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loved Luke. He fell for Gemma when he was barelyand she was, He was a migrant worker who was working in her area building a road but he had aspirations of becoming more.
He wanted to learn the construction business so Gemma borrowed her fathers books and library book for him to study.
She even got him a book in etiquette! That was sooooo sweet,

They hung out together as friends until Gemma got a crush on her brothers friend and ask Luke to teach her how to kiss.
Broke poor Lukes heart. But he did it. He kissed the hell out of her, Sadly, this caused
A rift in their relationship resulting in Luke staying away from Gemma,

Ten years later, Gemma brother is getting married and Gemma learns that one of her fathers business associates attending the wedding is called Luke ORourke.
Turns out to

be her Luke from all those years ago,

Poor Luke went through years of torment wanting Gemma and when he finally got the chance to get her, he took it with both hands.
I loved how sensitive he was toyear old Gemma, He didnt take advantage of a situation that would have destroyed her, He was sweet and tender and woke her to what could be between a man and a woman, Gemma never found a man that could measure up to her Luke andyears later, when they finally got together, they found their HEA.


hmmmmm . I know I read this one before, I have had a bunch of reviews disappear,

.stars. It was obvious the hero was smitten to everyone but, the heroine, frankly, i did not feel the connection between luke and gemma, at best, it seemed like lukewarm emotions dat they shared! he knew her as a teenager and afteryears he was still in love wid the image of the teenager he had carried! as for gemma, she got on my nerves! poor little rich heroine! yeah, we're expected to sympathise wid her because she's rich and awkward! she does not want to follow her parents' footsteps or the other rich kinda people.
I liked the background story in this, of them spending secret time together when young then finding each other again.
Lovely and finally a storyline that I could actually see happening, I do wish he'd kept his Irish accent though, for selfish reasons, Leído el She asked him for lessons on how to kiss and I loved that but after finding that bitch Samantha with him I would have left his ass and gone home.
He did have sex with her while she remains a virgin then she throws herself at him, I hated that but the sex was hot and it was a good story at the beginning just finished wrong somehow.
Gemma comes from very rich snobby parents, When at fifteen she meets and befriends laborer Luke O'Rourke she feels a connection with him but she is too young to realize it's love.
She rejects him as socially inferior and he goes away,

Now, ten years later, Luke is back as a wealthy, new business associate of her father's, He offers Gemma a job as personal assistant and she accepts, Soon she realizes her love for Luke is stronger than ever but will she ever convince him she sees him as her equal

Another fantastic book by my favorite author.
I loved the friendship Gemma and Luke shared, heroine's vulnerability and hero's traumatic past which made him feel worthless of Gemma! Re An Expert Teacher PJ does the big misunderstanding and H piney moments for ten long years but sadly this H does go out to sample the lurvely lady buffet which is probably a good thing, so at least one of them has some experience.


The h in this one is ayr old school teacher who comes from a wealthy, but socially snobbish family.
If this were a regency, the h's family would be social climbing Cits and the h would be the practical daughter who is more interested in saving orphans and building proper teaching orphanages.
Plus, she would reject the titled heir her family contracts for her in favor of the self made shipping merchant, whom her family thoroughly disapproves of.


This is a bit more modern, but not by much PJ just added some really spicy nocturnal activity moments.
The h and H first meet when she isand he, She spends a lot of time by herself ambling around on her sturdy pony and has taken to hanging out by the river with a book and watching the otters.
One day water starts dripping on her, when she looks up, the very handsome Irish H is commenting on her book.
She finds out that the H is an itinerant Irish labourer working on the nearby road construction who likes to swim daily in the river.
He was an orphan and raised in care, but he has a fierce intelligence and the h soon strikes up a friendship with him.


Since her father is a builder, she smuggles out a bunch of book on construction and business things for the H to educate himself on the construction industry, the H is very grateful to her for her faith and encouragement that he can be a successful business person.
The h figures out her true vocation of being a teacher as she tries to help the H learn the proper etiquette for all manner of situations and the summer friendship blossoms as they have plenty of mutual interests.


