Then Comes Marriage
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Publisher Description
After Honor Witherspoon is rescued from her kidnappers, all she wants is to live in Hot Water, a small town that symbolises safety. Her billionaire father, Warren, wants to ensure his daughter is definitely secure. Going to outrageous lengths to keep her guarded, Warren demands something extreme of his daughter: she must marry Bram Bennett, a recluse living behind the locked gates in a home nicknamed The Fortress. Bram lost his wife eight years ago to a random carjacking-gone-bad, and he cant seem to get over his loss. Still deeply attached to her memory, he rarely exits his house. When Warren threatens to destroy the high-tech security company Bram recently sold him the company thats the economic foundation of Hot Water if Bram doesnt marry Warrens daughter, Bram reluctantly accepts a new person into his home. But with Honor now residing in his fortress, Bram finds it extremely difficult to uphold his tight security, ward off unwanted intruders, and fight off his sexual attraction to his beautiful wife.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in the imaginary town of Hot Water, Calif., Ridgway's newest contemporary romance (after First Comes Love)puts a sexy spin on an old romance clich the marriage of convenience. Near strangers Honor Witherspoon and hunky computer genius Bram Bennett are temporarily forced into marriage by Honor's millionaire father. The justifications for this preposterous act are murky at best, but the result is crystal clear: instant attraction. Despite the sexuality that simmers between the pair, they hold back for much of the story. Bram is still grieving the death of his young wife, Alicia, tragically murdered eight years earlier, and the innately gregarious Honor is still suffering post-traumatic stress from a terrifying kidnapping. Even after they succumb to temptation, both resist giving their hearts to each other. Ridgway's warm, energetic voice masks plot and characterization points as flimsy as Honor's red negligee. Comic subplots such as an alien sighting by a local man (an event that overruns the tiny town with loony thrill-seekers hoping for another close encounter) also serve to pad the story and will remind readers that this is a world of fantasy, after all.
