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    Tempting

    By Susan Mallery

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    After three romantic flame-outs in a year and a restaurant career going nowhere, Dani Buchanan needs a fresh start. She goes looking for her biological father, but never expects to find a senator running for president. As his long-lost "love child," Dani could seriously derail the election, something his handsome campaign manager Alex Canfield isn't going to let happen. Dani isn't about to let Alex run her life, no matter how tempting she finds him--and Alex isn't going to allow Dani to melt his cynicism, no matter how close he has to get. The last thing either of them wants is love, especially with scandals brewing and family trouble on the way. But Dani and Alex are forced to trust each other, and when trust turns to passion, the potential for disaster is only a tabloid scandal away.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarlequin HQN
    Release dateJun 15, 2012
    ISBN9781459247789
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    Susan Mallery

    #1 NYT bestselling author Susan Mallery writes heartwarming, humorous novels about the relationships that define our lives—family, friendship, romance. She's known for putting nuanced characters in emotional situations that surprise readers to laughter. Beloved by millions, her books have been translated into 28 languages.Susan lives in Washington with her husband, two cats, and a small poodle with delusions of grandeur. Visit her at SusanMallery.com.

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    • 2/5
      I read about a third of this book before I quit. I can read almost any book if it has three-dimensional characters. Disappointingly, I could sum up each character in this book with just a few words, for example "beautiful but shallow, conniving ex-wife" and "attractive and good-hearted woman looking for a place to belong." With such characterizations, it was easy to predict the main points of the plot, and I became tired of reading through scenes where I already knew what was going to happen.
    • 1/5
      This book needed a sensitivity reader or two. A lot of the language used teemed with microaggressions. If you want to read about the white savor complex, go for it.

