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was a sweet romance! This book is part of abook series and revisits the couple from the first book sitelinkSome Sort of Spell.
I have now readof thebooks with a huge gap inbetween and definitely not in order, so you can definitely read this as a stand alone.





Heroine: Rosyalmostyear old virgin who is very sensitive about that, She lived a very sheltered life and when she attempted one love affair, the male in question scoffed at her inexperience.
She has decided that her lot in life will not include love and she puts the shields up, She happens upon a long lost relative andnd cousin Elliott, H from ssos and his very pregnant wife Beaheroine from ssos who take her in.
Everyone is happy with this arrangement, except for MirryBeas interfering sister who thinks Rosy may have inadvertently fallen in love with Elliott.
She speaks with her brother William about her suspicions and how it is causing problems in their sisters marriage.
Rosy overhears them talking and is devastated that they would think this about her, She accepts Williams invitation to go stay with him at university and “meet” men, Elliot encourages this and she thinks he must also believe that she is in love with him, Elliott, actually is sad to see that this young girl is not really living and wants her to experience life However, her ultimate plan is to return back home to her lonely life.
While at the university, William takes Rosy to a party, It is here she meets wheelchair bound Callum,

Hero: Callum, mids professor of economics, Callum in his current state, is like Steve RogersChris Evans version, before he took the super serum!



While in Africa, he was shot and contracted an illness.
He is lucky to be alive, He is able to walk, and he is on the mend, His current state of illness is temporary,

Like a sexy girl hiding behind big glasses, he is full of possibilities,



Rosy meets him in his current state, and finds that he is no threat, She is not attracted to him and he doesnt give off any sexuality at all, He can tell she is down about something and encourages her to open up to him, She tells him her sad story of woe, and he offers her a job helping him with his book.
She accepts.

The story continues and she goes to work for him, They get along great. They have intelligent conversations and an easy going relationship not mired down with sex, She believes that Callum intentionally lives a life of celibacy, when in actuality he just isnt a manwhore, Plus, he is scarred and has been sickly, so his confidence as a man is a little shaken at the moment.
Then Elliott and Bea decide they need to visit Rosy after learning about her job with the professor, Rosy doesnt want Elliott to think she is in love with him, so Callum suggests that they pretend to be loversoh really, and that she move in with him.
He has the room, and it would be nice to have a secretary at his beck and call,


We have now entered the title of our book: Gentle Deception, The question is what is the Gentle Deception Is it Rosy and Callum doing the deception against Elliott and Bea Or is there a Gentle Deception going on between Rosy and Callum

As a reader, we get very little of Callums point of view.
However, there is actually some in the book, We see enough to know that he is definitely not immune to Rosy, Of course living together brings them closer together, Before these two can finally commit to an HEA, there is some angst near the end, The angst comes from lack of communication after they succumb to their passion, Was this just an aberration or was this a love connection

Of course, it is a romance so all ends well.


One thing I like about this story, is that there is a lot of communication, The couple really do not keep secrets from each other until the end when they are not sure if their love is going to be returned.
Even Elliott finds out the truth about Rosy leaving and lets just say that he will be having some words with both Mirry and William about their unwarranted meddling.
This actually makes me want to reread SSOS, because Elliott is such a good guy,

If you are looking for low drama this is a good one to read, Sorry but I wasnt impressed, This rated high in my friends list and was apparently a work place setting so I had to try it out.
Id say it was an instalust of the eighties,

Rosy the h has no relatives and once she finds out of some distant cousins and tries to connect with them, shes accused to be a husbandsnatcher.
Whatever the case Rosy wasnt a total bed of roses, She was dowdy while being a beautiful blonde and gauche and Id say a bit of a loony,

She keeps making all the wrong choices between A and B throughout the book, Rosy spends a suspicious amount of time with her male cousin, I fail to see what a young charismatic and good looking man, who was a newly discovered relative to Rosy could offer that had her hanging on to his every word.
This cousin is married and his wife is pregnant and Rosy shouldve known better than to cross boundaries and stick to this womans husband all the time.


So Rosy doesnt have any evil intentions but then why was she outspending her time with this man then.
What good could he bring, He wasnt old enough to be a brother or a father figure and at one point also suspected that she had a growing crush on him.


This is just the beginning, Rosy may be a little over shelf life with her aging vcard but it didnt take much for her to lose it later in the book.
I didnt agree with her life choices, .

Also have to say the writer totally got carried away and lost herself in very distasteful and vivid descriptions of the Hs physical incapacitation.
There were hours and hours of how weak and frail and bony this man was that it was rather hard for me to see him beyond his apparent ugliness.


If I were in Rosys shoes I mightve felt a bit of a cringe attack to be forced to be partnered up with such an.
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Rosy has no control of her verbal dysentery, She says to the H the kind of stuff she shouldnt have, Cringe and cringe. Finally theres an HEA where the H is still very skin and bones and scars, The h has in this while accepted all this as love and they live a happy life together,

Eye roll. Awful. I despise both the main characters, and the secondary ones too, As I started reading sitelinkGentle Deception, it didnt occur to me that this was part of a series.
Actually, the fourth story out of four, It would have helped my initial confusion with the first three chapters if I had read, at the very least, sitelinkSome Sort of Spell.


Rosy Seaton was on an extended visit with her once or twiceremoved cousin Elliott and his wife, Bea.
I soon figured out that these were the main characters from the first story, Words behind doors were overheard by the sensitive Rosy and she felt an urgent need to live elsewhere, She told everyone that she was going to take up Williams Beas youngest brother offer and live with his roommates and him until she could make a permanent decision.
Elliott was leery

and Bea was crushed,

Before long, Rosy met the reserved professor Callum Blake in a wheelchair, The education professional had researched economics in Africa and was injured in addition to catching a disease, It was touch and go for a while,

When Rosy introduced herself she was unaware how popular Callum was on campus or that many women had tried to pursue him.
He suffered from continual pain and had lost quite a bit of weight, He looked nothing like his former self, He offered her a job as his assistant, Rosy accepted.

I thoroughly enjoyed the first half of GD with awkward moments and shyness by both Rosy and Callum.
Ms. Roding did a good job having the reader take notice that Callum secretly wanted to keep Rosy with him.
Beas younger brother keeps checking on them, ready to act as the white knight, Then there is a proposal of a marriage of convenience, The second half had a few of the clichés that put a damper on Harlequins and Silhouettes lack of communication that prod minor misunderstandings.
Because of this I am giving the romance ,stars.
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