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She Left Me Breathless
Sydney Welsh is a self-made millionaire. She is successful, confident, and seems to have the world at her feet but something is missing. Her life is a catastrophic mess and the reality of her situation sets in when she arrives home from a business trip and finds her lover in bed with a female executive from her company. She realizes that the only woman she has ever loved was Rachel Ashburn and that ended thirteen years ago when Rachel made a choice, a life-changing choice that did not include Sydney. Sydney knew she could compete with another woman, or even a man for Rachel’s love, but how can anyone compete with God.
Now with more money than she knows what to do with, she puts an elaborate plan in motion to bring Rachel back into her life. She tells herself that she is doing it for revenge, and hiring business wiz-kid Caitlyn—Rachel’s nineteen-year-old daughter for an internship with her company is a key part of that plan.
She learns that it’s okay to make plans as long as you don’t plan the outcome and when an embezzler is suspected inside her company, she makes several miscalculations and unknowingly puts Rachel and Caitlyn’s lives in danger.
As with all best laid plans, things can go wrong and once again, Sydney finds herself falling head over heels in love with Rachel, the only woman who had the power to leave her breathless.
Now with more money than she knows what to do with, she puts an elaborate plan in motion to bring Rachel back into her life. She tells herself that she is doing it for revenge, and hiring business wiz-kid Caitlyn—Rachel’s nineteen-year-old daughter for an internship with her company is a key part of that plan.
She learns that it’s okay to make plans as long as you don’t plan the outcome and when an embezzler is suspected inside her company, she makes several miscalculations and unknowingly puts Rachel and Caitlyn’s lives in danger.
As with all best laid plans, things can go wrong and once again, Sydney finds herself falling head over heels in love with Rachel, the only woman who had the power to leave her breathless.
318 pages, Paperback
First published April 12, 2012
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November 7, 2013
"Abuse of power comes as no surprise." - Jenny Holzer
She Left Me Breathless by Trin Denise, is billed as a love story, but the overarching theme of this book is much more about getting away with the abuse of power.
Sydney is a high-powered CEO and owner of a company that produces specialty office hardware and software products. Rachel is the woman she loved in college 13 years ago; at the time, Rachel had a daughter, Caitlyn, aged 6; as the book opens Rachel is married, living a heterosexual life, and has a second daughter.
Sydney has never forgotten Rachel. She hires a private detective to investigate Rachel and collect as many manipulative levers as she can to crowbar Rachel back into her life. She hires Caitlyn, now 19, straight out of high school. Caitlyn is supercompetent in that way only people in novels can be. (In fact, Sydney is surrounded by so many hypercompetent women she either nicked them from a Heinlein universe or Vorkosigan House.) Sydney buys the company Rachel works at just to get closer to her. Ultimately, she blackmails Rachel into a close professional relationship with her by threatening Caitlyn's job.
If a man did that-- no scratch that-- if anyone does this in the real world, it's sexual harassment. It's stalking. It's bullying. And it's blackmail. At one point, after Rachel has made it clear she's faithful to her husband and her church, Syndney briefly contemplates taking Rachel into her arms and forcefully kissing her. The term for that is "corrective" sexual assault, and it's no different from when a man or woman forces him- or herself on a homosexual of the opposite sex in the belief that exposure to a "real man" or "real woman" would "cure" them of a false consciousness. (To be fair, Sydney doesn't do it, but not because she has any moral qualms about it; she just doesn't think it would work.) Everything the gay and lesbian community has built around the ideas of the culture of consent and the equality of all persons is cheerfully ignored in this book. Everything my time at Queer Nation taught me is sacrificed to get these two women into bed with each other.
The villains are all mustache-twirling idiots, even the female ones. With rare exceptions, the men are all incompetent, foul-mouthed, drunk, or generally bad dudes.
