Why doesn't she have her own money to invest in repairs on the house? Doesn't her father pay her to work for him?
359709
I'm enjoying the book. However, it doesn't make any sense that a woman in her thirties as skilled as the heroine is still totally reliant on her father's money.
4384408
The story of how the family fortune was built is more interesting than the daughter's story.  A very interesting saga that is still not resolved.  A good read
4764749
The best laid plans often fail, just as they do for Levi and Montana. When you work your way to the top and have everything you ever wanted you're happy right? Well not always. Even the rich will tell you that money doesn't always buy happiness. For her it was always about working hard and forgetting her past. For him he just wanted a no chains friends with benefits arrangement. But when they catch a case of feelings their arrangement changes.
3737728
Given to me for an honest review. It is a nice story, but it is somewhat predicable. Lindsay owns a renovation business. Jared is a writer and has moved to a small town so it will be easier to write without distractions. They first meet when both of them grab the last fresh loaf of bread. He removes his hand from the bread and walks off. It seems he bought the house next door to Lindsay's. She's been busy with her business and didn't realize that the house had been sold.  She still doesn't know that Jared is a very successful author. When they meet to discuss redoing the kitchen and bath, Lindsay thinks he doesn't  have much money but she thinks differently when he gives her an envelope with $5000 in it. Since this is a romance, you know they will have a happily ever after. But they will have several things to overcome before the end of the story.
4634042
As is usually the case in dysfunctional families, many members could/should have done things differently.

Melissa came out of this more a whole person than might be expected.  She used to her advantage a combination of hard work, determination and intelligence. Good for her.

While she guesses before anyone else, that her sister is bipolar, one wonders why no one considered her mother was mentally ill.  One also wonders quite a lot about the strange amount of passivity in this family.  The mother held everyone under control with her anger and manipulations and lies.  The father let his wife walk all over him and the daughters.  Even Melissa let money issues slide. There are laws to protect child actors, and once they had been to court and had her emancipated, her mother had NO right to take her money out of HER account!  Either Melissa is a minor or she is not, and the court declared she was not. Why did she not DO something about this?  Why did no one do something about all the money her mother siphoned off her?

Why on EARTH did her father just let her take all their money?  Why did he not make SURE he was divorced from her financially?  She is clearly dangerous.

Occasionally Melissa's perspective is SO far from the norm, due to her mother's HUGE need to spend as if she was extremely rich and lavish material items upon them.  Melissa did not have a normal childhood, and her ideas about money read as amazingly ignorant or amazingly spoiled. Her education would indicate ignorance is not the case.  The noises about the BMW convertible as a teenage birthday present are an excellent example.

With these sorts of genes running in this family, having children might be something to be very concerned about.
3719463
I am ashamed that this woman never held her father accountable for his actions. Her weakness in her situation is unbelievable.
3761764
She is another man's wife!  To make matters worse, the man is a friend and fellow soldier. With the premonition that he won't survive he gives a miniature of his wife with the request to send his remains to his wife Major Lord Asterly be there for her and protect her from her in-laws. She is an heiress, filthy rich, and mourns the husband she never got to know, with parents both dead she is alone!  Hiding behind his work for the government he suggests they marry because her country needed her. She, because of her own personal attraction to Peregrine agree. With both of them having insecurities, he because he feels like he suffers when, compared with his brother Handsome Harry, she because of her discomfort in love aristocratic society, their union has a rocky start!
4443482
Trinket had absolutely no trouble staying out of trouble for most of her life but since she's moved back home it all just seems to be tearing down her door. Of course, she'll readily admit that most of it centers around her cousin, Bitty.

Bitty knows no such thing. It's not her fault that she's being accused of murder, for the second time in less than a year. Nor was it Bitty's fault, that the corpse was shot at the funeral. Oh, and the food fight at the Diva meeting? Well, that just wasn't how it seemed...

