Item: Courting Catherine
Rating: 4.00
Author: ibeforem

by Nora Roberts

Headstrong Catherine Calhoun wasn't going to let anyone take away the Towers, especially not ruthless hotel magnate Trenton St James.

Catherine "C.C." Calhoun is determined to keep her family's estate, known affectionately as the Towers, in the family. She admits the cost of keeping up the crumbling mansion might be quickly exceeding what C.C., her sisters and her aunt can afford, but the only way to save the house can't be to sell it. Especially not to arrogant and handsome hotel magnate Trenton St James III.

Trent doesn't believe in mixing business with pleasure, especially with a woman who expects - and deserves - true love and marriage. Trent has little faith in either. And yet, C.C.'s passion and purpose begin to change his mind about the Towers . . . and about love. But can he have one without sacrificing the other?

This is a first-time regular print hardcover edition of a title previously available as a mass market paperback.

This was one of NR’s Harlequin Silhouette series, so it’s pretty much straight romance. There is a thread of a mystery which is carried through the entire series… What happened to make Bianca (their great-grandmother) kill herself, and where is her famous emerald necklace?… but really the focus of this novel is the relationship between C.C. and Trent. The one thing NR always does so well is create characters that feel so real, they could walk in your front door at any moment. Here she hasn’t created just one character, but an entire family where each person is different than the last. The "four sisters who all have different colored hair and distinctly different personalities" thing is a little clichéd, but it doesn’t take away from the grand romance. I’m already into the third book in this series, and I don’t expect to stop until I’m finished.

Courting Catherine (Calhoun Women, #1) (Silhouette Desire S.)

by Nora Roberts

Reviewed by ibeforem on Jul 21, 2009

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