Reconcilable Differences

by Elizabeth Ashtree

Mills & Boon Blush series brings you moving, true-to-life romancesProsecutor Gwendolyn Haverty puts bad guys in jail…and keeps them there. That isn't easy when defence lawyers like Aaron Zimmerman try to spring them out again. Zimmerman is a rumpled do-gooder on a mission to free the innocent - which, of course, includes every single one of his clients behind bars!

His latest mission's success depends on convincing Gwen to listen to his witness. Fine. That ten minutes she gives Aaron to plead his case results in a ridiculous cell phone mix-up… and a play date for their two boys? She's not sure how the line between professional and personal gets blurred so quickly. But it can't happen again. She can't let this man, no matter how compassionate, into her heart.

Genres: Romance, Harlequin, Category Romance

288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published July 1, 2011

Reviews

[Saly · Rating 3 out of 5]

There is a reason that I don't read the Superromance line much because sometimes they can be such downers and I guess this book was one of them. The characters were never happy with one obstacle after another in their path. The heroine's ex who was abusive to her wants full custody of their son, the h/H are on opposing sides and her boss hates H. The hero was a nice likeable character, a genuinely good guy and father while the heroine left me cold. Even at the end I wasn't left with a happy resolved feeling, she was still working a crazy job with a boss she didn't like with insane hours. Meh!

[Chain Reading · Rating 2 out of 5]

Did not finish, which always raises the possibility that the book would have gotten better if I persisted. The story of a prosecutor who falls for a defense attorney was interesting, but the author seemed more interested in showing the consequences rather than illustrating why and how they fall for each other.

[Amy · Rating 2 out of 5]

There was enough going on in this book to keep me reading, but it really wasn't anything special. First of all the title "Reconcilable Differences" well it made me think it would be a divorce story where they don't go through with it, in other words they decide they do love each other and they have hot-to-trot make-up time. Nope. Wasn't the story at all! It says it's a "Harlequin Super Romance", but it's really just a mediocre story line that concentrates on the main character, Gwen keeping her kid. There were several details that seemed wrong and like they didn't need to be there. Then there was the whole the-guy-is-grieving-over-a-case-thing-and-they-end-up-having-one-night-of-passion-that-is-nondescriptive-and-really-quite-a-ridiculous-situation. Overall, I'd say I do not recommend this book.

[Gail · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good read. It had a lot of mainstream fiction elements, including child custody and verbal abuse and legal ethics. The heroine is a divorced single mother lawyer working in the local prosecutor's office on cases brought back on appeals after conviction. The hero is the widowed single dad lawyer bringing many of those appeals. And that's the source of most of the conflict-- his lingering guilt over moving on after his wife's death, her issues with her manipulative ex, dealing with their children and their conflicting jobs... It was a good story, though the romance kind of got a bit lost in all that. It was tangled up in all that, too. I enjoyed reading it.

[Josie]

The premise just wasn't working for me and I found it difficult to connect with the hero and heroine. This was a DNF for me.

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