The H is really the h's only friend, she and her mother are polar opposites and her father only wants a charming clothes horse in the petite blonde and stupid style to show off like a trophy.
The h isn't petite, blonde or stupid so she figures she doesn't qualify,

The h spends a lot of time contemplating how snobbish and socially elitist her parents are in this one.
Too bad PJ h's are always so nice, cause a ton of fun can be had thinking up sarcastic responses to the h's mothers utterances and the h could have had a much more enjoyable life if she had just made some cryptic rebuttal to her mother's inanity and then laughed when it went right over the woman's head.
Sadly not of enough of that happens during the story, so the h is left to just rage at the injustices of the world and her parent's limited mindset.


So the h isand her brother, who is all things her parents want in a son and heir and as limited in his outlook, brings home a friend for the holidays.
The h has her first little crush and she asks the H to teach her how to kiss, cause ya know, a boy might want to do that and she is clueless.


The kiss gets wild pretty fast, cause of course lighting strikes them both, but the H gets really mean and tells the h that she needs a warning tag as jailbait in training for tarthood.
The h is hurt and hysterical and tells the H their friendship is over, She jumps on her little pony and trots off,

The H tries to approach her later at a local dance she is attending with her brother and his friend, she was hoping it was a date, but it wasn't and the h is still hurt over him calling her a tartintraining and hurt that her brother's friend is ignoring her too.
She tells the H that she is surprised that the dance holders are allowing road workers into the dance when they are banned so many other places, and manages to sound very like her mother as she does it.
The H leaves and the h gets her head out of her misery and goes after him, she means to apologize for her lashing out, but she never sees the H for the rest of the summer and the road crew moves on.


Ten years on, the h is teaching in a low income area and her head principle has to cut staff and wants the h to resign because "she has wealthy parents who can support her".
The h, who srsly thinks having wealthy parents means that she should give up her job, knows she has to resign but she also needs a new job she doesn't want the ties and bondage that come with her parents money.


The h's brother is getting married to the familyapproved airhead petite blonde, and the h wryly thinks that her mother will get far more mileage out of her daughter in law, as her daughter certainly hasn't given any value.


At the wedding, the mother pairs the h up with the H, He is invited cause he is now a huge construction builder, bigger than the h's father, and the father wants in on the H's Caribbean resort.
The h and H meet again and there is some verbal sparing, but the h finally gets the opportunity to sincerely apologize for the things she said at their last parting.


The H pushes it aside and tells her that her faith in him drove him to success.
Then, after hearing her sad tale of teaching woe, the H offers a two month job on his new Caribbean construction project.
The H wants to offer classes to his native workers who can't afford an education any other way and the h can organize it.
The h's family has a cow, because as the h's mother puts it, "He is a notorious womanizer and not 'our' sort of people," but the h accepts and underlying this acceptance is that old lighting struck attraction.



So it is off to the Caribbean we go, The h is staring to stress over her still virginal status and have a lot of jealousy when the local society bombshell drapes herself all over the H as they are getting off the plane.
There is the usual PJ h waffling over giving into sin with a man who only wants a bit of fun or to run away and protect her fragile heart.


After a bout of sun stroke, with no H sponging I am sorry to say, the h and H wind up in a compromising position and of course it is the best ever.
Even for the H, who is in rather a better position to know about these types of evaluations, There is one more discarded play by the wanna be OW and a bit more back and forth in the usual PJ style before the H admits that he has been in love with the h for ten years and now that he has had her, he is never letting her go.


The h is of course wildly in love back and they marry on the island and send the h's parents a note.
The mother is displeased that the h has married down and in ignominy in her POV and the h's father has just given up on the h ever coming round to the family values for the big HEA.


