
He’s certainly a very comforting fantasy.

I’ve never said this about a romance novel hero before, but this guy is too good to be true. He’s tall, dark, handsome, friendly, helpful, possessive in a secretly attractive way, smart, sexy, supportive, wry, a good listener, seductive, mature, chivalrous, manly, mellifluous-voiced, physically fit, generous, emotionally available, funny, polite, mad for Ella, and willing to take on a newborn.

Jack is a self-made man and the son of a billionaire. He is quickly dismissed as a candidate, but sticks around anyway because of his interest in Ella. insists the he did not have sex with Ella’s sister. This turns into a three-month sojourn while Ella’s sister receives psychological counselling.īut enough about the maguffin and on to the main event of any Lisa Kleypas romance: Jack Travis is Ella’s first candidate for the child’s father despite his protestations that he a. Ella drops everything, including her long-term, vegan, environmental activist live-in boyfriend, to go and help out.

When Ella’s sister leaves her one-week-old baby with their mother, Ella is summoned from Austin to Houston to help sort out the mess. The same cannot be said for her mother or younger sister. Through time and counseling she has built a healthy life for herself. You read romance novels for fetishistic allure guy.Įlla Varner is the product of a repeatedly broken home and, far worse, of a narcissistic and manipulative mother. You marry suitcase guy and secretly hope he will carry heavy things for you anyway, not because you can’t, but because you are lazy. Jesus, GOD, YES! Lisa Kleypas, you just get me.

Unimpeachably male, so damn sure of himself, held a secret, nearly fetishistic allure to me.“ “I had always gone in the other direction, toward men like Dane who made you kill your own spidersĪnd carry your own suitcase.That was exactly what I wanted.