And when it comes to character growth, well, there is none. Sydney gets what she wants and isn't chastened for or by her bad behavior. Rachel is a dishrag to her upbringing at the beginning of the book, and a dishrag to her infatuation with Sydney at the end. In the middle there is a lot of painful exposition about an embezzlement scheme that drives one external conflict (you know the type, "I suffered to do this research, and dammit, you're gonna read it, because I need word count!"), a lot of as-you-knows about how rich and powerful and wise and wonderful Sydney is. Ms. Denise could write crackling good dialogue if she knew when to turn it off, because when she starts she goes on and on in a "see how clever I am" bantering way that may work for sitcoms but not for literature. And I don't think she's spoken to an eight-year-old, not even an excessively brilliant one, since she was eight years old herself, because that scene was painful to read.
But all is forgiven for love, and the love scene is actually very good. Too bad it's really the only thing the book has going for it. It can't save the mundane plot, the characters I couldn't root for, the themes I could not in good conscience support, and the anvilicious writing style.
She Left Me Breathless by Trin Denise, is billed as a love story, but the overarching theme of this book is much more about getting away with the abuse of power.
Sydney is a high-powered CEO and owner of a company that produces specialty office hardware and software products. Rachel is the woman she loved in college 13 years ago; at the time, Rachel had a daughter, Caitlyn, aged 6; as the book opens Rachel is married, living a heterosexual life, and has a second daughter.
Sydney has never forgotten Rachel. She hires a private detective to investigate Rachel and collect as many manipulative levers as she can to crowbar Rachel back into her life. She hires Caitlyn, now 19, straight out of high school. Caitlyn is supercompetent in that way only people in novels can be. (In fact, Sydney is surrounded by so many hypercompetent women she either nicked them from a Heinlein universe or Vorkosigan House.) Sydney buys the company Rachel works at just to get closer to her. Ultimately, she blackmails Rachel into a close professional relationship with her by threatening Caitlyn's job.
If a man did that-- no scratch that-- if anyone does this in the real world, it's sexual harassment. It's stalking. It's bullying. And it's blackmail. At one point, after Rachel has made it clear she's faithful to her husband and her church, Syndney briefly contemplates taking Rachel into her arms and forcefully kissing her. The term for that is "corrective" sexual assault, and it's no different from when a man or woman forces him- or herself on a homosexual of the opposite sex in the belief that exposure to a "real man" or "real woman" would "cure" them of a false consciousness. (To be fair, Sydney doesn't do it, but not because she has any moral qualms about it; she just doesn't think it would work.) Everything the gay and lesbian community has built around the ideas of the culture of consent and the equality of all persons is cheerfully ignored in this book. Everything my time at Queer Nation taught me is sacrificed to get these two women into bed with each other.
The villains are all mustache-twirling idiots, even the female ones. With rare exceptions, the men are all incompetent, foul-mouthed, drunk, or generally bad dudes.
And when it comes to character growth, well, there is none. Sydney gets what she wants and isn't chastened for or by her bad behavior. Rachel is a dishrag to her upbringing at the beginning of the book, and a dishrag to her infatuation with Sydney at the end. In the middle there is a lot of painful exposition about an embezzlement scheme that drives one external conflict (you know the type, "I suffered to do this research, and dammit, you're gonna read it, because I need word count!"), a lot of as-you-knows about how rich and powerful and wise and wonderful Sydney is. Ms. Denise could write crackling good dialogue if she knew when to turn it off, because when she starts she goes on and on in a "see how clever I am" bantering way that may work for sitcoms but not for literature. And I don't think she's spoken to an eight-year-old, not even an excessively brilliant one, since she was eight years old herself, because that scene was painful to read.
But all is forgiven for love, and the love scene is actually very good. Too bad it's really the only thing the book has going for it. It can't save the mundane plot, the characters I couldn't root for, the themes I could not in good conscience support, and the anvilicious writing style.
