natural charm. As predicted, he begins to loosen his loner ways in the loving, doting home she shares with her cool gramps called Pops.
There are lots of subplots like Logan's family realizing Logan wasn't just an adopted child way back when, he was the child of Haywood and a mistress who Haywood was bribed into adopting to maintain his reputation. And maybe Logan didn't just simply disappear on a hike with his 15 year old twin siblings when he was 5. Maybe it was deliberate, and covered up. Kelly also learns that her dead husband had a child with a mistress in Venezula. The mistress died beside him in the plane crash and the child was recently discovered in an orphanage.
Oh just read the book.
I liked the main characters and the back and forth tension of attraction and resistance. Their chemistry made my heart pump like a good hour of Jazzercise. I liked most of the subplots too, but the intense action of the adoption in South America was more than I was expecting (because I didn't read the book cover.)
The characters were compelling, the plots plausible enough, and the chemistry was smoking.
Maybe I will try another Romantic Suspense. This could be a new trend.
After a bit of sniffing around (I love reading other book reviews) I discovered that Tempting Fate by Meryl Sawyer falls deeply in the subgenre called Romantic Suspense which I think if am going to read formulaic, predictable fiction, Romantic Suspense is right up my alley.
I am glad I didn't read the back cover of this book because I would have been misled. Terribly. According to the back, this book is about a woman on mission to find her dead husband's bastard child and tricking a hot commando into helping her do it. That was the last 1/3 of the book. The novel I read was about Kelly Taylor, a disgraced journalist back home in Sedona, AZ, to care for her grandfather and to run his local newspaper. She was in a cold state of despair having lost her career in NY to a careless error and lost her husband in an airplane crash.
Settled into her grandfather's place in AZ, she got tipped off on a story that would resurrect her career (and a lot more.) The local Senator, Haywood Stanfield, lost (as in misplaced) his adopted child Logan 25 years ago in a hiking incident. Logan Stanfield was long thought dead. But new FBI technology located him and he ended up being a highly trained, vicious commando with a fierce loaner streak. His new name is Logan McCord. With his identity revealed, the lost lost Logan comes to town to meet his family and to try to shape the news story to enable him to continue his highly confidential work. Good luck.
Kelly goes after the story to help revive her career. Logan goes after Kelly because he thinks he can manipulate her into telling it his way. She's sexy and serious. He's hot like lava and a sly fox. He ends up staying at her family compound away from the media frenzy. She's in a crazy state trying to do her job and resist his natural charm. As predicted, he begins to loosen his loner ways in the loving, doting home she shares with her cool gramps called Pops.
There are lots of subplots like Logan's family realizing Logan wasn't just an adopted child way back when, he was the child of Haywood and a mistress who Haywood was bribed into adopting to maintain his reputation. And maybe Logan didn't just simply disappear on a hike with his 15 year old twin siblings when he was 5. Maybe it was deliberate, and covered up. Kelly also learns that her dead husband had a child with a mistress in Venezula. The mistress died beside him in the plane crash and the child was recently discovered in an orphanage.
Oh just read the book.
I liked the main characters and the back and forth tension of attraction and resistance. Their chemistry made my heart pump like a good hour of Jazzercise. I liked most of the subplots too, but the intense action of the adoption in South America was more than I was expecting (because I didn't read the book cover.)
The characters were compelling, the plots plausible enough, and the chemistry was smoking.
Maybe I will try another Romantic Suspense. This could be a new trend.
March 16, 2012
Fantastic novel! This book had it all -- romance, intrigue, adventure, suspense -- in spades. Didn't want to put it down...and was sad when I finished it -- not because it had a sad ending, but because I didn't want it to end (the hallmark of a really great read). One of Ms. Sawyer's best.
January 12, 2018
Ωραία πλοκή.Σε κρατά σε αγωνία για την εξέλιξη της υπόθεσης με τον τρόπο που διαδραματίζονται τα γεγονότα.Ο τρόπος που οι βασικοί ήρωες παρά το οτι είναι ακρως αντίθετοι χαρακτήρες βρίσκουν τόσο ευκολα κοινες λυσεις προσωπικα μου αρεσε πολυ διότι εδινε μια διαφορετικη "πνοή" στο βιβλιο.
Εξαιρετικά θετικό βρήκα τον τρόπο που περιγράφει τα τοπία της περιοχής,την ποικιλομορφία σε φυτά,το περιβάλλον κτλ. με τόσο ευανάγνωστο τρόπο όχι μόνο δεν κουράζει τον αναγνώστη αλλά τον κάνει να θέλει να τα επισκεφθεί.
Εξαιρετικά θετικό βρήκα τον τρόπο που περιγράφει τα τοπία της περιοχής,την ποικιλομορφία σε φυτά,το περιβάλλον κτλ. με τόσο ευανάγνωστο τρόπο όχι μόνο δεν κουράζει τον αναγνώστη αλλά τον κάνει να θέλει να τα επισκεφθεί.
January 25, 2021
Very good book, didn't see the ending coming !
April 5, 2025
This Author's book character sometimes links in her other books which is so interesting to relate to. All of her novels are standalone. Loved it
September 16, 2013
I've read this one before, and I'll probably read it again. It's one I keep coming back to.
Other reviewers have commented on the summary. Yes, the summary is pretty much the last third of the book. I probably never would have bought it back in 1998 if I had been going by that summary.
There are some problems with the book. There are a lot of places a good copy editor could have cleaned up so many mistakes. The end also feels rushed, like Ms Sawyer was told to have it finished before she had completed the story's natural progression.
All that said, though, it's a very good book, with intriguing, well rounded characters, and a multi-layered plot. I bought it in 1998, and I've read it at least 10 times. I will probably read it another 10 at least.
Other reviewers have commented on the summary. Yes, the summary is pretty much the last third of the book. I probably never would have bought it back in 1998 if I had been going by that summary.
There are some problems with the book. There are a lot of places a good copy editor could have cleaned up so many mistakes. The end also feels rushed, like Ms Sawyer was told to have it finished before she had completed the story's natural progression.
All that said, though, it's a very good book, with intriguing, well rounded characters, and a multi-layered plot. I bought it in 1998, and I've read it at least 10 times. I will probably read it another 10 at least.
September 25, 2009
Suspense
May 2, 2013
Really 3.5 stars. Started slow with LOTS of background. But then the story picked up and the characters developed. Really enjoyed it.
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February 4, 2016very good
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