This was one of those books that I never quite wanted to stop reading, even though I wasn't especially enjoying. There was at least something in it that made me want to get to the end, and I did.

So Dory has been in lust (er love) with Chase (the chauffeur's son) since she was 14 and he 19. He, on the other hand, was in lust with her sister, which was why he got sent away. (They were caught in the barn.) Over the sixteen years that follow, a lot changes, especially a prck of a second cousin who goes to work for daddy's bank and steals 35 million, managing to frame her parents, send them into hiding, and strip the family fortune.

Welcome back Chase, who notices that Dory's a lot cuter than she was at 14 (well, duh, 14-year-olds are not, as a rule, cute, and the ones who are....you know what, never mind. :) )He's interested in her for about two days, even going so far as to marvel that he could have ever been interested in her shallow, stupid sister. Then the sister returns, and he loses his mind.

This is also where the story lost me, even though I couldn't stop reading. Jill (the sister) initiates "Project Cockroach" to squash Chase beneath her feet (they were mad at him over some stupidity). Basically, she flirts outrageously and won't put out. (She's in love with an undercover FBI guy who's been watching the family.) Chase decides to marry her, but I don't know why. I truly don't believe his motivations for marrying Jill. I don't understand why he ultimately changed his mind and went after the "right" sister. I don't understand why that sister still "loved" him after 16 years, especially since what she loved about him in the first place was how he looked washing cars without his shirt on.

I think this was supposed to be funny, but the humor failed for me. Maybe if it hadn't, the character motivations wouldn't have bugged me so much, although I doubt it. They were really messed up.

Was an interesting read, but not, alas, a very good one.