Mobility Mom Book Shelf: Temptation by Jude Deveraux

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Book Description

It is l909 and Temperance O’Neil is a woman ahead of her time. She’s happy and devoted to her career helping single mothers on the streets of New York. But her new stepfather, Angus McCairn, does not approve. He makes her an unlikely offer: to go to Scotland, pose as housekeeper to his nephew James, and find him a wife, secretly. If she succeeds, he’ll allow her back to New York.

Temperance -- smart, passionate, as stubborn as her stepfather -- is determined at any cost to win her return passage. But she has taken on far more than she expected. James McCairn, Laird of Clan McCairn, is no cultured gentleman but a strapping, rough-mannered farmer, rude and brusque. There are pigeons roosting in the kitchen and chickens in the bedroom. Marriage is the last thing on his mind

About Jude Deveraux

Jude Deveraux is the author of historical and contemporary women's fiction featuring women of strong character and gorgeous, exciting men. Jude has had more than thirty books on the New York Times bestsellers list, 60 million copies in print, and has been translated into 18 languages. When she's not writing, she enjoys reading murder mysteries, working in her garden, and in boxing class, she likes to show much younger males that she can throw a mean right cross.

My Thoughts

Jude does it again with strong women with strong views of life.

In this book, we meet Temperance a woman set in her ways. She is determined to rescue women who have fallen on hard times because of men. In her battle to save women she has made men her enemy but when her new step father sends her to an island in Scotland to find a wife for his nephew Jamie. She realizes that maybe her life's work isn't what she thought and that all men aren't all bad.

Jaimie doesn't want to marry. He has turned down every woman his uncle has sent. He is happy just spending time with his sheep and just being left alone. However, when Temperance arrives his whole world is turned inside out. He begins to think that marriage isn't such a bad idea if he can overcome his pride and marry the woman he loves.

This book was so much fun to read. Between Temperance and her ideas of men and Jaimie's unwillingness to marry the two of them really are a sight. My favorite part was when Jaimie tossed a bride-to-be out a window.

Between a strong woman and a sexy Scotsman Jude blended comedy, mystery, and love brilliantly to weave a wonderful story that swept me away.