Tasmania – Present Day

Donovan Keane has returned to the fancy resort in Tasmania to do several things. First and most important is to try to complete the purchase of the resort for his company. Next is punishing Susannah Horton for helping someone else put in a better bid on the property. Weeks ago, they spent a weekend together, so it was probably corporate spying on her part, especially when the higher bidder is her fiancé. Several months ago, while putting in his bid, he met Susannah and they spent a wild, romantic weekend together. After returning to the United States, he was mugged and severely hurt. Despite weeks in the hospital and his rehabilitation, he still has no memory of his time in Tasmania with Susannah nor the reason she would betray him. After finding out her fiancé has out bid him, he is back in Tasmania to exact his revenge, and Susannah has taken the bait and come to Tasmania to meet with him. Maybe she can help him get back his memory, too.

Susannah doesn't know why she's returning to the resort knowing she'll meet Donovan. After their wonderful weekend, she called him back in the United States but he never returned her calls, and she figured she was just a weekend fling. Then she decided to take control of her life and got engaged to Alex Carlisle, head of the Carlisle Hotel Group and the winning bidder for the resort, The Palisades at Stranger's Bay. When Susannah finds out Donovan was in the hospital and has amnesia after their weekend together, she can read what is in his mind. Donovan will do whatever it takes to ruin her engagement and get back his resort for reasons unknown.

Who can blame Donovan for wanting revenge...revenge for losing the property he wanted to buy, and revenge for Susannah getting engaged to someone else? After meeting her again, he can easily see why he was attracted to her the first time. Before returning to the resort, he investigated Susannah and found out about her engagement to his rival and jumps to the assumption that she played him for a fool before. Now he plans to use their joint sexual vibes in his favor. Can Donovan go through with his plan, and what is the underlying reason he is going to such lengths to buy the property? Susannah was astounded when Donovan never tried to contact her, and now months later, when he announces he wants to meet her again, she quickly realizes their desires haven't gone away. Can Susannah successfully ignore the combustion between them and remain true to her fiancé?

Bringing real emotions to the characters comes through Bronwyn Jameson's novel, and the sexual tension is palpable between Donovan and Susannah. Featuring a part of the world we're not familiar with, Tasmania is the backdrop to a weekend of nervousness and stress between them. It is easy to sympathize with both Donovan and Susannah as they are brought to life within the pages of TYCOON'S ONE-NIGHT REVENGE.

Other than Susannah and Donovan, the only others who play a part in their relationship are a brief appearance by Susannah's mother and the memory of Donovan's grandmother. Which just goes to prove a mother's or grandmother's influence is never forgotten.

TYCOON'S ONE-NIGHT REVENGE is a smooth, fast-paced story that highlights the passion and determination that exists between two people who want to find and cherish their true love. Revenge and sexual tension will entice you this month as you read this tantalizing, tempting book.

Carolyn Crisher