Reviews for Cross Purposes

The average rating for Cross Purposes based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-08-15 00:00:00 Todd Huth Very attractive reading for any book lover. The h (Alexandra Harper) has always been a fan of the Ecuadorian writer Camila Zavala and she had the great chance to become friends with the author, when she did reply a letter from Alexandra and they regularly exchanged correspondence after this. But there was a stop to this for unknown reasons and apart from this, Camila Zavala�s last books have had a slight difference in style, something not easily identifiable if not a close follower of the author. Alexandra feels such affinity with this author that she is writing her university graduation thesis on Camila. So she wants to gather further information and she decides to go to Ecuador and try to find what happened to Camila Zavala. And when she arrives there, after passing Customs formalities, she meets the attractive Vicente Serrano who has come to fetch her, when her intention was staying in a hotel. Vicente Serrano insists she must stay in the family mansion, as her father has a very good business and friendly relationship with the Serrano family. Alexandra feels immediately attracted to the handsome Vicente, but sees she cannot trust him very much, as he is doing his best to block her efforts to learn anything more about Camila, her true identity or try to find out her present whereabouts. But we have our HEA when Vicente sees there is no other way than confide in Alexandra, if he wants to have any chance to built a successful relationship with her. If you are interested in this, it is better that you read the book and find for yourself what happens. So this book has a lot of attractive features like interesting details about an exotic place as it its Ecuador, the tension right to the end about the author Camila and so on. I highly recommend this book.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-09-20 00:00:00 Blake Stanton A fun and bumpy ride. Australian outback setting where the heroine wants to keep the station, but evil but beautiful step-mom has wangled the shallow stepbrother as heir. The heroine is not cut out completely, but her share is minimized. The H is a long time crush of apparently both h and step-mom and is waiting in the wings to swoop in and buy the station. The heroine fights tooth and stepmother to keep the estate, but it's an uphill battle. The h is a feisty one and the real fun is the wrangling between her and her stepmother. Sonia aka evil OW stepmother is vain, fighting aging tooth and nail, and could give Lady Macbeth lessons in manipulation. She gaslights the heroine into believing that stepmom and the H are lovers then maneuvers her son's girlfriend out the door by planting her opal ring in the girl's room, and ten offers up sickly sympathy to her duped son,What a pity you brought home one who is not one of US, sweetheart! The girlfriend is so horrified that, one, she's accused of theft, and two, her boyfriend thinks she might be culpable that she's sick to her stomach. All step-mom can say is, Not on the rug! Ah, what a warm loving woman. Romance is secondary to the shenanigans of the step-mom and the heroine's interaction with her as well as the heroine's emotions for the land.