Taming The Last Acosta by Susan Stephens: Romy Winner is known as the best photographer who can get the picture that not many can. She can capture the essence of the subjects in her photos, the emotions her photos speak for themselves.
Kruz Acosta personally decided who in the press would be invited to the wedding, so when he sees Romy taking pictures he cannot accept that she is trying to get past the security he is personally taking care of. As Romy notices that she has been spotted she decides to make a run to the media room to take care of their pictures and articles.
As Kruz chases Romy he cannot help to admire her spunk and audacity but that does not mean that she will be using any material to make a scandal or gossip of any of the guest to the wedding. But after short interaction, the attraction and chemistry lead to a fast coupling.
Now he will personally see every picture and approve them before she can use them. But since her excuse for being there is that she is secretly there on a mission from the bride, and she is so distracted by Kruz she ends up giving him some of her best pictures to donate to the family charity. Good thing that she will not see him again after that night.
Little does Romy know that Kruz will also be in England and literally around the corner from her job. Now she will have to find a way to keep clear of him. Romy has learned that it’s easier and better to keep others at a distance, it is safer emotionally and physically. She is the only person that can take care of her mother, and she will not let anything get in the way of that, even an undeniable attraction that will not seize to be. But life has a surprising consequence to their fast fling for Romy and Kruz.
Romy and Kruz will have to learn to trust each other and to express their love if they are to be able to be a family for the baby they are expecting. Or loose the one chance they have at true happiness. Beware Taming The Last Acosta is a very hot and very sexy romance and you will need cool water or a fan when you read it.
Book Info
Publication Date: February 19, 2013 | Series: Harlequin Presents (Book 3126)Plus a Susan Stephens reader-favorite story: Italian Boss, Proud Miss Prim
Italian Boss, Miss Prim by Susan Stephens (Bonus Book)
In Italian Boss, Miss Prim, Katie Bannister had been studying to be an opera singer, but an unfortunate accident left her with a husky and deeper voice and scars that remind her of her misfortune every time she looks at them, with her dreams destroyed she decided to become a lawyer.
Now she is the newest junior in an attorney’s office. She knows that no one there likes that she gets attached and feels too much empathy towards her clients, something that her bosses frown upon. So when there are talks going around the office about having to let go of people, she knows that she will be one of them. But to her surprise, she is assigned to read a will to Rigo Ruggiero from his late stepbrother. Something that will help her CV look better.
Rigo does not know why his late stepbrother left him anything. He stole everything from Rigo many years before and showed him nothing but pain, why should this time be any different. What he does expect is a siren to go with the voice of the woman who called him to make the appointment with him to read him the will, even if she does have to travel to Rome and come to him.
Katie is used to being invisible, she has worked hard at it, but she cannot help but feel irritated when Rigo interrupts her in the middle of starting the reading to leave for another engagement. But the fact that he takes no consideration of her time while he goes to engage on one of his playboy ways is not something that she approves of.
To Rigo’s surprise Katie, bored of waiting decides to answer his phone, take messages and organize his desk. Something he has not been able to get to since he got rid of his last PA. Katie may just be the answer to his problem about getting a PA, and since she is very efficient, and is fluent in Italian. But after meeting her at a café while with his sister and seeing the different facets that she is hiding he cannot help but be intrigued by her.
When Katie finally, gets to read the will to Rigo he finds out that his brother has returned to him everything that he took. Now he feels excited to go back home to the family palazzo, but Katie has the feeling that he will need her now more than ever and offers to be his temporary PA.
While the attraction between them is undeniable, Katie will not act on it easily. She is attracted to him, but her fear of rejection because of her scars is too big to risk herself. Rigo will have to help Katie see that she is more than a few scars and that his love will not seize to exist because of them. While Katie will have to help Rigo heal from the pain he went through as a teenager and help him see that accepting his past will not make him weak.