Title: The Loner (The Canyon Club, #1)
Author: Kate Moore
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Synopsis:
Gatsby meets Persuasion in a story of sex and money in L.A. as a self-sufficient loner, new billionaire Will Sloan, dares to cross the divide of privilege to claim his lost love.
PRIDE
Loner Will Sloan, son of a waitress and a dead rodeo cowboy, former scholarship student, new billionaire, is back in L.A., land of palm-lined drives and fiery sunsets. His friends urge him to jump into the hot city dating scene, but a chance encounter at a school reunion revives a powerful past love. He’s never forgotten Annie James…and this time around, he swears he’ll do the walking out.
AND PERSUASION
Widowed young, Annie James believes she’s recovered from the early heartbreaks that left her single and jobless at 24. Ten years later, she’s got a job, a house, and a personal passion helping at-risk kids. Then she steps up to do a favor for a friend and help a poor boy win a scholarship to the Canyon School. Doing so unlocks the door to the past, and to the one man who could break her heart again. This time, though, love will conquer all.
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Review by: Leeann
OK, this is a story about a man named Will who is filthy rich who feels he was wronged as a teenager/young man by thestaff and students at the private prestigious school he attended.
He didn't grow up with money, he attended the school on a grant and the head, aster exploited that to no end. He would tell Will his fees were short each month knowing the boys mother could not afford to pay the sort fall and make him do all sort of work around the school. This really was a lesson in humiliation.
In amongst this Will fell in love with a staff member that worked in he office. The young ladies name was Annie.
Will also feels Annie did him wrong by not accepting his marriage proposal when he was 18.
Now, years later the school is in financial trouble and Will and Annie meet again.
Will wants revenge on Annie and she knows it. He get his revenge to a point but along the way the fall in love again. They learn from the past that things aren't always as they seem.
This book Was very slow to start, it picked up pace around halfway through and got interesting at the end. I didn't dislike the book at all, it was just a bit slow going for me. I wasn't hooked but I didn't feel like I didn't want to finish it either. I did want to see how Will and Annie story was going to end. Im glad I Continued with the book as like I said, it really did pick up pace around the half way mark.
Would make an ideal rainy day read curled up with a hot chocolate with lots if time up your sleeve.
3.5 Stars
Kate has lived most of her life along the California coast. That experience has made her a jeans-wearing, toes in wet-sand, married to a surfer, fog-loving weather wimp, with a hint of East Coast polish from spending her college years in Boston. Family history connects her to Irish and English immigrants, Cornish miners, gold prospectors, and adventurers who sailed around Cape Horn bound for San Francisco.
When she's not reading, writing or brainstorming, Kate walks in the redwoods, feed birds, collect books, apples and leaves; she watches tele-novellas on Spanish-language TV and immerses herself in all things English. Her favorite food groups are butter, brown sugar, dark chocolate, and red wine. Kate's early literary influences were The Little Engine That Could, The Little Red Hen, and Winnie the Pooh. Austen, Heyer, Chaucer, and Homer came later and inspired her to put that first plot on paper.
Kate's heroes are honorable, virile outsiders with some grand ambition; her heroines are practical princesses, who drive those edgy loners into love with good sense and good sex.
Her family and friends offer endless support and humor. Kate says her children are her best works, and her husband is her favorite hero.
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