April 18, 2012
Millionaire, Sydney Welsh, has a life most of us can only dream about. She has everything money can buy. Her businesses make money faster than she can spend it. But.................she doesn’t have the one thing she truly desires. The woman she loves and lost. In fact, Sydney’s personal life is a shambles.
When Sydney returns home early from a business trip and finds her lover of ten years in bed with a woman from her company, Sydney decides it’s time to make some changes in her life.
Sydney knows she’s only ever loved one woman, Rachel. Unfortunately Sydney was dumped by Rachel thirteen years earlier. Not for another woman or even a man, but for God and the catholic church. Sydney just couldn’t compete.
Sydney sets out with an elaborate plan in mind to entice Rachel back in to her life. Part of Sydney’s plan is hiring Caitlyn, Rachel’s computer whizz kid daughter.
But plans are apt to go awry and Sydney has no way of knowing that she is putting both Rachel and Caitlyn’s lives in danger. When Caitlyn discovers an embezzler within the company, Sydney’s plans begin to fall apart. Will Rachel and Caitlyn escape with their lives?
It’s not long before Sydney realizes she’s never stopped loving Rachel. How will this fit in with her plans?
I loved Trin’s first book, Worth Dying For, I didn’t think her writing could possibly get any better. How wrong I was. I simply couldn’t put this book down from the start to the finish. What a page turner. I admit I was a little bit apprehensive when I read the synopsis. Not being religious, I wondered how much of the book would be devoted to religion. The answer is very little, although religion was the reason for Rachel and Sydney’s break up.
The story covers so much, a love lost and found, kidnapping, abuse, embezzlement, murder and at the very heart of the book is romance, a smoking hot romance.
The story is told with a terrific sense of ‘laugh out loud’ humor throughout. I was kept constantly guessing as to the identity of the embezzler. I did have my own ideas, I was wrong though and very surprised when the embezzler’s identity was revealed. I love books that keep me guessing.
This book is simply amazing.
I love the characters and the way they seamlessly interact together with each other. The story is fast paced and kept me on the edge of my seat.
Trin Denise has the ability to allow the reader to view the scenes as they unfold. It’s like being a part of the story while watching from the side lines. Very cleverly written.
I see that Trin is working on another book due out later on this year, it can’t be published soon enough for me. This is another definite re-read.
Trin is, in my opinion, going to become a big name in lesbian fiction. Her writing and story telling are superb. Each year I seem to discover a new jewel in the crown of lesbian fiction, this year it’s Trin.
When Sydney returns home early from a business trip and finds her lover of ten years in bed with a woman from her company, Sydney decides it’s time to make some changes in her life.
Sydney knows she’s only ever loved one woman, Rachel. Unfortunately Sydney was dumped by Rachel thirteen years earlier. Not for another woman or even a man, but for God and the catholic church. Sydney just couldn’t compete.
Sydney sets out with an elaborate plan in mind to entice Rachel back in to her life. Part of Sydney’s plan is hiring Caitlyn, Rachel’s computer whizz kid daughter.
But plans are apt to go awry and Sydney has no way of knowing that she is putting both Rachel and Caitlyn’s lives in danger. When Caitlyn discovers an embezzler within the company, Sydney’s plans begin to fall apart. Will Rachel and Caitlyn escape with their lives?
It’s not long before Sydney realizes she’s never stopped loving Rachel. How will this fit in with her plans?
I loved Trin’s first book, Worth Dying For, I didn’t think her writing could possibly get any better. How wrong I was. I simply couldn’t put this book down from the start to the finish. What a page turner. I admit I was a little bit apprehensive when I read the synopsis. Not being religious, I wondered how much of the book would be devoted to religion. The answer is very little, although religion was the reason for Rachel and Sydney’s break up.
The story covers so much, a love lost and found, kidnapping, abuse, embezzlement, murder and at the very heart of the book is romance, a smoking hot romance.
