I keep forgetting to blog about this! Thankfully, a new CD reminded me.
The Betts I just finished, The Bachelor's Wedding was part of Harlequin's "Holding out for a Hero" series. I'm a Gen Xer, so of course for the last nine or ten days, I've been thinking of the melodramatic Bonnie Tyler song. I suspect the people in the marketing meetings were also amused by this - one couldn'tcome up with a "Holding out for a Hero" marketing campaign without being aware of the song, could one?
I'm not sure that Jason, reader of Juvenal and Horace (in the original, of course), really meets the description of a hero. He did save Araminta from her horrible family, but with a few less scruples she could've done that herself. And the rescue at the end was a bit contrived - Jason's sister called at 5 am, saying her son is missing and possibly injured in this horrible storm, but it takes him seven-odd hours (including an unnecessary stop at the London house) to get there. There wasn't anyone else who could've gone in search of the kid?
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