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    • 5/5
      I just love Susan Mallery's writing. Her books are such an easy read and very easy for you to get lost in. I started this book yesterday and did not stop till I finished it at 2am. I really liked this book and loved Dani and Alex. So far none of her books have let me down :-)
    • 4/5
      This is a great book. I haven't read the previous Buchanan books, but this one stands perfectly well on its own. The plot is perfectly constructed, deceptively simple yet never boring.And all the characters are fun to read. Best of all, the chemistry between the two main characters, Dani and Alex, is convincing and highly entertaining. The attraction between these two comes alive off of the page and, despite their relatively brief acquaintance, you can really see them fall for each other as the pages progress. Of course, there's much more going on than just the romance between Dani and Alex. There's several relationships portrayed here, romantic and familial, and each one is wonderful story in itself. I particularly enjoyed reading about Alex's mother, Katherine, who is a very well-developed character. Her emotions, above all others, come across in a rich way. Susan Mallery just may be a new favorite, if all her books are as delightful as this one.
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this book. Dani goes looking for her biological father and discovers that he is a senator who is running for president. What she was not expecting was Alex Canfield, her father's adopted son. Of course romance ensues between Dani and Alex and like every good love story there is intrigue and misunderstandings that the lovers have to overcome. Overall, a very standard love story but I love Susan Mallery's style of writing. This apparently is book 4 in the Buchannan saga but I have not read the other three, so whereas the book alludes to the other three romances you don't feel lost. That being said this one makes me want to read the other 3.
    • 3/5
      Tempting is the fourth book in The Buchanans series, and while I haven't read any of the other books yet, I have to say this one worked quite well as a stand alone read (that being said, I do plan on reading the other books in the series).So why did I choose the read the last book in the series first? Simply put, the plot intrigued me. That, and I was at my parents' house doing laundry one day and happened to have just bought this book along with a few others, and this one simply appealed the most at the time.When Dani Buchanan goes in search of her biological father, she doesn't expect to find a senator smack dab in the middle of a presedential campaign. She also doesn't expect to find Alex Canfield--the proverbial dragon at Senator Canfield's gates.Yes, you read that right. Alex and the Senator both have the same last name. And Senator Canfield is Dani's biological father.Let me explain. Alex is actually the senator's adopted son. Still, though, there is a slight ick factor that comes into play when one thinks about the idea of the biological daugther and adopted son falling in love with each other. However, I have to say that Mallery handles that particular aspect of the relationship very well. In fact, it's even addressed through the very magnified lens that is the media. Besides, it's hard to come up with with a bigger Big Obstacle to keep your hero and heroine apart, all things considered.Along with the whole I'm-falling-in-love-with-my-adopted-brother-who-I-just-met thing, Dani's also dealing with a bit of an identity crisis. And after three failed relationships in a year combined with a restaurant career that's going nowhere, Dani isn't exactly feeling too sure of herself. Despite those obstacles, though, she still manages to keep her sense of humor. Dani is a heroine who could very easily have fallen into the "whiny" category, and yet she somehow manages to not let everything drag her down to the very bottom of the despair pit. It's always interesting to see how writers pull heroines like that off, and Mallery does it quite well.Alex, too, has some issues. He's recently gone through a divorce, but unfortunately his mother is still friends with his ex wife. After catching Fiona (his ex) screwing another man on the kitchen table, Alex understandably has some trust issues where women are concerned. However, he can't deny the attraction he feels for Dani.As their romance threatens to cause Senator Canfield's campaign to implode, Dani and Alex find themselves the subjects of not only media scrutiny but familial scrutiny as well. Mallery has put together a fantastic cast of secondary characters, and the secondary plot involving Katherine and Senator Canfield (Alex's adopted parents) is quite good. Katherine's character, especially, is very well fleshed out and extremely interesting. Here's a woman who loves her husband more than anything and then finds out he'd had an affair with Dani's mother while he and Katherine had been on a "break" (for lack of a better term). Katherine also can't have children, thus she and the Senator made the decision to adopt special needs children and provide them with a loving, stable home. Being a proud woman who's very much in the spotlight, though, Katherine is quite worried about what people will think when they find out that the Senator has a biological daughter and they put two and two together and realize that Katherine is somehow "defective."Thus, Katherine resents Dani a little bit, for the younger woman is a constant reminder of everything that is wrong with her. Enter Fiona, the two-timing, deceiving ex-wife. Katherine has no idea what caused Alex to file for divorce, primarily because Alex didn't want to air their dirty laundry (and also because his pride toook a bit of a blow). Fiona senses Katherine's resentment towards Dani, and uses that to her advantage to try to push Dani and Alex apart.Needless to say, Dani and Alex do end up happily ever after, but getting there isn't exactly easy for either of them.Like any book, though, it wasn't flawless. I did catch that most evil of evils--head hopping--in quite a few places. And while I was a bit disappointed in all the head hopping, the book was also so interesting that it was incredibly difficult to put down.This book was an excellent study in character development, though. Mallery has definitely mastered the art of creating believable, likeable, flawed characters who grow and learn and who the reader finds herself rooting for until the very end.
    • 5/5
      Tempting was just that from the moment Dani Buchanan entered the Senator's office to find out if he was her biological father. What she didn't expect was to run head on into the handsome and sexy Alex Canfield, the Senator's adoptive son. Dani's luck with men during the past few years was a disaster......a failed marriage, a cheating and lying married man; she was his victim, and then meeting an ex-priest, what a mess. So Dani decided she would swear off men and would concentrate on her new job and finding out if Senator Canfield was her biological father. The only way to describe this book was an emotional one for me and the end of Susan Mallery's incredible Buchanan family series. The past books sum up my thoughts, Delicious, Irresistible and Sizzling. In each former book you meet Dani's strong and callous Grandmother Gloria and her three brothers, Cal, Walker and Reid all of whom are involved in Buchanan Enterprises and run a chain of restaurants, a coffee company and a sports bar. Dani you'll learn is the only family member other than her sister-in-law Penny in having a career with Buchanan Enterprises. The others are blackmailed by their "nasty" grandmother Gloria into helping save the business and when Gloria becomes seriously ill, they all rise to the cause and pitch in to help out Cal takes over the Waterfront Restaurant, Walker runs the corporation, Reid moves into to the mansion to help out with Gloria and her recovery. However, Dani is hurt that all of her years trying to impress her Grandmother have been for nothing. In the end when Gloria strikes out and tells Dani, she's not really a Buchanan and that her mother had an affair and she was the product of it, she's plain and simply devastated. Of course, she takes stalk in her life, swears off men, begins a new job in a new restaurant and sets out to find out who she is with her brothers and sister-in-laws giving her the love and support she needs. During this "discovery" time, her Grandmother realizes with the help of her nurse that she needs to appreciate her family and Gloria rises to the cause, by making amends with her grandsons, their wives and makes strides to mend her relationship with her granddaughter, Dani. The bond these two women form will make you weep! Tempting is about family, trust, temptation, healing and the power of love. But most of all about family and discovery! I applaud Susan Mallery on her very powerful series, one I will long remember! It's family, finding one's self, family dynamics and Susan ties everything together in only the way she, this talented author does with every book she writes.Book