Discovering Dani
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3.2 • 45 Ratings
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
Dani O'Rourke is no stranger to hard work. She’s been raising her two brothers alone since their parents died and she owns and operates her own business, O’Rourke Cleaning Services. Spending all her time working and looking after her family means she’s never had time for men. And if she was going to look for a relationship, it wouldn’t be with an arrogant and cynical man like Burke.
A brush with death has successful businessman Burke questioning his priorities. He’s come to Jamesville for some peace and quiet to figure out what to do with the rest of his life. Catching a woman breaking into his cabin certainly isn’t part of his plan, nor is being attracted to her after her finds out just how wrong he was about her.
Burke finds himself caught up in Dani’s family, but is there room in such a gentle woman’s life for a man as hard as him?
Each book in the Jamesville series is a standalone story that can be enjoyed in any order.
Book #1: Discovering Dani
Book #2: The Way Home
Book #3: The Return of Patrick O’Rourke
Book #4: The Seduction of Shamus O'Rourke
Book #5: A Legal Affair
Book #6: By the Book
Book #7: Past Promises
Customer Reviews
Romanticized Attempted Sexual Assault
My title may sound harsh, but that is basically how this book started. If that single thread in the storyline was left out, I would have thought that this was a really sweet story. For him to assume that a woman who probably smelled like cleansers and sweat was offering herself to him and then forcing her to kiss him, and then almost immediately after she’s snuggling up to him, sends a really bad message. I was disappointed because that part was not at all necessary in setting up the story. The other two “misunderstandings” were enough to do that. :-(
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The female lead was somehow a naive innocent bashful woman of 25 who despite raising two younger brothers for the last 9 years appeared to have absolutely no understanding of male/female relationships and interactions.
The male lead was slightly better written, but still fell flat.
The couple faces ridiculous issues in their relationship that are either essentially skated over or are non-existent issues that one or the other of them overreacts to. The antagonist was a cliche and poorly written as well. Lots of wasted potential there. The dialogue is laughable, people don’t really talk like that. And from what I can tell the entire story takes place from about a week or two before Christmas to maybe Valentine’s Day. The bits of the story I wanted to read were left out or only had a few sentences of explanation and then the story dragged on after it should’ve ended so the author could “resolve” the antagonist plot line in a frankly eye rolling way. I got this free as part of a whole “discover a new series with the first book free” and I have no intentions of reading the other books. Can’t do it. This was just not well enough written to bring me back for the other books.
Read like a cheesy Hallmark movie
If you like cheesy Hallmark channel movies then you might love this book. Very cliched and too many stupid misunderstandings.