REVIEW: One Week In Your Arms by Patricia Preston

 
One Week In Your Arms by Patricia Preston: Doctor Marla Grant runs the Lafayette Fall Community Clinic. When someone threatens to pull funding for the clinic, she discovers the culprit is none other than Carson Blackwell, the man she had a fling with six years earlier, a fling that left her with a daughter.

Despite the six years that have past, Carson can’t get Marla out of his mind. He figures a threat to pull funding will bring her to his office so he could see her again. When he needs someone to go to Hawaii with him to pose as his girlfriend, he makes her a deal: take the trip and funding for the clinic will be reinstated.

I enjoyed the story, but a couple of things bothered me. One was that Marla flipped flopped between whether she should tell Carson about his daughter or not, which was a bit frustrating. She had plenty of opportunities to tell him but kept putting it off. When she invites him back to Tennessee, she doesn’t tell him that the purpose is to meet Sophie. In fact, she doesn’t tell him she has a child at all and the way he finds out is less than ideal. Instead of all the back and forth, it would have been better if she just admitted the truth.

The second thing is that Marla’s ex-husband, Ben, had raised Sophie as his own until he moved away, but he still kept in constant contact with her. He was the only father Sophie had known in her young life. There’s no mention as to how he reacted to the news that Sophie’s father was now in the picture. I would have liked to have gotten some reaction from him, but the fact that there wasn’t didn’t take away from my overall enjoyment of the story..

Despite my frustrations with Marla, I enjoyed One Week In Your Arms. I would recommend it for anyone who enjoys a second chance romance.

Book Info:

 September 13, 2016 | Kensington Lyrical Shine |

Six years ago, ambitious med student Marla Grant gave into temptation with a gorgeous man. Now a busy doctor and a loving single mom, the only thing that matters to Marla more than her adorable daughter is the Lafayette Falls Community Clinic. When its funding is threatened, Marla is determined to find out why until she learns the person responsible is none other than the powerful, persuasive man of her long-ago fling and the unsuspecting father of her child…

Carson Blackwell has never forgotten bright, beautiful Marla. When he discovers that she runs the clinic his grandmother’s foundation funds, it’s the perfect chance to put an end to his ongoing infatuation-and use his leverage to cement a new business deal. He needs a fake girlfriend for one week in Hawaii, and Marla is just the woman for the job. It’s a win-win situation until they realize the attraction between them isn’t feigned and the heat has never died down. Only the secrets they’re both keeping stand in the way of a future together and a love that could last a lifetime.