by Jo Goodman
This one should have come with a trigger warning for references to child sexual abuse. It explained a lot about the heroine and I thought the hero did a good job of being careful and observant even before he knew her background. I was afraid I would see too many similarities with other novels I ha...
I wanted to rate this higher because the writing was excellent. But in the end I could not because, man, could the heroine have been any more tortured? Given all the horrors that Jo Goodman heaped upon this poor woman raped and pimped out by her own father to pedophiles from age 6 through age 12...
Summary:Olivia Cole is devastated to learn that her ne'er-do-well brother has promised her to the operator of a London gaming hall as payment of his debts. Olivia accepts her fate-even if it means that her reputation will suffer from living among rogues and gamblers. But when she meets the sexy and ...
I like the way Jo Goodman develops her characters.