Rumbles Of A Book Dragon

  This is a new author to me---at least, I don't think I've read Caitlin Crews.  If I have, I haven't kept any of the prior books of hers that I read because they just didn't wow me.  This one however, spoke to me. Characters: Geraldine Casey, Lionel Asensio (with guest appearances by their family) Premise: In order to please his grandmother, man impulsively marries a woman who crashed his wedding after his intended bride is carted off. People, I did not expect this story to begin by the intended bride being carted off ala King Kong and Fay Wray, but that happened and our male lead, Lionel Asensio, turned to wedding crasher Geraldine Casey, dragged her up to the altar, and married her before she could even say "How do you do?", which, Sir!  No!  No!  That is not how any of that is supposed to go at all!  But anyways, after that's accomplished, Lionel tries to tell Geraldine what he expects from her only to have her make her own demands: take a paterni...

  So, obviously, I came back to the romance genre.  I swear, I do read other genres.  This is a brand-new author to me, Jennifer Hayward, and I'll admit, I've always been a sucker for an Italian protagonist. Characters: Jensen Davis, Cristiano Vitale. Premise: A man looking to rebrand his grandfather's fashion house and bring it into the twenty-first century takes a gamble on a model who has a reputation for partying. It's the classic story, man inherits a business from a much-loved relative and wants to make it relative to the present while honoring their legacy and takes a gamble on a maverick employee, resulting in them falling for one another.  This time, it's Cristiano Vitale wanting to make a name for himself while honoring his grandfather who raised him after the death of his parents and in his mind, this includes being very on top of things, dedicating all of his time to the work, and not really making time for a social life.  Which, yeah okay, admirable...