Birthday Bride

This is the sort of romance which Jessica Hart does the best. A strong but ditzy heroine, and brooding but charismatic hero, a whole raft of errors, and the slow burn of the two getting together. Claudia, in the middle of a mid-life crisis, decides to fly out to her friends in an Arabia.Everythign in her life has been a disaster, lost her job, her fiance, her flat, in fact the only thing holding her together is that she is going to have a 30th birthday with her friends. Except it isn't going to happen as she can't make the connecting flight. Instead she convinces the tight-lipped David who she has met on the way out to accompany her as her fiance so she can get a lift with a sheikh to get her friends house in time to celebrate her 30th birthday party. It is a recipe for disaster. Now she has to stay engaged to DAvid for the entire visit - something neither of them enjoy This is a great romance, with the two slowly falling in love nicely. Jessica Hart generally writes a nice romance with fun characters, and thisis a really good example. Highly enjoyable.