Reviewer: Lori Graham
Title: Paying The Playboy's Price - Part of the Trust Fund Affairs
Author: Emilie Rose
Publisher: Silhouette
ISBN: 0-373-71365-7
Release Date: June 2006
Genre/Sub-genre: Contemporary Series Romance
Year/Setting: Current/North Carolina
Overall Rating: 4.25
Sexual Content Rating: Sexual
Language (Profanity) Content Rating: None
Violent Content Rating: None
Emilie's Website:
www.emilierose.com
Juliana Alden has a responsible position working for the bank owned by her family and her family is incredibly wealthy. She has the respect that comes with the position, she is very attractive and can afford what she wants to keep looking good, and she has some great friends. Why then does she feel so dissatisfied?
Her mother has even pointed out a great relationship Juliana could have with the crook of her finger. Her family is looking at merging with another family bank and they just happen to have a son who is single as well. He is attractive as well but even better he understands the life they all lead with hectic hours and being part of the social ladder. With this match, she finally wouldn’t have to worry about the man being involved with her for her money. Even with that why is she dissatisfied?
Could it be she is turning 30 and is questioning living so much under her mother’s authority? Of wanting her mother’s approval so much?
Her two best friends are also turning 30 so the three of them decide it is time to be rebels – after all being good girls isn’t getting them anywhere. So, they all attend a society banquet with a bachelor auction to buy a man they wouldn’t normally be with. Juliana’s decision is based on the bachelor who looks the part. Little did she know that there was more to Rex than met the eye. Rex was a country music star who finally had had enough of the life on the road and the endless road of women. He has now sworn off women forever but agrees to do this auction because he wants the free publicity for the new bar he has invested in (free is important because he has sunk every last dime into the bar). Maybe by stepping out of the "norm" they will each find what they are looking for.
I have to admit I can’t imagine being wealthy and worrying about men wanting me for my money. I can’t imagine being a music star and having men throw themselves at me. However, with Emilie Roses’s writings, I do find myself being my empathetic towards those who do deal with this situation.
Juliana’s bottom line struggle is finding out who she is. Finding the right man, working hard in her career, wearing the right clothing, etc. are really all symptoms of the underlying problem – just who is Juliana. Is she the conservatively dressed banker by day and the motorcycle riding, short dress wearing siren by night? There is a very real internal struggle going on for Juliana that when you break it down isn’t that different from the struggles all women face. When our life roles are removed, who are we? You have to give Emilie Rose credit for taking Juliana out of her "box" in Paying the Playboy’s Price. The way she wove her magic between the two characters as they worked towards some happiness was quite clever and fun to read.
Lori
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