Cathy Yardley, Jack & Jilted

Jack & Jilted

Cathy Yardley

Harlequin Blaze, Jan 2007, $4.75

ISBN: 0373793049

Though he made much more money being an architect, personal assistant Chloe Winton agreed to split costs from their house to their marriage with her fianc Gerald. He jilted her anyway, insisting he found someone more compatible to his desires. Stunned and unable to face her family especially her mother and aunt, Chloe looks for an out.

Captain Jack McCullough is struggling to make his honeymoon yacht profitable when his chef Kenneth quits because he eloped. Still, he has no time to obtain a cook as the bride has arrived for her honeymoon; though no groom is with her. Attracted to his client from the first time he sees her, Jack is ecstatic to learn she was jilted. As they become acquainted over a week at sea, they fall in love, but both have doubts as she is still rebounding.

Readers will feel for Chloe not so much because she was jilted though somewhat for that; more so because of the sympathy from family members who want to be nice to her. Jack also feels for the jilted bride, but part of what he sees is a courageous person moving on. Though a romantic relationship between them does not seem quite right as she still is rebounding and reeling, fans will enjoy this fine, contemporary romance between two nice people.

Harriet Klausner