Title: Dated "Rebecca" knock-off
Product review: Lauri leave the Big Apple to take a job as a private tutor for the deaf child of widowed soap star Drake Rivington at his home in Santa Fe. Sparks fly when he returns home from shooting and finds that in addition to being her tutor, Jennifer thinks of Lauri as a surrogate mom figure. Lauri falls for Drake but lives in the shadow of Susan, his perfect ballerina wife. Their loneliness, love for Jennifer and mutual passion bring them closer together, but Lauri still feels like a pale version of ethereal Susan.Brown's dated and misogynistic "Rebecca" knock-off pales in comparison to the original, but heats up the pages with steamy passages sure to curl your toes. And little Jennifer will steal even the most jaded reader's heart. But like so many early Brown novels, the romance is rushed and the dialogue pretty clunky, making this a less-than-stellar read.
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