Release date: December
17th 2013
Publisher: Harlequin
Purchase: Amazon | Barnes & Noble
BOOK
DESCRIPTION:
Thirty days and thirty
nights!
Ashley Jones has been
sitting in Sebastian Cruz's office. For hours. Behind the imposing wooden doors
sits the man who stole her family's island home. And she wants it back.
But the fight is knocked
from her when Ashley recognizes him as the man she knows intimately; the man
who betrayed her after their blissful night together.
Sebastian has no intention
of giving the island back, but he does want Ashley. He agrees to her deal, but
has a few sub-clauses of his own. Specifically, a month at his beck and call;
and in his bed!
My Review!
A Deal with Benefits was not what I expected. I thought it
was going to be a sappy romance but it wasn’t. It was a very emotional and
heartbreaking read. I felt connected to both characters and felt their pain. In
one moment I liked Sebastian and in the next I despised him for what he was
doing. I wish he went about it another way without putting Ashley in the middle
of it, but if he did that then they wouldn’t have met. Everything that happened
was believable and you could see it happening in real life. Heck it does happen
in real life, I assume some people have mistresses. It was devastating when we
learn of Ashley’s parents. It was hard to read about them and what Ashley had
to witness. So when she agrees to Sebastian’s terms to become what she always
said she wouldn’t become and what she despises, a mistress. Ashley’s and Sebastian’s
relationship wasn’t an easy one. Ashley desires Sebastian but knows not to fall
in love with him because men like him don’t commit. And yet she can’t say no to
even when he wont let her visit Inez Key. I cried many times in this book and I
think that other people will like this book as much as me.
They both hold
secrets and when one of them finds out the truth, it is a breaking point and it
could change everything.
Ashley is a strong willed woman of 23 and is desperate to
keep her island. So she agrees too his terms and that no way in my mind makes
her a whore. She is far from that. Some might think she is weak for giving into
Sebastian but I don’t see it that way. Like Sebastian said he gave her a way to
get what she wants, the island and….him. *wink*
Sebastian has worked his way from the bottom to the top with
no help and after one night with Ashley he can’t forget her. But when she
rejects him he wants revenge, so he takes the island from her. Do I think he is
a horrible person for doing this? Yes and no because he has his reason but he didn’t
have to be so cruel to her and kick her off the island. It took me awhile to
like him but his charm won me over. It wasn’t until the end though that I fell
in love. LOL :D
Overall: A sensual
read that is both spicy yet sweet.
4.5 Stars
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Susanna Carr has been an
avid romance reader since she read her first Harlequin at the age of 10. She
has written sexy contemporary romances for several publishers and her work has
been honored with awards for contemporary and sensual romance.
Susanna Carr lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family. When she isn’t
writing, Susanna enjoys reading romance and connecting with readers online.
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