The story is told with a terrific sense of ‘laugh out loud’ humor throughout. I was kept constantly guessing as to the identity of the embezzler. I did have my own ideas, I was wrong though and very surprised when the embezzler’s identity was revealed. I love books that keep me guessing.
This book is simply amazing.
I love the characters and the way they seamlessly interact together with each other. The story is fast paced and kept me on the edge of my seat.
Trin Denise has the ability to allow the reader to view the scenes as they unfold. It’s like being a part of the story while watching from the side lines. Very cleverly written.
I see that Trin is working on another book due out later on this year, it can’t be published soon enough for me. This is another definite re-read.
Trin is, in my opinion, going to become a big name in lesbian fiction. Her writing and story telling are superb. Each year I seem to discover a new jewel in the crown of lesbian fiction, this year it’s Trin.
April 19, 2012
Trin Denise did it again!! She Left Me Breathless is Trin's second novel and is just as good as her first (Worth Dying For)! Again, she really develops her characters and researches her subject matter. She touches on some heavy subjects - domestic violence, religion, embezzlement, and more! Another great story line with lots of twists. I didn't see the end coming. Brilliant! I loved her character development and her "supporting" charcters were a perfect fit! Again, I don't think you will be disapointed.
December 13, 2014
Action, romance, suspense, angst, all in one. Really nice book. The story captures you from beginning to end. And although there are unnerving/frustrating moments or some situations are simply hard to understand, there are also very nice and interesting moments that create a good balance in the story. Recommend it.
April 18, 2012
this book was well written. Read it in one day. I was totally surpried at who the embezzlers ended up being. Would highly recommend this book.
October 26, 2012
Trin,
I have enjoyed your writing on the 2 books I have read so far... I will read more!!!
Beth
January 9, 2025
Interesting plot blending romance with intrigue involving computers and fraud which were above my pay grade. The whodunit wasn’t easy to spot and it had a HEA.
September 19, 2015
This is the second book I've read by this author, and again...this just falls so short of what I thought it was going to be about. The writing is fine in this story, but it spends more time being about revenge than it does about the love and healing part. And where was the "breathless" part? Unless it was me, the dear reader, that was left breathless by being so not in awe of this story. A disappointment. Still, I will try another story by this author. I've heard many good things abut her, and I keep wondering what is wrong with me that I so dislike her stories. Maybe the style of writing? I just can't get into any of her characters. They seem so one-sided and mean at times. That's not enjoyable for me.
Two stars.
Two stars.
December 24, 2012
I don't have to write much to tell you what I thought of this book. I started reading this sometime yesterday afternoon and I am finished already, need I say more. And I actually got some sleep in there somewhere.
September 2, 2013
I finished this book in less than 8 hours and it is now on my top 10 list. Not only did I get and enjoy the characters, but it had an intriguing plot twist... A definite read - reminded me of love I lost that I would do anything, even come up with a crazy scheme, to get it back.
March 9, 2013
I liked this book. About lost love, intrigue, embezzling, and how strong women can be.
May 14, 2013
Great plot. Unpredictable story.
November 2, 2020
A story of unrequited love & unfinished business
An entertaining & enjoyable story with some intriguing & interesting likeable characters, several hot scenes & an easily read book.
An entertaining & enjoyable story with some intriguing & interesting likeable characters, several hot scenes & an easily read book.
February 26, 2019
Excellent book looking forward to reading other books by this author.
April 16, 2019
I loved it. In spite of all the trouble, both in their personal and their professional lives, their love succeeded. Money doesn’t make you happy, but it sure helps making problems go away!
March 7, 2022
Awesome
Trin has another fan. This was my first time reading her work and I'm hooked. I would gladly recommend this book to my peers.
Trin has another fan. This was my first time reading her work and I'm hooked. I would gladly recommend this book to my peers.
January 9, 2025
Intrigue and romance
Interesting plot blending romance with intrigue involving computers and fraud which were above my pay grade. The whodunit wasn’t easy to spot and it had a HEA.
