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A review by lmrivas54
The Contract by Melanie Moreland
4.0
Cheesy loveliness!
I loved this story! It reads like one of the many Harlequin love stories I used to devour as a teenager, except more detailed and extensive, and therefore, even better. Richard is an advertisement executive who has just been passed over as partner in his company. Being a very ambitious man, he's extremely pissed, more because he was tricked out of the partnership. He decides to get even, getting a job at a competing agency. The problem is, this agency is run by a successful executive who stresses on family values, and Richard has a reputation as "a Dick". Therefore he needs a girlfriend who will make him seem tamer and more suited to the role. Enter his PA, Katherine. He has been a jerk to her, demeaning, insulting, inconsiderate. Yet, when he offers her the "job" as his fiancee with all the monetary gains she will receive, she takes the job because she badly needs the money to pay the home where her aunt Penny lives. Thus starts the trip down domesticated lane for Richard and Katy. Richard gets a lot of surprises from Katy, and the jolts do a good work of awakening hidden emotions from Richard's withered and frozen heart. It was a great story, a little cheesy at parts, but very enjoyable. Some of their dialogues were priceless, where Katy put Richard in his place and left him speechless. It was like seeing a sturdy building topple down. I enjoyed the taming of the "Dick" a lot!
I loved this story! It reads like one of the many Harlequin love stories I used to devour as a teenager, except more detailed and extensive, and therefore, even better. Richard is an advertisement executive who has just been passed over as partner in his company. Being a very ambitious man, he's extremely pissed, more because he was tricked out of the partnership. He decides to get even, getting a job at a competing agency. The problem is, this agency is run by a successful executive who stresses on family values, and Richard has a reputation as "a Dick". Therefore he needs a girlfriend who will make him seem tamer and more suited to the role. Enter his PA, Katherine. He has been a jerk to her, demeaning, insulting, inconsiderate. Yet, when he offers her the "job" as his fiancee with all the monetary gains she will receive, she takes the job because she badly needs the money to pay the home where her aunt Penny lives. Thus starts the trip down domesticated lane for Richard and Katy. Richard gets a lot of surprises from Katy, and the jolts do a good work of awakening hidden emotions from Richard's withered and frozen heart. It was a great story, a little cheesy at parts, but very enjoyable. Some of their dialogues were priceless, where Katy put Richard in his place and left him speechless. It was like seeing a sturdy building topple down. I enjoyed the taming of the "Dick" a lot!