A Primitive Affair

by Sharon Brondos

How Could Mr. Right Be So Wrong?

Ian Bradshaw was perfect. Outrageously funny, charming, intelligent, incredibly sexy - and all wrong for Elizabeth Marlowe.

Her life was the conservative, secure one of a Wall Street financial adviser; his was the crazy, unpredictable one of a man who explored remote jungles to study wild animals. They had nothing in common...except that they had fallen in love.

But their opposing life-styles seemed destined to keep them apart, and Elizabeth knew that compromise was the only solution. If only that didn't mean conquering her one paralyzing fear....

304 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1986

About the author

Sharon Brondos began reading mystery/crime/thriller novels about half a century ago when Ellery Queen Rex Stout and Earl Stanley Gardner were in vogue for US readers.

Her "mystery mentor her mother, Elaine, was a dedicated mystery buff, taking as many books from the local library as possible each week and making a tiny mark on the corner of a back page so she would know not to re-checkout that book.

During the following fifty years, Sharon has published two dozen commercial novels, a double handful of short stories, non-fiction articles and poems.

She lives with husband and cats in Wyoming. Three adult children and a growing number of grandchildren are in various locales around the country.

Reviews

[Kay · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 Stars ~ Elizabeth is a financial wiz living and working in Manhattan. She loves the City and her independance. When she was a child, she witnessed her parents tragic death when their small airplane crashed on landing; and ever since she's suffered a tremendous phobia for heights and flying. Ian is an ethologist and has traveled the world in his studies of animal behaviour. He's earned an international reputation and is often called on to work on wilderness film shoots and to lecture to university students. While completing his doctorate at Harvard, he'd met Elizabeth's cousin Michael and they had become fast friends, a friendship that has endured over the years. Between jobs, Ian's in New York scouting his next adventure. Michael decides to do a bit of matchmaking and he arranges for Ian to be at their Long Island estate when Elizabeth comes home for a weekend. Immediately there's a spark of attraction between the two, and Ian becomes determined to get to know Elizabeth better. While not denying her attraction to Ian, Elizabeth keeps pointing out how different their lives are, and how she loves her City life and Ian hates how claustrophobic it makes him feel. Their biggest obstacle from sharing a full life together is Elizabeth's overwhelming fear of flying. Determined to join Ian in Bali on a two week film shoot, Elizabeth takes sedatives for the flight down. On the return, she refuses to use the drugs and ends up working herself into such a state that she collapses and spends days in hospital from the bodily stress. Fearing more the loss of Ian in her life, she seeks the help of two unique women, one a psychologist specializing in phobias; the other a talented pilot.

What I enjoy about SuperRomance is that their length allows the author to fully develop the characters and their relationships. Ms. Brondos does a wonderful job of storytelling in this opposites attract love story. Ian is charming and tremendously appealing. His enormous stature and fun loving approach to life make him a stand out wherever he is. Elizabeth is the vision of class and affluence. While she's inherited a work free life, she's chosen a career that she's highly successful at. Elizabeth uses their differences to push Ian away; he uses them to show her how they complete each other. I loved how he never gave up on her and how bravely determined she was to share his life to the fullest. This read is fun and flirty balanced with heartwarming romance

[Fleur · Rating 1 out of 5]

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