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She was only marrying him to save the vineyard...
It was just a contract, a way to access the money tied up in her inheritance. It didn’t mean anything.
She knew she mustn’t think about Mac's broad shoulders. About the intriguing tattoo that curled around his arm, how his muscular body gleamed when he worked in the warm sunshine, or how his ocean-blue eyes heated her from the inside out.
She mustn’t think about the stolen kiss, the way he’d slipped his arm around her waist to pull her against him. The soft touch of his lips on hers.
“It’ll be strictly business,” he repeated.
Yeah, right.
It was just a contract, a way to access the money tied up in her inheritance. It didn’t mean anything.
She knew she mustn’t think about Mac's broad shoulders. About the intriguing tattoo that curled around his arm, how his muscular body gleamed when he worked in the warm sunshine, or how his ocean-blue eyes heated her from the inside out.
She mustn’t think about the stolen kiss, the way he’d slipped his arm around her waist to pull her against him. The soft touch of his lips on hers.
“It’ll be strictly business,” he repeated.
Yeah, right.
Genre: contemporary romance
Publication date: March 2017
Mature content: yes
Review: As Deep as the Ocean is an engaging, original romance. Not because novels involving arrangement marriages are all that rare, but more because of the setting and the background story.
Winifred (Fred), Ginger and Sandi have left their native England to take possession of their father's inheritance. But the Blue Penguin Bay vineyard is not exactly what they expected it to be. While set against an amazingly beautiful New Zealand landscape, the story follows the three sisters' discovery of their new adoptive country and their efforts to make the vineyard flourish again. And then, if course, there is the clause in their father's will by which they can only assess his money if they are married, which creates the perfect setup for Fred to marry Mac - and the rest, as they say, is history.
There were, a few details that didn't' quite make sense for me, such as the easy acceptance of everyone in relation to Fred and Mac's sudden marriage (I would expect at least his family and friends to be a little less agreeable) and then Fred's insistence on not trusting Mac because of his father's mistakes (too much is just too much, and besides, she went and married the guy, so at least she could be a bit more understanding).
But overall, As Deep as the Ocean is fun and pleasant to read. It's also book one in the Blue Penguin Bay series, and I'm certainly considering reading the next two books in the series.
Winifred (Fred), Ginger and Sandi have left their native England to take possession of their father's inheritance. But the Blue Penguin Bay vineyard is not exactly what they expected it to be. While set against an amazingly beautiful New Zealand landscape, the story follows the three sisters' discovery of their new adoptive country and their efforts to make the vineyard flourish again. And then, if course, there is the clause in their father's will by which they can only assess his money if they are married, which creates the perfect setup for Fred to marry Mac - and the rest, as they say, is history.
But overall, As Deep as the Ocean is fun and pleasant to read. It's also book one in the Blue Penguin Bay series, and I'm certainly considering reading the next two books in the series.
Happy readings,
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