He’s The One
by Jane Beckenham
Wedding consultant Taylor Sullivan is sensible, successful, and creates fantasies for a living. The fact that business is booming isn't enough. She wants to be the best and one thing is holding her back—her own lack of sexual experience. What Taylor needs is a good teacher.
Enter bad boy Cade Harper. Cade is known for his talent in the bedroom and the long string of broken hearts that he's left behind. When Taylor approaches him with a simple business proposal he can't say no. In exchange for one night of no-strings-attached passion, she'll help him develop a promotional plan for his new business.
As things heat up between them and business turns into pleasure, the man who doesn't believe in lasting love, roses, and the white picket fence finds himself falling hard and fast. Weddings, love, and commitment are Taylor's business. Can she put her fears aside long enough to make her own fantasy come true? Maybe…if he's the one.
This was a sweet, and at moments spicy, read with just enough humor thrown in to make you smile. It’s only as we get to know the protagonists that we find that they have some pretty serious issues keeping them from enjoying a full and fulfilling relationship. Which wasn’t what they wanted in the first place, right?
Taylor comes to Cade with only the hope that he will help her with the inconvenient problem of not being able to answer her clients’ questions about sex. She’s not looking for commitment, and in fact, due to a heart-wrenching past experience, she doesn’t think she’s cut out for it. She’s just looking for someone to help her with her little “personal” problem.
Cade is the perfect choice as far as Taylor is concerned. A self-proclaimed playboy with devastating sex-appeal and a wink and a smile that have women clamoring for his attention at every turn. Cade, however has his own demons that he battles. His own painful childhood has led him to the conclusion that commitment is impossible, for him at least. He finds himself intrigues by the prim and proper Taylor as she very bluntly propositions him. Before his mind can catch up with his libido, the deal is made and their story takes off.
Taylor and Cade are the perfect example of how we can let our past experiences, betrayals and hurts color the way we deal with others in our world. They run a constant battle with themselves and with each other as their pasts continually jump up to haunt them and to make their own interactions even more volatile as they try to come to terms with the burgeoning feelings neither one of them thought they wanted. There are definite moments of humor, ranging from a hysterical phone call from one bride with a very interesting question to the hijinks of Cade’s bar patrons. That humor as well as the way it all works out in the end with everyone finally realizing a few things about themselves and how life should be lived, make this a fun, and sweetly fulfilling read.

Review by Viscaria