Changing The Rules
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3.0 • 1 Rating
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
From African-American fiction staple Niqui Stanhope comes Changing the Rules, a romance where when it comes to love, there are no rules…
Marcel Templeton is determined never to fall for Mr. Wrong again. And no man is going to sweep her off her feet without meeting a few requirements first...Even if that means changing the rules of the dating game. Then the oh-so-fine Ian Michaels saunters into her life and threatens to ruin all her carefully laid plans...
Owner of a wildly successful multi media corporation, Ian Michaels has met a lot of ladies-- but none have gotten under his skin quite like Marcel. The minute she comes crashing into his life, she starts firing away the "rules" that any man she dates must follow. But Ian thinks he knows what Marcel really needs-- someone to rock her world. And he's just the man to do it!
It's obvious to Marcel that the man has "player" written all over him, but the feelings he evokes in her are oh-so-sweet and she can't quite remember why she's fighting so hard. And it's not long before she may have to admit that the passion that flares between them, may just be the reason they belong together...
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When Marcel Templeton's boyfriend breaks up with her instead of proposing marriage, she and her friend Tracy sit down to reassess her dating game plan. The new "rules" they devise, which include "must not be a player" and "no good-looking men," aren't exactly ambitious, yet the first new man Marcel meets violates both of the above. Or, so she thinks. Hunky Ian Michaels meets Marcel in a fender bender and immediately asks her out, making her assume that he is exactly the kind of "player" her rules demand she avoid. In truth, Ian is a stable and highly successful businessman, and he's a dad looking for a permanent woman in his life. His thoughtful courting of Marcel, from bringing flowers to mowing her lawn, begins to thaw her distrust, but their relationship hits a snag when it turns out that his conglomerate is the hostile buyer trying to take over the magazine she inherited from her dad. Driven largely by conflicts arising from misconceptions and hapless snafus, Stanhope's latest (after Hopelessly Devoted) is old-fashioned pulp romance with a hip urban attitude. Though the plot is filled with inconsistencies, the story's steamy sexual tension and exuberant energy help distract from such details.