Interesting plot blending romance with intrigue involving computers and fraud which were above my pay grade. The whodunit wasn’t easy to spot and it had a HEA.
January 23, 2016
The book is my first from this particular author. The title caught my attention, and it was a quick read. I found the two leads interesting, and some of the secondary characters. I don't want to give any spoilers away, but I wish there had been a bit more about their past interactions to clue the reader into what made Sydney (the main character) cling to her love all those years. So, I guess there were parts I thought could have been "fleshed out" better. While, I can't say it left me breathless, it did leave me curious to try another of Denise's books, as I think she's a decent writer, and the story was a nice escape from reality.
September 7, 2013
i got the two book combo love this book got it last night im half way through only because i had to go to work.
January 31, 2017
It's been a while since i've read it, so i can't remember much.
I really like this concept, so had high expectations. It could've been better and has much more potential.
I really like this concept, so had high expectations. It could've been better and has much more potential.
July 7, 2017
I wanted to read a story like this for a long time as it involves a love that lasts over the years and perhaps it will last forever and which entangles so many social and moral themes.
https://inkmarksonemptydreams.com/201...
Sydney and Rachel were in love 13 years ago as they were teenagers, yet Rachel left Sydney for her parents’ prejudices in the name of the Lord and the Catholic Church, as such a love was abominable.
In this lesbian novel, Trin Denise surfaces very deep moral, social and religious issues that still linger in our society, perhaps not in the US, but surely in Europe, especially in the South Eastern countries. Those issues are : lesbian love is denied by God and the Church, marital sexual abuse in a heterosexual marriage, embezzlement , employees are collateral victims of harsh business takeovers, employees treated as resources not humans, revenge and greed, perhaps misunderstood ideas of being wealthy (Maureen’s parents were fired by Sydney when she took over their company)
Sydney Welsh is the main character and she surely breathes power and self contempt through all of her pores as she is a self made millionaire as CEO and owner of a company that produces specialty office hardware and software products and all this confidence attracts Caytlin, Rachel Ashburn’s biggest daughter to her. Yet, Sydney is miserable inside as she still suffers Rachel’s abandon and wants revenge, that’s why she hires Jackie to elaborate a plan to get to Rachel, mainly to hire Caytlin as a software programmer and then promote her as VP of the IT Soft Programming department at Welsh, take over the design company Rachel works for and face her.
Rachel had a unhappy life after leaving Sydney and her second husband Edward was a drunk and an abuser, she suffered and her daughters knew, yet she’s got no way out. She know she took the wrong choice 13 years ago and now she had to face abuse for the sake of her daughters, which of course was in her head, as Caytlin was almost 18 and Alyssa 8 years old and were of a high intelligence and they just wanted their mother to be happy.
The story starts when Sydney gets home from a business trip and finds her lover, Meredith, in bed with one of her executives, she throws her out after ten years of relationship, yet gives her a paycheck and wants her to leave the company as soon as possible and Meredith leaves but doesn’t forget to threaten Sydney. In the meantime, Sydney and Caitlyn get along very well and the young woman discovers something wrong in the company’s accounts, mainly a steal technique known to programmers and code writers as the salami technique, as small amounts of money, barely reaching 90 cents, is taken constantly from each of the company’s customers’ accounts and put into a certain bank account through a software program that will also cover the tracks and show the bills payed with the whole amount in the Welsh bookeeping reports.
It was a good idea that they met at Sydney’s Christmas Party and Rachel was amazed and puzzled to see Sydney again, while old feelings had awoken in Rachel, the ones that never left Sydney’s heart and soul became stronger.
Sydney buys the company Rachel works for and she smoothly attracts Rachel to do the design of her home pretexting that she was her employee now, yet she only wanted the love of her life closer and to somehow cut her off her abusive husband.
