Danielle's Reading Adventures

This is an awesome book. Harriet is the typical, prudish, retiring type girl, who gets fed up with her life after her fiance dumps her for being to boring. She gets a little drunk at the Christmas party at work and it turns out she sleeps with her boss, who's shoulder she cries on. It's a little embarrassing, but Harriet is ready to move on anyway and live her life, so she tries to resign. But her boss Marcus is not willing to let go of her, namely because he's been in love with her for sometime. He loved her in her previous incarnation, but isn't sure what to do with her new, reckless, bleach-blonde, sexy-dressing, hot-rod driving car self. But he's going to pursue to get her back and in his life.This was a fun book. I had never read a book with a heroine who was a bleach-blonde when I read it. I enjoyed Harriet's rather reckless behavior and her desire to have fun and enjoy life. It was fairly harmless, and Marcus was there looking over her shoulder to keep her from falling into another man's arms. When he finds out she wants a no-strings attached affair, he selflessly volunteers himself out. He even moves into her apartment building (okay, maybe it's a little stalkerish, but it works). He introduces her to his young teenaged daughter Natalia and asks her to watch out for her (although you'd wonder why he'd want the new, wild and crazy Harriet anywhere near his impressionable daughter, but it's clear that he has a lifelong agenda). Marcus is a typical Susan Napier hero, big, sexy, alpha, but a little on the conservative side, but not too much to appreciate Harriet.There is a wonderful twist (I absolutely refuse to give it away) that was icing on the top of this wonderful dessert. This is a more lighthearted romance, with two characters that you like as people and want to get together, and the journey is very entertaining. I like that Harriet doesn't have any plans to go back to being staid. Despite becoming a wife and mom, she keeps her bleach blonde hair and her fun demeanor. This book has a great epilogue, by the way.