A Convenient Husband (Harlequin Presents, 2209)

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Summary: Marriage -- for love, sex or convenience?
Review: Tess is about to lose the custody of her precious nephew, Ben and believes that she can't do anything about it. When her best friend, Rafe Farrar drops by her house she cries all over his shoulder. After Tess' crying bout, Rafe puts her to sleep and the next morning Rafe decides to remain with Tess to help her deal with Chloe, her self-centered and conceited neice.

Chloe is the biological mother of Ben and has left Ben to Tess after Ben has been born. Except that Chloe now wants Ben back because she's about to be married to Ian, who is NOT the father of Ben.

Rafe stays with Tess after Ben has gone off with Ian and Chloe to the zoo because Tess doesn't want to be alone. But that may be a big mistake because she starts to notice how sexy Rafe is and Rafe starts to picture Tess naked.

Then disaster strikes and real danger is directed at the custody of Ben. Rafe comes up with the solution that if Tess and him got married then Tess would be able to keep Ben. But how would Tess and Rafe relate to each other? Their communication level is perfect inside the bedroom but what about their relationship outside of it? And who would end up with Ben?

A CONVENIENT HUSBAND was really interesting. I congratulate Kim Lawrence on her ability to come up with this plot but what I really hated was her writing style. The author didn't really explain everything clearly and most of the times I had to figure out what was really happening. Because when you think you're in the kitchen, you suddenly end up in some other place and when you think there's a room full of people, there was actually only one person. And that made it harder for me to follow the story because Kim Lawrenece kept out some of the parts. It was as if the story was playing out and Kim Lawrence only wrote down half of what was going on and the other half, you had to figure it out. Besides that, everything was really good and there were a lot of issues going on, so you wouldn't be bored.

^_^ ~ Izzy