Seducing The Tycoon by M.K. Meredith – a Review
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Description:
International tycoon Drago De Luca has the world at his feet and he knows it. But back home in Italy, his beloved grandmother’s family inn is on the verge of closing down for good, thanks to hotshot American heiress, Chase Huntington, and her new hotel. Drago has to protect Nonna’s inn, even if it means getting close enough to Chase to convince her she needs to leave. But the more time he spends with Chase, the more he’s drawn to her passion, her love of his culture, and the way she looks in those Louis Vuitton heels.
Chase Huntington would give anything to enjoy her time with charming, sexy-as-hell Drago in the style capital of the world, but she has to make sure the new Huntington hotel opens successfully. How else can she prove she’s not just fashionista with a fortune–she’s an heiress savvy enough to take over the family’s biggest hotel back in California? But somewhere between boutiques and business plans, she falls head over Louboutins for Drago. But when Drago’s true motive for spending so much time with her comes to light, it could destroy everything Chase built and everything she thought she found in Italy.
Review:
Chase Huntington was introduced to us in MK Meredith‘s Malibu Betrayals (Malibu Sights series #2, review available here) as the privileged BFF who had her shi# together. She remains driven and motivated, but Seducing the Tycoon allows us far more insight into this character whose single-minded focus is thrown off kilter by a tall, dark and handsome distraction. Chase intends to indulge while simultaneously remaining aloof, keeping it casual, but the “Dragon of Europe” has other plans for her. Bigger, all-encompassing ones, to be sure. Let’s see if Drago’s walls are as impenetrable as he purports them to be. He’ll need his infamous resolve if he’s to succeed.
Instead of boning up on Italian, a language she will need for success at the grand opening of The Huntington Hotel, Chase decides to wing it. What she encounters, unfinished lobby and electrical issues, basically nothing up to her exacting standards, leaves her in desperate need of a translator to get her message across. I’m a Spanish tutor. When my students ask why they couldn’t just access their Google Translate app to communicate, I tell them that it would be a disservice; they would be at a disadvantage without some knowledge of the host country’s language. I took an immediate dislike to Chase Huntington for her frustration directed at the Italian staff who worked at her family’s hotel. It very well could have been Chase’s silver-spoon-fed impatience that made Drago’s decision to sabotage her solo launch an easy one.
“…he called out a few instructions to Chase’s staff. Finish setting up the lobby, but cooperation ends there-unless he was with her…She wouldn’t succeed with her grand opening, but he’d make sure it looked like she could with him by her side.”
Buuuuut…the gal had pluck, and that, combined with a good heart is worthy of closer inspection. Chase had to claw through her family’s nearly insurmountable expectations to make a name for herself, and that kind of perseverance is nothing short of admirable. Drago on the other hand is underhanded in his plotting and scheming to sabotage Chase’s grand endeavor. He’s a mogul on his own and it’s saying something when he found his own tactics deplorable. Chase and Drago need to shed the irritating skin.
When the truth is exposed, will Chase hold a grudge against Drago for his duplicity or acknowledge her new affinity, deep feelings, for the city, and people, she’s come to adore?
“And as for making a home, it isn’t the where that is important, it is the joining of a place to the beating of your heart. When you feel the pulse of your city in your veins, that’s when you know you are home.”
Did Chase have to leave California to find her true home?
Get ready to imagine the sounds, sights and smells, delicious aromas, of Italy in Seducing the Tycoon. MK Meredith gives us shady exteriors before revealing layers of love. Chase and Drago face off in and out of the hotel and their journey exceeds projections!
Reviewed by Carmen
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