I investigated these romance novels to check on my prejudices to them. BLACK SHEEP P.I. has an annoying woman-in-peril plot where the female lead has little action and is very mopey about her marriage to an abuser. She was coerced into breaking off her engagement to the P.I. because her suitor had threatened to hurt her sister. The P.I. was disinherited by his family because he associated with the woman they considered a tramp. When they are thrown back together, they try to resist their passion, but are united again.
In ROYAL HEIR the female lead is much stronger, a pilot who survived a vicious foster care upbringing. The plot has something to do with a kidnapped baby who may be the heir to a fictional island country in the Mediterranean. What's really important to the readers are the sex scenes, in which the abused Julia finally breaks through her old conditioning.
That's not a bad plot point. But it's conveyed in sentences like "...(Her) molten desire, so hot and needy that grasping his head, she pulled his face back to hers and kissed him, wanting to engulf and be engulfed, needing to lose herself inside him." The next sentences describe their sex act, which isn't even as embarrassing as some of those in BLACK SHEEP P.I. “Molten desire” isn't too bad, but I really do not enjoy hearing about “wet centers” and “his tip." Eek!
The best thing about ROYAL HEIR is a gun battle where Will, the baby's father, is hurt and Julia summons the strength to pull him up and shove him up the stairs into a plane. Yeah! Not a superhuman Lara Croft but a regular woman with sudden berserker strength. No heaving loins required.
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