2 stars! **
Title: On the Ropes (Hearts and Minds, #4)
Her life on hold for too long, Janette Hinson has returned to the United States in search of a mother she hasn’t seen in twenty-five years. But to find her Jan will have to accept help from the one man she desperately wants to avoid: Stephen Scott. Sexy, rich, powerful, and dominating, Stephen has been pursuing Jan for the last year, and she’s the first to admit he more than has what it takes to hold a woman’s interest. But her traumatic past has kept from true intimacy all these years. Yet she senses a darkness in Stephen, one that goes beyond the rumors of his kinkier side…
Stephen Scott is not a man to take no for an answer. Ever since he met Jan he hasn’t been able to get her off of his mind. And no matter how many hours he spends at work, he can’t get the hot little vixen out of his system. It’s time to prove he wants more than just a fling, despite his dark sexual history. What he wants from Jan is to Master her. In every way.
This is what you call a book about absolutely nothing. There was basically no plot, no twists, no romance, anything..
Janette was raised by her father after she and her mother were involved in an accident. He already has his own little family by that time and he didn't care for her. She had lonely and quiet childhood. Afer twenty five years she decided to hire an investigator to look for her mother. To her surprise her mother is still alive. Jan decided to leave her tiny island and fly to the USA. Here she meets her friend Stephen.
Stephen is a lawyer and spends way to much time at work. His partners didn't even want to let him leave on a four-day vacation. He's completely spend, tired and doesn't even like his job anymore. When Janette calls him and asks him for help he agrees. He wanted her for a long time and hes going to finally get her. And not just as a temporary hook-up.
It was long, tiring book. I didn't even enjoy it. I saw no development - either in the relationship (it went from zero to hundred in two pages) or in Janette herself. She was afraid of her own shadow. And everything else.
If this book was a novella and the author cut it about hundred pages shorter it would have been a lot better and I might have even enjoyed it. But it wasn't and I didn't.
*ARC courtesy of publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review*
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