Ugh, Trinket has her work cut out for her this time... Maybe she should find a hobby or a job so she's not quite so available when Bitty wants to investigate.
3026401
This chick is a GOLD DIGGER...At first I was on Annabelle side with finding a husband due to the dire situation her and her family are in...I know that's what they did back then. But damn, her mama is selling herself to a disgusting old man for money and then basically pushing Annabelle to semi do the same. Annabelle had the nerve to lift her nose up at Simon when this man worked hard for his success and "money" (mind you) and here she is with her broke azz thinking he isn't good enough...and then finally when HE compromised her, here her mama up in his face talking about MONEY MONEY MONEY and here Annabelle is telling him what she wants and where she wants to live etc...I'm like you gold digging wench no wonder why Westcliff didn't like her. I didn't like this story at all.
1496000
Malin has a mom who abandoned her.  He dad starts drinking cause he mom finally dead.  And when she finds out she has a sister that her mom wanted her to take care of  she not ready to be a mom she always taking care of people.  When Noah and Gunner go for her she not sure who to pick.  She finally decides who to pick and learns she might loose her sister.  What will she be willing to do to keep her?  When she finds out her dad problems might not help.  She worred till the lawyer calls with the news!
550789
ellie is being treated as treated like an outcast by her family, which is only her 2 cousin's as her parents are both dead, as punishment for nothing her cousin sends her to do work for a widowed man with two young sons.... to get them both out of bad situations they marry, this does not come with heartache and complications......a true mother and wife is all she's wanted..she needs her new husband to let go of the past and see her in her own light
225513
I know it's all about a kick ass mechanic but at the same time..... she let everything go pretty easy.  My childhood love takes my virginity and then runs off and marries his ex.  Yeah, I'd make him work a hell of a lot harder than she did.  Why is she dubbed the one with commitment issues when he's the one with the actual issues.....just saying.
4425943
What happens when the matriarch of the family dies and the future of the family fortune either maintained or lost all on the daughter in the family getting married by the time two years have passed.  Not only that but none of her brothers nor her dad can get married until she does.  In the case of this book, it's the next two years spent trying to marry the daughter off and she doing everything she can to sabotage each and every potential relationship.  Which is where Pendleton comes in as he's the latest hire at the family's company and as there is only a couple months to the deadline the family's last hope to hold on to the company and the fortune/lifestyle that comes with it?  It was revenge for all of the years of Holt and his son's chasing off any potential boyfriend Kit has ever had and I think also an attempt to pave the way for her daughter to be able to get married without any interference.  She's never had a relationship last for any significant amount of time, except for one relationship where she made it all the way to the night before the wedding, when her fiancee was paid a quarter of a million dollars not to marry her.
  Pendleton is dismayed to find out one of his very first assignments on starting to work at the company is tracking the spoiled Kit down.  Kit at times over the course of the story is not always easy to like as she comes across as pretty spoiled and handles some things in a pretty childish way.  But as you get to know the girl's father over the course of the story I really felt sympathetic for her as her father doesn't seem to think much of her and it's pretty apparent that it's not just about her behavior over the course of the last two years as it feels like he's never thought much of her.  Somewhere along the way that attitude was passed along to Kit's brothers to a certain extent as well.
  Does Kit let the deadline come and go and sacrifice the family fortune?  Does she deserve to have that kind of power over her father and brothers?  Does Pendleton keep his job and to what extent does he find out the main reason he was hired?  What does he do with this information?  Is Kit able to believe in love or does she continue to let her father's influence her opinions and beliefs about love and relationships?  To what extent is Pendleton's job future tied into getting the boss's daughter to marry him and what does he do with it in the end?
  I ended up really liking this book thanks to the set up at the beginning of the book and really wanted to know how everything would turn out.  And over the course of the book there were a few times I wished something would happen to Holt Sr. as he was a pretty despicable in how he treated and thought of his daughter.  Which meant that even though Kit had her faults deep down I was really rooting for her over the course of the story and I was pretty satisfied with how everything turned out.
3057907
In this case - yes. Old stone barn is converted to a house thanks to the generosity of a smitten landlord. Refreshingly the girl does not immediately fall for the knight in shining armour but is more interested in teaching him how much Jesus loves him. She does a little brave sleuthing that saves a company a lot of money, and national trade secrets as well.
3592170
Franny has all she needs except a loving family. Orphaned at a very young age, Franny was raised by her Grandparents. Their deaths created selfishness in her family over her inheritance. Her best friend was the son of family servants which was not tolerated in the late 1800's. Another big surprise caused her to turn to the only one she could trust, Her Heavenly Father.
2990155
I did not like the female at all.  She had no aim in life and didn't work because she was rich.  How come she didn't start her own business to make jobs for others or write or paint or something???  Just had no respect or liking for her, neither characters had much to be likable(sp?).
552489
Lifetime friends searching for how to deal with growing up. When her father dies she comes up with a plan to receive her inheritance. Follow along as life keeps getting in the way of the plan.