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The Icicle Heart (Harlequin Romance, 2297)
188 pages
A classic tale of a guarded heart slowly melting under the intense, formidable gaze of a powerful boss.
What it feels like
This classic category romance delivers a brisk, emotionally earnest reading experience centered on the slow thawing of a guarded heart. The mood is initially tense and emotionally closed-off, reflecting a heroine frozen by past grief and humiliation. As the narrative unfolds, the atmosphere shifts into a space of reluctant yearning and undeniable workplace tension. The prose focuses intently on internal conflict, capturing the daunting, formidable presence of a powerful love interest and the heroine's struggle against her own growing attraction. It is a story built on the friction between professional boundaries and personal vulnerability. Readers who devour vintage romance arcs featuring dynamic, imposing heroes and heroines learning to trust again will find themselves completely absorbed in this dramatic, emotional journey.
- Mood
- guarded
- tense
- yearning
- thawing
- Tone
- earnest
- dramatic
- romantic
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- workplace romance · healing from heartbreak · emotional walls · reluctant attraction
- The writing
- Classic category romance prose that focuses heavily on internal emotional conflict and the imposing presence of the love interest.
- The arc
- A journey from guarded, grief-stricken isolation to the reluctant, inevitable thawing of a closed-off heart.
- Who it's for
- Readers who love classic, angst-tinged category romances featuring formidable bosses and heroines learning to trust again.
Content notes
- grief
- past emotional betrayal
About the book
She had turned her back on love
Lawson was the dynamic millionaire head of the Alexander Corporation. To Ivory, he was nothing but her boss—and a very daunting, formidable one, too!
Certainly she had no feelings of a personal nature for him. Quite the contrary. She was still too frozen with grief and humiliation after her fiancé’s callous treatment to feel that way about any man.
So why did she find Lawson occupying more and more of her thoughts?
Description from Open Library.
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