Precious Things - Gail R Delaney
Title: Precious Things
Author: Gail R Delaney
Publisher: Currently Unavailable
Genre: Romance; Contemporary
Reviewed For/Rating: FAR/5 Angels And A Recommended Read Angel
Jewell Kincaid is going to Bulwark Mutual Funds for a job interview, hoping to land the position that'll get her $6,000 a year more than where she works now. She doesn't expect to come across BP Roth, a fund manager who makes his employees flinch when he turns to them and reduces them to tears when they need clarification on his instructions. Luckily, the position she is applying for is with a different fund manager - until she sticks up to BP Roth and he becomes determined to have her work for him, instead. The good news is that this station will have the responsibilities she has become accustomed to, which the previous placement she was applying for did not have. It also pays more, a lot more. $16,000 a year more than her current work - that's $10,000 a year more than the job she was originally applying for. For that amount of money, she'll put up with almost anything, even the short tempered Benjamin Prescott Roth. She faces just one problem. It doesn't seem to matter to her body that BP Roth is gruff and impatient. The attraction she feels towards him is strong, and keeping a professional distance is increasingly difficult. But surely there can be no future for them? He's her boss, she is his employee. There are already too many rumors making the rounds about them. Adding to them would be career suicide...
Benjamin Prescott Roth comes from an old money family. Not that he parades this fact about for everybody to see. Benjamin is a hard man, one who does not believe in love, except when it comes to his little sister, Victoria - the only person in his family who has ever shown him this emotion. His father is an abusive drunk, and his mother a spineless woman who never stuck up for her children. Even though his family is wealthy, Benjamin has made his own way in the world. After his father ranted he would always be a financial burden, he never took a single cent from him following graduation, gaining full academic scholarship and working his way through graduate school. His father hates him, and shipped him off to boarding school when he was a child so he wouldn't have to look at him. Why? Because Benjamin is deaf. He has been since he was born. He has learned sign language, how to speak and how to lip read. He has made a huge success of his life. His disability has not held him back. When he meets Jewell, he admires her gumption in standing her ground against him. This, combined with her qualifications and her knowledge of sign language, make him determined to gain her as his executive assistant over the current inept woman who currently fills that role. It is only later, once the deal is done, that he comes to realize that hiring her on as his assistant was a stupid thing to do. She is the best assistant he has ever had, but it has long been his policy never to get involved with an employee. His attraction to Jewell is putting his strength of will to the test - and it seems inevitable that his desire for her will eventually win out...
Precious Things, the first tale I have read by Gail R Delaney but rest assured not the last, is a fabulous story with brilliantly developed characters that come to life on the page. Benjamin is a man scared by his past, unwilling to trust in love, even as his feelings for Jewell grow ever deeper. Jewell herself is not someone without her own painful background, though she comes from a loving and protective family that anybody would love to be a member of. This story is unusual in that the hero is deaf. I have not yet read a novel where a main character had a disability/impairment, but the way in which this was detailed as an integral part of the storyline by Ms. Delaney not only got and kept me interested in the story, but also wondering whether she has some form of first hand experience with deafness herself. The problems faced by Benjamin due to his impairment are numerous and well detailed, yet the reader is not allowed to feel pity for this man, for he has become a very successful despite his disability. Besides which, he is not a man who would not want your sympathy. Tragedy dogs his footsteps, which will strike a resounding pang in your heart. Will he let Jewell through his walls, or will he turn from her in his time of need, hurting them both in the process? Precious Things is thoroughly enjoyable and a credit to Ms. Delaney!
Author: Gail R Delaney
Publisher: Currently Unavailable
Genre: Romance; Contemporary
Reviewed For/Rating: FAR/5 Angels And A Recommended Read Angel
Jewell Kincaid is going to Bulwark Mutual Funds for a job interview, hoping to land the position that'll get her $6,000 a year more than where she works now. She doesn't expect to come across BP Roth, a fund manager who makes his employees flinch when he turns to them and reduces them to tears when they need clarification on his instructions. Luckily, the position she is applying for is with a different fund manager - until she sticks up to BP Roth and he becomes determined to have her work for him, instead. The good news is that this station will have the responsibilities she has become accustomed to, which the previous placement she was applying for did not have. It also pays more, a lot more. $16,000 a year more than her current work - that's $10,000 a year more than the job she was originally applying for. For that amount of money, she'll put up with almost anything, even the short tempered Benjamin Prescott Roth. She faces just one problem. It doesn't seem to matter to her body that BP Roth is gruff and impatient. The attraction she feels towards him is strong, and keeping a professional distance is increasingly difficult. But surely there can be no future for them? He's her boss, she is his employee. There are already too many rumors making the rounds about them. Adding to them would be career suicide...
Benjamin Prescott Roth comes from an old money family. Not that he parades this fact about for everybody to see. Benjamin is a hard man, one who does not believe in love, except when it comes to his little sister, Victoria - the only person in his family who has ever shown him this emotion. His father is an abusive drunk, and his mother a spineless woman who never stuck up for her children. Even though his family is wealthy, Benjamin has made his own way in the world. After his father ranted he would always be a financial burden, he never took a single cent from him following graduation, gaining full academic scholarship and working his way through graduate school. His father hates him, and shipped him off to boarding school when he was a child so he wouldn't have to look at him. Why? Because Benjamin is deaf. He has been since he was born. He has learned sign language, how to speak and how to lip read. He has made a huge success of his life. His disability has not held him back. When he meets Jewell, he admires her gumption in standing her ground against him. This, combined with her qualifications and her knowledge of sign language, make him determined to gain her as his executive assistant over the current inept woman who currently fills that role. It is only later, once the deal is done, that he comes to realize that hiring her on as his assistant was a stupid thing to do. She is the best assistant he has ever had, but it has long been his policy never to get involved with an employee. His attraction to Jewell is putting his strength of will to the test - and it seems inevitable that his desire for her will eventually win out...
Precious Things, the first tale I have read by Gail R Delaney but rest assured not the last, is a fabulous story with brilliantly developed characters that come to life on the page. Benjamin is a man scared by his past, unwilling to trust in love, even as his feelings for Jewell grow ever deeper. Jewell herself is not someone without her own painful background, though she comes from a loving and protective family that anybody would love to be a member of. This story is unusual in that the hero is deaf. I have not yet read a novel where a main character had a disability/impairment, but the way in which this was detailed as an integral part of the storyline by Ms. Delaney not only got and kept me interested in the story, but also wondering whether she has some form of first hand experience with deafness herself. The problems faced by Benjamin due to his impairment are numerous and well detailed, yet the reader is not allowed to feel pity for this man, for he has become a very successful despite his disability. Besides which, he is not a man who would not want your sympathy. Tragedy dogs his footsteps, which will strike a resounding pang in your heart. Will he let Jewell through his walls, or will he turn from her in his time of need, hurting them both in the process? Precious Things is thoroughly enjoyable and a credit to Ms. Delaney!
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