Veena’s review of 10 Ways to Handle The Best Man by Heidi Rice
Contemporary Romance published by Cosmo Red Hot Reads 14 Jan 14
She’s an innocent. He’s a Dominant. She’s good and gorgeous. He’s sinfully handsome and bad – the best ones always are. So this story is a foregone conclusion from the opening page, and reciting all the rules isn’t going to change even one iota of the outcome.
The entire story is told in the form of 10 rules for a matron of honor to follow in order to manage her duties, especially when it comes to the best man. Each one is very tongue in cheek and suggestive to the extreme.
I recently read somewhere that one doesn’t need to have had a troubled past for a person to develop into a Dominant or submissive. Regardless, Connor McCoy had a pretty rough childhood and nearly as rough adulthood. Fortunately he’s been able to put it all behind him and is now wealthy and successful. He agrees to be best man at his brother’s wedding, determined to deal with the family and be on his way.
Sabrina is a fiend for managing all the little details. She’s totally thrown off kilter when the bride, her BFF, tells her that she engineered Connor as the best man, especially for Sabrina to end her one-year-plus hiatus on sex. But even she couldn’t have imagined the goings on beneath the table cloth at the rehearsal dinner. Is Sabrina going to catch the bouquet and graduate from matron of honor to bride?
Grade: B
Summary:
The maid of honor’s to-do list for handling the best man:
#1 Charm him.
#2 Find out everything about him from friends and family.
#3 Size definitely matters: especially when it comes to the ego. Tread carefully if he has a big one….Sabrina Millard has a plan and a list for everything, including her role as maid of honor at her BFF’s wedding. The best man is a whole different matter. She knows Connor McCoy is trouble—she once had a disastrous encounter with him years ago. Now that he’s supersexy and supersuccessful, it’s even worse. Especially as he’s just proved who’s in charge by shattering her legendary control…under the table at the rehearsal dinner!
Connor’s having fun seducing prim Sabrina. Which is so wrong—she’s the ultimate good girl, while his past is…complicated. Only Sabrina has him breaking all his own rules….
