Family Man

I've had this book for the longest time but it's one of the only books that has left a lasting impression on me and I've re-read it many times and it's still good! It's Jayne Ann Krentz at her finest! Luke is sexy and so hot and he looks out for Katy and tries to protect her, which is so damn sweet! If you haven't read this book, go out and get it right now~!

Katy Wade has a brother finishing high school. To support him, she has been the personal secretary to the Gilchrist family for almost a decade. At last she is ready to start her own business.First she must lure Luke Gilchrist home to take over the Gilchrist empire. Not an easy task, since Luke holds a life long grudge against them. The Gilchrist empire will fall without him. Luke has the magic touch of how to make money. Once Katy lures Luke home to do his "family duty" she can get on with her own life.Katy's attempts to bring Luke back succeeds more than anyone would have suspected. But Luke has plans of his own for this stubborn and loyal lady.This is the BEST Modern Day Romance I have EVER read. A match of wits, love, and family loyalies. A wickedly wonderful tale.

Jayne Ann stopped surprising us a long time again for two reasons. First, she delivers time and again some of the most enchanting books in romance. I appreciate she has never forgotten her romance roots as some of the others that have moved from romance paperback to mainstream hardback do. Almost like they are ashamed of writing romance and want to write 'legit'. Shame on them! I get sick of writers that build their career off the very readers they turn around and seem to disdain. I think writing romance is one of the hardest things to do - it's not easy to work in a formula and deliver someone fresh and original. Secondly, she stopped surprising us because her book are like that well-worn baggy sweater that you have had for decades and always go to because it's so warm and fuzzy. JAK's books are warm and fuzzy. We KNOW what we are going to get with small variations, but she weaves her magick spell and we adore it. For the most part, JAK's reprints of late and even a couple of her new ones, have been pains. The reprints are SO Dates they should be ashamed for reprinting and CHARGING NEW BOOK PRICE. They convince some readers the book is new, so everyone dashes out and buys them, only to get home and go OH NO!!!!Well, this is a reprint, but from JAK at her best! This is from her middle period, where every book she cranked out was pure perfection. So if you have not read this, you will be delighted with it. Jayne seems best when she is writing about dysfunctional families...so she is in full swing here. The Gilchrist family empire is failing and only one man can save it and when he is called "the bastard" by his own family, you know things are off to a rocky start. The Bastard....hum, Luke Gilchrist has been 'punished' by the Gilchrist family all his life because his father's "scandal". Worse, he never conformed to the Gilchrist way, so they cut him off to - again, to punish him. Instead of accepting their dictates, he is a rebel with a cause - but a smart one - that has done very well in business. Now the family NEEDS the bastard to save the crumbling family empire.Only, Luke has had a belly full of their arrogant, cruel ways, so he is ready to come in for the kill. Time has come for him to punish them. They have to beg him to save their mysteriously floundering business.The only trouble - so far Luke just might be mean enough to extract his revenge by watching the whole works go down in flames. And it falls to Katy Wade to bring him around to the right way of thinking. Katy has been to chief-cook, bottle-washer and resident keeper of this oddball family. It's been a good job, though exasperating at time, a job Katy NEEDED, when her parents died and she was left with raising her younger brother. But he is about to graduate high school, and suddenly Katy will be able to move on and do what she wants for a change instead of what she must.The one stumbling block, she has to convince Luke to return and do his family duty. However, Luke has had years o

Family Man is a fiction book authored by Jayne Ann Krentz. This book is about two people, Katy and Luke, coming together to save a family business from embezzlement. Luke has been put aside from his family for three years over a dispute his father had with his grandmother, by not marrying Katy's mother 37 years before. Anyway, the partnership Gilchrist, Inc. is having trouble, because someone inside the family business is stealing money. Luke's grandmother Justine believes nobody can save the family business and is very frightened. She asks Katy, her personal assistant, if she could go and meet Luke and ask him to save the business. Katy sets off to meet Luke. He is a tough and sarcastic man who tells Katy that he will not help the family firm and that he has no responsibility to. Of course, he turns up at the firm and takes complete control of it. He and Katy are both attracted to each other and their relationship is a funny, but passionate one. Katy Wade has spent the last few years of her life looking after the Gilchrists, she acted as their guardian angel.The head of family, Justine Gilchrist, has reached a time in her life when she wants to step down from the Gilchrist family supremacy that she had built many years before. However, she doesn't believe that anybody in her immediate family has the ability to take over and run the company as it should be. Her only hope is in convincing her disloyal grandson, Luke Gilchrist, to take over the company. Luke is not eager to become the new CEO. He says no to the thought unless Katy is willing to become his assistant and when she agrees, he decides that he will clear them out of their condition. Of course, it isn't just Katy that he wants, he also wants their number one restaurant as part of the deal. The family becomes overwhelmed.I really liked this story. Luke Gilchrist is very demanding. Katy is everything you would expect in a guardian angel: she is a loyal arbitrator in the lives of all the Gilchrists, who really do rely on her to bail them all out of their messes. The best part is that no matter what, she truly believes in Luke and in his ability to get his relatives out of their little messes. What I also really liked in this book was Luke's dog, Zeke and his habit of carrying his dog dish with him everywhere he went. Also, that he loved to steal Katy's original pesto sauces that she created. This added humor to the story.Jayne Ann Krentz makes this book exciting by adding humor, suspense, and passion. She also made the book seem realistic. I have read many of Jayne Ann's stories and I think this is one of her best.

This book is in my JAK top 3. It has all the necessary elements I look for whenever I buy anything penned by this author...witty dialogue, sexy script, humorous secondary characters, a strong hero determined to make the heroine his, & a stubborn, quirky heroine who isn't so sure she wants the hero to succeed. In effect, this is JAK at her best...a must-buy for any of her fans.