Product Description

Georganne Howard knows she's irresistible to anyone...and everyone. But when she runs away from her rich, elderly fiance, she chooses as her rescuer the one man who's impervious to her charms . John Kowalsky may find Georganne attractive, but a ditzy charm-school graduate isn't what he needs. After one night, John packs her off with a one-way ticket out of town, never expecting to see her again. Until, that is, she reappears ten years later. But this time Georganne seems to be playing hard to get. Maybe that's because of the secret she's trying to keep, one that stems straight from that fateful night...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #269232 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

From Amazon.com
In this saucy romance, charm-school graduate Georgeanne Howard has only two real talents: cooking and talking. Her Mae West-like body, though, is what attracts Virgil Duffy, a man old enough to be her grandfather but richer than Croesus. But when it comes time to actually marry Duffy, Georgeanne just can't go though with it. She makes her escape with bad boy John Kowalsky, the star hockey player for the team that Duffy owns. John has no idea that the gorgeous babe he is about to have a one-night stand with happens to be his boss's bride-to-be. It's not an auspicious start for a romance, but romance Georgeanne he does. Seven years later, Kowalsky discovers that their one night of unforgettable passion produced an incorrigible little girl who is even wilder than her parents--and Georgeanne is even more beautiful than he remembered.

Ingram
Georgeanne Howard can't marry the wealthy older man who's waiting for her at the altar. But her only route to freedom is with John Kawalsky, one of the bad-boy hockey players from the team her wealthy fiance owns. The two spend one night together, but John is at the height of his career and isn't looking to settle down. When their paths collide again years later, John discovers there is a reminder of the time they spent together: a daughter! Ads in "Romantic Times" .

About the Author
Rachel Gibson's first two romance novels -- Simply Irresistible and Truly Madly Yours -- were named among the Top Ten Favourite Books of the Year by the membership of the Romance writers of America. She is married and lives with her husband and children in Boise, Idaho.

Customer Reviews

2 stars for potential, but......
it never went anywhere. The whole synopsis of the book occurred in the first 50 pages and then there were 250 more to go and I could care less. There was no chemistry between the h/h the way there was in See Jane Score and True Confessions. And as for their daughter, she was the sterotypical annoying kid who talks baby talk even though she's seven years old. Gibson tried to show that the h/h had their vulnerabilities and were wounded souls, but she never brought that out onto the pages. I'd skip this one.

Hated the hero.
I haven't finished the book yet, but I just had to chime in and confirm that this book has the most unappealing, unsympathetic hero of any romance I've read in a long while. I mean, he had a one-night-stand with his first wife, and marries her when he gets her pregnant. After their son dies he proceeds to cheat on her numerous times, leading her to commit suicide. Then, while drunk, he marries a stripper whom he divorces a day later. Then he has a one-night-stand with the heroine, and dumps her at the airport the next day. This is all in the first 50 pages!! I thought we would actually see some introspection on his part, and perhaps understand why he was such a [jerk] in the past. But, that didn't happen. The heroine was little better. A very sad and confused woman with absolutely no self-esteem or self-respect. And, frighteningly, she's raising a 6-year-old who you suspect won't turn out much better. Also, I know I tend to be a stickler for grammar, but it drove me absolutely crazy that the 6-year-old repeatedly said "gots" instead of "has" or "have," yet none of the adults in her life ever corrected her. Apparently her first-grade teacher never corrected her either. Drove me crazy. Anyway, this is an okay book to read on the beach, but there are many better that would do much better. I certainly wouldn't spend any money on this one.

Not her best
It's probably not fair that this was the third hockey romance that I read in a short time period because while it's a very good book, it had trouble with the competition. Georgeanne and John were likable enough characters but the story just does not stand up to Body Check by Deirdre Martin (the best of the three) or Rachel Gibson's latest book, See Jane Score.