Check Out P.S. I Love You (Sealed With A Kiss #4) Written By Valerie Parv Distributed In Electronic Text

Mr. Branden,
I'm sure you receive thousands of letters, but this one is different, so please please read on, . .

How Penny wished her young niece had never written that desperate plea! For, with a cruel twist of fate, it brought Reid Branden back into her life.
. . Years ago, the loss of his love, his trust had bruised her tender heart, but the memory of his kisses still lingered, Confronted with his powerful charisma a second time, could Penny hold on to the lessons of the past

The blurb is the best part of the book.
Weird and badly written the narrative blocks needed to be structured differently, this romance isn't worth anyone's time, . . which makes me wish I could provide a more thorough recap, to spare anyone a tingle of needing to read the book, but there's too much business I'm not interested in the heroine's home, the niece's musical aspirations to bother.


The hero is a movie star handsome, rock star popular clarinetist and composer just go with it, who has mostly given up performing to run his mini music empire that popularizes classical music.
Because sure.

He and the heroine met five years ago when his business empire was in its early stage, She was a copywriter from the ad agency his firm had hired, He was instantly smitten and the two began a romance unhindered by the presence of the hero's incredibly clever and competent personal assistant, who was also in love with the hero.


The protagonists were in love and possibly on the verge of an engagement when the heroine and the assistant get in a drunkdriving accident returning to their hotel one night after a reception.
They plowed the hero's car into a wall, no other vehicles or people were involved, The hero, who had left the reception shortly after them, is the first upon the scene and he takes them both for a medical exam from his personal physician and never reports the incident to the police.


The heroine, who suffered a small concussion and has no memory of the events leading up to the accident, needs the hero to believe her when she says that she wasn't driving drunk.
Which the hero finds impossible to accept because she had been drinking at the party and he found her behind the wheel of the damaged vehicle.
But he's willing to forgive her,

The heroine doesn't want forgiveness, She wants trust. She knows that the hero despises drunk drivers because a drunk driver killed his parents when he was, and she doesn't want a lifetime of the hero pulling this reckless incident out of his back pocket every time they get into an argument.
You see, the heroine's father had one little incident of infidelity in his marriage, and even though the heroine's mother supposedly forgave him, she rehashed his adultery every time they had an argument.
Um, heroine, you're kind of on the wrong side of that argument,

She doesn't want a relationship like her parents, so she breaks up with the hero and goes to London, The hero goes to Los Angeles to set up a second branch of his music company, taking the personal assistant with him,

The story opens with the hero back in Australia with the same PA, who he knows is in love with him and feels a strange pity for receiving a letter from a teenaged girl asking him to participate in her school's mentorship program.
She's a budding a clarinetist and a huge fan, who particularly enjoys his Andretti Concerto, gasp He only played that composition once, putting it on a demo tape and gifting it to the heroine the night before the accident.
How had this kid heard it

Fortunately, the address on the envelope is the girl's home, some dilapidated stately manse she's currently sharing with her aunt the heroine while her parents are out of the country.


The hero instantly decides this house will be his new home, though the heroine has no interest in selling, She and her sister each inherited half of the family home, and the heroine is hoping to buy out her sister's half some day.
The hero pressures her into renting one wing to him in exchange for mentoring her niece, and proceeds to invest a heck of a lot of money into restoring the home, which the heroine quickly realizes will drive the assessment price up, making it impossible for her to afford her sister's half ever.
He is quite deliberately doing this in order to get the house for himself, Jerk.

The assistant, jealous the hero is living in the heroine's for now home with the heroine, arranges for a paparazzo to sneak in and snap pictures of the womanizing hero with theyearold niece in order to create a scandal.
I'm honestly not sure if the scandal was supposed to be that the niece's hoity toity school wouldn't want to be associated with a performer of the hero's playboy reputation or if he was supposed to be smeared with accusations of pedophilia.
The first seems ridiculously thin surely the niece would have had to tell her teachers who she was reaching out to as a mentor but the latter seems absolutely NUCLEAR and likely to destroy the hero's reputation and career even if he immediately cut ties with the girl and her family.


The hero responds to the scandal by proposing a fake engagement to the heroine to distract the media and redirect the story.
The pair continue to argue about the drunk driving incident and the PA continues to drip poison in the heroine's ear about her relationship with the hero.
This heroine doesn't shy away from confrontation, however, and the two have a verbal scuffle in which the PA reveals intimate knowledge of the hero's body and the heroine lies that she and the hero know the PA was responsible for the sleazy photographer.
The PA responds by resigning and placing the blame on the heroine, telling her she expects the hero will come after her because they go back a long way and they're in the midst of putting together an awards show.


When the hero confronts the heroine, she argues her response was proportional to the PA's claim that she was still sleeping with the hero.
The hero tells her that he hasn't slept with the assistant since they announced their fake engagement,

The protagonists have sex, attend the awards show where the exPA shows up to drip more poison in the heroine's ear, argue endlessly about trust, and then the niece runs away when she learns her parents may be on the verge of divorce.
Very busy side plots, I'm telling you,

Thinking the teenager might have run to her mentor, the heroine goes the the hero's officeapartment, where she discovers the exPA with the shirtless hero.
. . thisminutes of tension is oddly popped by the PA recommending that the hero use lemon juice to get the stain out, and the hero telling the heroine he got printer ink on his shirt.
Anyway, we don't have time for jealousy, We need to find the teenager, who the hero assures the heroine will be at her school's music studio, playing her heart out because that's how musicians deal with pain.


They do indeed find her there, and as they walk out, the teenager is nearly plowed down in a pedestrian crossing by a speeding truck the author misses an opportunity by NOT making the truck driver drunk.
She's saved by the hero, who suffers a dislocated shoulder oh, no! will he ever play the clarinet again, The teenager's parents pick her up, leaving the protagonists to make their way home in his car, He's in too much pain to drive the manual transmission, so he asks the heroine to drive, but oh, no! She doesn't know how to drive a stick shift incidentally, neither does your reviewer.


This news brings great joy to the hero, who reveals after they're returned home via taxi that the car the night of the drunk driving incident was also a manual transmission.
All his cars are. The heroine couldn't have been driving! The evil PA must have switched places with her and feigned unconsciousness, Now they can get married because the heroine doesn't have to worry about the hero holding the accident against her for their rest of their lives.
Everything is resolved and love means never having to say you're sorry, No, I swear, the book goes there,

And the PA gets away scotfree because the heroine doesn't want the past raked up again,

Look. The issue was trust. The heroine needed the hero to trust that she wasn't driving the night of the accident, She also needed to trust that the hero could forgive her not for this specific incident, but we all need forgiveness at times and not dredge up old resentments if they married.
But the resolution is proof, They are cleared to marry because the accident wasn't her fault and therefore can't come between them in the future, The conclusion doesn't fit the conflict,

I, of course, remain confused about the hero's relationship with the PA, Although he knew she was in love with him "He'd even tried to feel as she did but nothing came, Tonia Rigg was as devoted to him as any wife, It was a damned shame that, try as he might, he couldn't see her in the role, ", it never occurred to me that he had actually slept with her even after she taunted the heroine with knowledge of the birthmark on his hip until the hero confirmed that they weren't sleeping together NOW.
Keeping a former lover who is pining for love of you hanging around as an employee is just

toxic, Or the start of a completely different romance novel, .

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