** spoiler alert ** I downloaded this one for free from the Harlequin website a few weeks ago and started reading it earlier this week as a brain break from reading that I needed to do for my class. I typically don't find romances to be very realistic, but it usually doesn't bother me because I just consider them to be a different form of fantasy, but this book was even more unrealistic than the typical romance.

First, there is a heroine who has twins and yet has a perfect body only four months later. She's managed to start up a successful gift basket business during that time and is apparently making enough money to be able to pay all of her bills, a mortgage, and support two babies all one her own. She must have some miraculous marketing skills to have garnered that much clientele, plus the tremendous amount of time she would need to spend to personally make all of those gift baskets.

Then we have a hero who dumped her after only a week a little over a year ago, and yet they both can't stop thinking of each other to this day. The hero considers her to be a routine liar, continuously plots against the heroine, is angry with her most of the time, and to top it all off, threatens to take custody of her children if she doesn't do what he wants.

Is this guy in *any* way likable at all? Then at the end they are in "love" and getting married? Er...where was all the love again? Sure, plenty of lust all the way through, but there was practically never a moment the whole way through that expressed any amount of love from either of them.

Sure, I get the whole alpha male thing, but in other alpha male romances, the guy still has some redeeming qualities. It tends to be more of a surface cruelty. This guy has nothing redeeming about him the whole way through and only "admits" to love at the very end, and then only because he feels coerced into it. Just not believable at all.

It was still fun to read, and it was free, so I gave it a couple of stars, but it was definitely not one of the better romances I've read.