Alan is Ebony's guardian since she was fifteen. He is around fourteen years older than her. She hero-worshiped him, then it turned into love when she was seventeen and thew herself at him at eighteen. He felt in lust with her when she was eighteen. He resisted because he felt guilty. However, 3 years later, they started a steamy, all-consuming and very secret only-sex affair. Around them , everybody thinks they cannot stand each other. When the book starts, she is tired of being his dirty secret and wants to leave him to marry an old friend.
How is he going to talk her out of that? Is she going to bargain for a more public relationship? If so, how is Alan's family going to react when they discover that he has been secretly sleeping with the sweet and innocent Ebony since years?
Alan is a hero not everybody would like. Though he sometimes does some good deeds (who does not?), he is jealous, unfeeling and he uses her as a sex doll. I really did not see why Ebony loved him so much, apart from his good looks. Really. But then, they say love is a mystery.
Ebony, on the other hand, was a very likable heroine. Apart from the fact that she accepted the secrecy of her affair with Alan, she was a very independent and modern woman. She was also very successful in her modelling career and had a big heart.
A sizzling sexual tension, a love-hate all-consuming relationship, a dark passion. It is burning here!!! You've got some dramatic scenes, like when Alan's mother catch the two lovers naked in Alan's bed. She nearly got a heart attack so much was her surprise. One of her first thoughts is "when did it start?". She is terrified of the response and breathe when Alan tells her that it started when Ebony was twenty-one years old. Brrrr.
You should really read it. As a guardian-ward story, it was really good. I really liked the fact that he only started lusting after her when she was a young woman. Well done, Miranda Lee!
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