If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. It's free and a great way to keep up to date. Thanks for visiting! ~Keira.

This category romance would make a great farcical romantic comedy movie. Just keep reading and you’ll know what I mean.

The Bryants – Jane (heroine), Guy (brother)
The Dysons – Stuart (fiancé), Pauline (future sister-in-law)

Two pairs of brother and sister pretend to be married to each other in order to land a job on an archaeological site in Greece. The heroine is engaged to the brother of the other pair. Her future sister-in-law crushes hard on the site’s leading archaeologist. The dig boss and hero fights falling in love with the heroine. The only supposedly single man on the site falls hard for the future sister-in-law. The only one not romantically inclined is the brother of the heroine.

Sounds crazy? It was!

The hero, Dr. Nikolas Vallas, hates adulterers. He rides hard on the heroine, Jane Bryant, who he sees as the worse of the lot. Guy is either clueless to his wife’s behavior or doesn’t have the masculinity to reign her in or divorce her. Pauline is a creature to pity as she’s utterly clueless to her husband and best friend’s deception. Stuart is a cheating bastard. But Jane--- she takes the cake. She cheats on her husband, with her best friend’s husband, and the son of his long time friend, Tim.

Tim figures out the deception and what Nikolas perceives as more acts of adultery is in fact very innocent. Tim is using Jane as a sounding board for his attempts to win Pauline’s affections. Pauline however is mooning over Nikolas and doesn’t like Tim’s attention one bit. Jane meanwhile is reeling from something Tim said about love. He said something along the lines of “If you’re really in love, you couldn’t wait to be married.” Jane finds herself falling in love with a man who hates everything about her and seems to be falling in love with Pauline.

Petals Drifting is a very erroneous title for the plot. They’re there in the off season for tourists. It’s not fall. It’s more like spring. Anyway, the story is very tense, very quick, and solid. I devoured it.

Rating: 4 Stars

Buy: Petals Drifting

More Fun Posts

• Regency: Love, Romance, and Passion! by Rebecca Ann Collins, guest blogger and author of My Cousin Caroline Love, Romance and Passion are the essential ingredients of many modern novels set in the Regency period—a  mere...
• Author Love #3 Welcome to the third edition of author love. We've got book reviews, how-tos, and writing tips. Book Reviews swapnil warang presents switch2life: Book Review:"White Man Falling" posted at switch2life. GrrlScientist...
• Review: Some Nerve by Jane Heller By: Cara Lynn, guest reviewer Some Nerve by Jane Heller promised to be an interesting book, but it turned out to be less than I had hoped for. The cover...
• Review: Taken by the Highest Bidder by Jane Porter (no spoilers) By: Cara Lynn, guest reviewer This one had a few twists and turns I didn't see coming, and it was more believable. The background of the leading characters unfolds throughout...
• Review: The Greek's Virgin by Trish Morey I would say for about ninety percent of this book I thought it was excellent. Perfect execution, I liked the characters, I was involved in the revenge trope, and things...

Potentially Related Websites

• Getting Picky Eaters to Eat Healthy
• Picoult, Jodi
• Christian Dating Sites - What Does Your Future Hold
• I suspect my sister is cheating on her spouse, how do I confront her about it?
• Step Brothers: Too Much of a Good Thing

Categories:

4 Stars, Big Misunderstanding, Category, Comedy of Manners, Contemporary, G-I, Greece, Love Triangle, Mistaken Identity, Science, Teacher, Writer

Tags:

adulterers, adultery, affections, Anne Hampson, brother and sister, category romance, dysons, friend tim, heroine, jane bryant, long time friend, masculinity, nikolas, pauline, petals, romantic comedy, single man, sister in law, sounding board, tim tim, vallas