Sydney seems to have an amazing life, she is confident and more beautiful than ever in Rachel’s thoughts and she is also surrounded by beautiful women like Meredith. Rachel somehow feels she has wasted her life and the life she could of have with Sydney.
Rachel’s character is somehow build in between religious beliefs inoculated by her parents, especially by her mother Roberta, and an abusive marriage in which she was captive and unhappy. She loved her daughters and her job, yet she was as miserable as Sydney, she still lacked self confidence, strength , freedom and the power to take the right decision once and for all. I think the author wanted to build her that way, to point out the imbalanced decision she took 13 years ago, when she left Sydney and remarried Edward while Caitlyn was already born.
The biggest surprise in the novel was the fact that Caitlyn remembers Sydney since she was a child, because she knew the moment when her mother’s light in her eyes had faded.
And another surprise is the fact that Caitlyn is a lesbian and she tells Sydney first and somehow she figures out that Sydney is in love with her mother, Rachel and she’s happy about it. And how Caitlyn’s coming out to her mother makes Rachel understand and realize her daughter is all grown up and has the courage to take her own decisions and she is smart and tough to prove her intelligence and live her life as she wants to. All the facts that Rachel has denied herself and Sydney years ago.
I enjoyed the other characters, like Karen, Sydney’s assistant, she is the salt and the pepper of fun at the office and an amazing piece of a woman, she was enchanting. Also, Sydney’s executives like Allen Carmichael and their wives form another social issue debated in the novel, hypocrisy and ignorance, as they would be nothing without their husbands, they don’t see beyond heterosexuality, while their husbands steal and hunt everything and anyone to keep their high standard lifestyle.
I liked the suspense in the plot, because the reader suspects more than one character as the embezzler : Allen Carmichael, other executives, even Edward, yet not Maureen or even more the unexpected killer which I am going to keep secret for the sake of the read.
The lead to the kidnapping that started from Sydney’s revenge plan, the pursue, Sydney’s courage and intelligence to understand the facts before they happened and Caytlin’s smartness to say exactly the right few words for Sydney to understand, have created the perfect climax for the novel and the most expected outcome of it.
The smoking hot romance part left me breathless, as Sydney’s self confidence and love for Rachel lead to beautiful seductive moments between them as Rachel wants her, needs her so much, realizes she has wanted Sydney this way all along, shyness and embarressment are dismantled by softness, beauty, care, love, tenderness, lust and so much passion between the adults they have become after all those years.
https://inkmarksonemptydreams.com/201...
Sydney and Rachel were in love 13 years ago as they were teenagers, yet Rachel left Sydney for her parents’ prejudices in the name of the Lord and the Catholic Church, as such a love was abominable.
In this lesbian novel, Trin Denise surfaces very deep moral, social and religious issues that still linger in our society, perhaps not in the US, but surely in Europe, especially in the South Eastern countries. Those issues are : lesbian love is denied by God and the Church, marital sexual abuse in a heterosexual marriage, embezzlement , employees are collateral victims of harsh business takeovers, employees treated as resources not humans, revenge and greed, perhaps misunderstood ideas of being wealthy (Maureen’s parents were fired by Sydney when she took over their company)
Sydney Welsh is the main character and she surely breathes power and self contempt through all of her pores as she is a self made millionaire as CEO and owner of a company that produces specialty office hardware and software products and all this confidence attracts Caytlin, Rachel Ashburn’s biggest daughter to her. Yet, Sydney is miserable inside as she still suffers Rachel’s abandon and wants revenge, that’s why she hires Jackie to elaborate a plan to get to Rachel, mainly to hire Caytlin as a software programmer and then promote her as VP of the IT Soft Programming department at Welsh, take over the design company Rachel works for and face her.
Rachel had a unhappy life after leaving Sydney and her second husband Edward was a drunk and an abuser, she suffered and her daughters knew, yet she’s got no way out. She know she took the wrong choice 13 years ago and now she had to face abuse for the sake of her daughters, which of course was in her head, as Caytlin was almost 18 and Alyssa 8 years old and were of a high intelligence and they just wanted their mother to be happy.
