Regular marked price: $14.00Discount Price: $11.20
Cost Savings: $2.80 (20%)Price fluctuation possible.
How soon does it ship: Normal ship time within one day
Shipping? Absolutely FREE if you qualify for Super Saver Shipping.
Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780758217257
ISBN number: 0758217250
Label: Brava
Manufacturer: Brava
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 320
Printing Date: August 01, 2007
Publishing house: Brava
Sale Popularity Level: 214982
Studio: Brava
Other books you might be interested in perusing:
Editor's Notes and Comments:
Product Description:
They're the grey sheep--the bad boys every good girl wants to have hold her, touch her, take her, love her. But being bad never felt so good...
'I have some spare beer, if you're interested...'
I'd know that voice anywhere, and every time I hear it, it makes me sweat. Not that well-bred heiresses are supposed to sweat, but if you saw Donovan MacLeod, trust me, you'd need a change of clothes, too. It's been eighteen years, but he's got the same cocky swagger, silver-gray eyes, shaggy hair, and that sexy smile that promises a whole lot of trouble. Not that I'll ever find out because he loathes me--thinks I'm some spoiled princess. So, there's something I've just got to ask...
'Why are you here, Donovan?'
The lady asked a question, she deserves an answer. Well, Kate Sutherland, how about, I've fantasized about you for eighteen years? Or, I wanted to remember how it feels to need a cold shower every time you flick that perfect blond hair out of your blue eyes? Or, Why don't you come over here and let me show you, baby? Yeah, good answers, but I'll stick with the very first one--I came back to help, because I think you're in for some trouble. My bad-boy gut says you're gonna need me--in more ways than one...
User popularity level:
Rated by buyers 
-
The back cover blurb for The Black Sheep and the Princess advertised a wonderful tale of two old flames reconnecting and engaging in some nice hot sex to boot. Some may consider the sex to be hot, but other than that, Kauffman's newest was a major clinker. I found the whole plot and characters so dull that no amount of well written sex scenes could make this book interesting.
It has been 18 years since Donovan Macleod returned to Winnimocca, New York. His father was a drunken handyman at a summer camp for rich teenagers owned by Mrs. Louisa Graham. Donovan, along with his two other friends, Rafe and Finn, were nicknamed The Unholy Trinity because they were outcasts and pranksters. Donovan, or "Mac" as his friends call him, had a huge crush on Kate Sutherland, the owner's daughter. Mac always thought Kate was a spoiled rich girl and whenever she visited the camp, he would pretend she didn't exist, but Mac has never forgotten her. After his father's death, he moved to Manhattan, worked for the police force for a few years and then with his two buddies from the camp, opened their own security business called Trinity Ltd. Mac reads a newspaper article about Louisa's death which includes the information that Kate has given up her mother's fortune to her stepbrother in exchange for the camp. Someone doesn't want Kate around and begins vandalizing the property, causing Mac to drop everything, visit Kate and offer his protection and investigative skills.
Kate gave up everything to become the new owner of the camp, which will no longer be for the privileged, but rather for children with disabilities. With only her dog Bagel as company, she works to open the camp, despite her stepbrother's interference, the constant vandalism and the townspeople's disapproval. The arrival of her blast from the past, in the form of Donovan, on whom she also coincidently had a crush as a teen, surprises her, but Mac won't take no for an answer and decides to stay on the campgrounds to figure out why someone is dead set against the camp opening.
Kate and Mac's sexual tension for each other soon explodes and they no longer can keep their hands off each other. They mainly spend their days making love in the shower. Both open up to each other about their pasts, which include Mac's issues with his alcoholic father and Kate trying to succeed in a world without the comfort of her name and money. They also decide to live in the moment because Kate knows that as soon as Mac catches the person responsible for the damages, he will go back to his own life. Kate can't help but fall in love with Mac but doesn't know how to keep him in her arms. She still believes he thinks of her as that rich girl who was always too good for him.
Other than Kate and Mac enjoying non-stop sex, walking her dog Bagel, and putting up with an annoying intruder who likes to cause fires and paint obscene words on empty cabins, there is not much else to this book. There is no nail biting action and even when the mystery is solved, it is all so very sudden that I had to reread it to make sure who the culprit was. I wish I could at least recommend some nice secondary characters, but they too were underwritten and simply took up space.
If there had been more chemistry between Mac and Kate, rather than them simply looking into each other's eyes and then attacking each other out of the blue, maybe there would be something more to recommend. I quickly lost interest in the two lovers, and if these two hadn't stuck together, it wouldn't have bothered me. I didn't find it believable that these two had crushes for each other as teens and continued to harbor those feelings for nearly two decades.
The Black Sheep and the Princess is the very first book in Donna Kauffman's new series featuring the bad boys of Trinity Ltd., with Rafe and Finn's books to follow. Unfortunately, other than the catchy title, there was nothing else that would make me want to consider reading the upcoming books.
Katiebabs
Rated by buyers 
-
Fun, exciting, romantic and well written - it meets all my criteria for a good book. The various character's history and background was wonderfully incorporated into the story and interesting to follow. The idea behind the group of do-gooder's known as the "Unholy Trinity" was original and fun. The ending was exciting and took me bit by surpise, which is hard to do. Definately a good read!
Rated by buyers -
I absolutely loved this book. It's funny, steamy and poignant. I heartily recommend it.
Rated by buyers -
Donovan MacLeod finds himself returning to the town of his youth in a quest to help Kate Sutherland, the heiress he has always nursed a crush on. Her shrewish mother passed away and in an odd turnabout, Kate has swapped inheritances with her stop brother, giving up millions for an old camp compound in the Catskills. But someone has been vandalizing her camp, and Donovan decides to lend a helping hand. Suspicious at first, she reluctantly accepts his help, and the two find it difficult to resist the lust of their youth and the adults they have become. It's been nearly two decades, but everyone else still treats him like the son of the town drunk, as opposed to the former cop and righter of wrongs he has become. No one takes Kate's reports of vandalism to heart until Donovan arrives, then the acts of aggression step up to a more serious nature including arson. Could it be that her step-brother wants the money and the land?
Kauffman's novels tend to be hit or miss with me and I am kind of on the fence with this one. I loved the premise, the characters, and the chemistry between them. But the story tends to drag on and on. Conversations are dragged out when a little narrative would help to move the story along. But once the momentum picks up, the story is much more engaging. And thank goodness the fairy godmothers don't make an appearance! While the culprits behind the vandalism are no surprise, their nefarious use for the camp sure is.
Rated by buyers -
It is not that there is a lot to hate about this book; there is just not much to like either. I usually whip through a good book in one day, two max. This book took me days. It was simply dull. There was nothing to catch the reader's attention in the very first 2 chapters and it never picked up from there. Plus, the end was odd and rather out of the blue. Lastly, the hero - if he can be called that - does he live off his friend's money? That was the impression that I got, and it really bugged me. I would not recommend this book. The characters are not interesting and the plot is dull.
Find other books like this one:
