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Book Review of Seduction by Design

Seduction by Design
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An irate parent and an upset child have Hailey Ashton wishing she had any other job than the director of public relations at Serendipity Amusement Park. To make matters worse, the irate parent, Tyler Scott, turns out to be her boss whom she has never met. After the incident, Tyler requests that Hailey meet him in his office the next morning. Hailey is sure she is going to be fired. Instead, Tyler announces that he means to seduce Hailey and make her his lover. And so starts one of the dumbest stories ever written....

This is an older Sandra Brown book originally published under her pseudonym Erin St. Clair. Time has not been good to this story. The hero, Tyler, is the usual alpha jerk that believes he knows everything about women and can seduce anything in a skirt. But the character that really bothered me was Hailey. I've never seen a heroine jump from one stupid conclusion to the next for no apparent reason. She has such low self-esteem she doesn't believe any man would ever be interested in her. When Tyler has to go out of town, he asks Hailey to look in on his daughter. She immediately assumes he wants her as a glorified babysitter. The moment Tyler meets Hailey's vamp sister, she believes he will immediately dump her and date the sister. She needs years of therapy. It got to the place where I would laugh and roll my eyes. I gave it an extra star because I considered it a comedy. My rating: 2 Stars.