The story starts when Sydney gets home from a business trip and finds her lover, Meredith, in bed with one of her executives, she throws her out after ten years of relationship, yet gives her a paycheck and wants her to leave the company as soon as possible and Meredith leaves but doesn’t forget to threaten Sydney. In the meantime, Sydney and Caitlyn get along very well and the young woman discovers something wrong in the company’s accounts, mainly a steal technique known to programmers and code writers as the salami technique, as small amounts of money, barely reaching 90 cents, is taken constantly from each of the company’s customers’ accounts and put into a certain bank account through a software program that will also cover the tracks and show the bills payed with the whole amount in the Welsh bookeeping reports.
It was a good idea that they met at Sydney’s Christmas Party and Rachel was amazed and puzzled to see Sydney again, while old feelings had awoken in Rachel, the ones that never left Sydney’s heart and soul became stronger.
Sydney buys the company Rachel works for and she smoothly attracts Rachel to do the design of her home pretexting that she was her employee now, yet she only wanted the love of her life closer and to somehow cut her off her abusive husband.
Sydney seems to have an amazing life, she is confident and more beautiful than ever in Rachel’s thoughts and she is also surrounded by beautiful women like Meredith. Rachel somehow feels she has wasted her life and the life she could of have with Sydney.
Rachel’s character is somehow build in between religious beliefs inoculated by her parents, especially by her mother Roberta, and an abusive marriage in which she was captive and unhappy. She loved her daughters and her job, yet she was as miserable as Sydney, she still lacked self confidence, strength , freedom and the power to take the right decision once and for all. I think the author wanted to build her that way, to point out the imbalanced decision she took 13 years ago, when she left Sydney and remarried Edward while Caitlyn was already born.
The biggest surprise in the novel was the fact that Caitlyn remembers Sydney since she was a child, because she knew the moment when her mother’s light in her eyes had faded.
And another surprise is the fact that Caitlyn is a lesbian and she tells Sydney first and somehow she figures out that Sydney is in love with her mother, Rachel and she’s happy about it. And how Caitlyn’s coming out to her mother makes Rachel understand and realize her daughter is all grown up and has the courage to take her own decisions and she is smart and tough to prove her intelligence and live her life as she wants to. All the facts that Rachel has denied herself and Sydney years ago.
I enjoyed the other characters, like Karen, Sydney’s assistant, she is the salt and the pepper of fun at the office and an amazing piece of a woman, she was enchanting. Also, Sydney’s executives like Allen Carmichael and their wives form another social issue debated in the novel, hypocrisy and ignorance, as they would be nothing without their husbands, they don’t see beyond heterosexuality, while their husbands steal and hunt everything and anyone to keep their high standard lifestyle.
I liked the suspense in the plot, because the reader suspects more than one character as the embezzler : Allen Carmichael, other executives, even Edward, yet not Maureen or even more the unexpected killer which I am going to keep secret for the sake of the read.
The lead to the kidnapping that started from Sydney’s revenge plan, the pursue, Sydney’s courage and intelligence to understand the facts before they happened and Caytlin’s smartness to say exactly the right few words for Sydney to understand, have created the perfect climax for the novel and the most expected outcome of it.
The smoking hot romance part left me breathless, as Sydney’s self confidence and love for Rachel lead to beautiful seductive moments between them as Rachel wants her, needs her so much, realizes she has wanted Sydney this way all along, shyness and embarressment are dismantled by softness, beauty, care, love, tenderness, lust and so much passion between the adults they have become after all those years.
September 27, 2017
This was an enjoyable read. A bit unrealistic on the macho front and in a way I felt the perpetrators at the end was so out of place and assumed the writer just needed the story to be unpredictable. Overall, nice companionable read
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