Heart’s Desire
Heart’s Desire, July 1998, A 4 1/2 star Romantic Times Top Pick! In HEART’S DESIRE, Monica Jackson offers romance readers the greatest gift of all; a story packed with adventure, mystery, a hero to sigh for, a heroine to cheer for and a romance that will warm our heart’s for years to come. –Romantic Times
A gifted writer, Ms. Jackson creates marvelous, complex characters. She tightens their relationships until their actions threaten the security of others in this fascinating drama. Good news. You’ll meet some of them again in another book.–Rendezvous
Kara Smith’s mother’s dying words told her that the father she believed was long dead was alive and well, Congressman, Sidney Eastman. From the moment that Kara learns how her father had abandoned and rejected her pregnant mother, she vowed revenge at any cost. In a desperate attempt to get close to her father, she sets her sights on Brent Stevens, his loyal, unshakably honest right hand man.
But her gamble only ignites uncontrollable passions that leave both her and Brent hungry for more. Then as Kara is drawn into her father’s intimate circle and family, she starts to flounder in the Eastman family’s dangerous games and desperate secrets. Before she realizes, the stakes are higher than Kara ever imagined, with the man she wants, the family she never had, and the father’s love she yearns for sitting on the table.
Will she play the right cards? Will her luck carry her through, or will she lose all her heart’s desires? Kara learns that money and power can be only a thin veneer covering heartbreak, and dysfunction, because all too often what you think you want is a far cry from your true heart’s desire.
Heart’s Desire is moderately spicy, fast paced, and the characters have complex motivations, to say the least. They are not your perfecty romance characters either. Think soap opera high drama with a touch of ironic humor. The book is tongue-in-cheek, a subtle play on overtly soap-operaish romances, which I think are funny and enjoy when I’m in the mood.
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