This one is okay, It is very PJ tropey, so you know there is a lot of inner waffling and you know everybody is madly in love and hiding it by chapter two.
The H was fairly nice for a PJ H who isn't beta and this h is rather less neurotic than most she even decided that if all she could get was an affair with the H she would take it and fling her bonnet over the windmill with joy.
Of course the H isn't having that, he has been waiting patiently for years to work the h out of his system and since once is never enough and a million times more is even better, he decides only the most stringent bonds of marriage are going to make him happy and now that she is in his bed, he will just keep her there.


In the end this one is cute and the HEA is believable, but there isn't really anything major going on either, so keep this one for the days when you just need a little HPlandia trip with some mild angst and drama and PJ kind of HEA.
An underdog love story where true love trumps all, including class differences,

some spoilers

Luke is the underdog here, or at least he thinks he is when it comes to Gemma.
He does rise above his poor beginnings to become a selfmade entrepreneur, but as successful as he's become he's never won the heart of the girl he's secretly loved and whom he befriended when she was a teenager and he was about.
Their shortlived, unlikely friendship ended abruptly due to a misunderstanding which left Luke feeling rejected and Gemma feeling regretfuland too young to realize her feelings were actually love.


We know they eventually find happiness together, but the fun is in seeing how the barriers between these two are torn down so they can finally see each other for who they really are and not what they are on the surface, socialite and bluecollar laborer.
Gemma never seemed spoiled or snotty to me, The real snobs were her parents,

In present day, Luke incorrectly believes Gemma still thinks he's inferior to her and that she is using him for personal gain.
So what is a selfrespecting HP hero to do Pump and dump his love in the name of closure of course! What Luke doesn't plan on is Gemma finally realizing her true feelings and seducing him, thereby paving the way for declarations of true love.
So the seducer becomes the seduced, with each ending up with their "expert teacher",

P. S.
The story starts out a little slow because the true oneonone interaction between Luke and Gemma doesn't happen until they are in the Caribbean, but the very satisfying last chapter made the slow burn worth it.
Good fast read. Also has the dubious distinction of being the only HP that I've come across to feature a h who gets so engrossed in a book that she pretty much ignores the H's presence.


The H Luke and the h Gemma meet as teenagers and become fast friends, h has a crush on her brother's friend and fails to recognise her true feelings for the H but a single kiss requested for by her changes all that.
By the time she realises what's happening, she's managed to insult the H in the worst way possible and he leaves without so much as a forwarding address.
So she spends the next ten years becoming a career woman she's a teacher and is uninterested in marriage/sex much to the consternation of her socially forward parents.


A decade later, she meets him again at her parents' home and sparks fly for real this time especially since the H is no longer theyear old low class labourer she had met and is instead, a seductive millionaire with a heart wrenching back story.
Unfortunately, all that money hadn't made him more acceptable to her folks who stress the importance of the 'right connections' and so as a final act of defiance, she goes against their wishes and their very real fears that their daughter might be seduced by the low class lothario and accepts the H's token job offer in the Caribbean.
Of course, consummation of their unspoken love follows almost immediately and soon the couples' on their way to HEA but not before the H accuses the h of being like her parents and rejecting him because of his less than desirable background many times.


I liked this book and I really liked the h, She is a poor little princess with a conscience and chooses to teach kids from socially challenged backgrounds instead of privileged children like herself.
This is also an act of rebellion against her parents who expect her to be a society lady who's only ambition is to become an MampB version of a Stepford wife.
She even refuses to be a bridesmaid at her brother's wedding to further drive the point home, But when she's home though, she's more passive aggressive and deals with her parents by tuning them out as in she literally drifts off during conversations.
Now this I liked. Coz this is a tactic that I use tuning people out when I don't want to listen and so I was quite able to relate to her.
The H was also pretty ok, but PJ could have turned down his insecurities a notch to make him sound less whiny.


So it's not a bad read at all and I think most people might like this one.
.stars!.