That said I did sort of come to like him by the end. So the whole book was trying to redeem this guy and my mind was thinking of these things and working against it the entire time. Because, really, if Lana had been unattractive to him, if he didn't want to sleep with her again, would he have cared about what she was going through like he did? Would he have risked everything to save her? All we got was his statements that he was never on board to kill anyone at any time. I thought his view of himself was more accurate. Finally, no matter how much the heroine insisted I never got the impression that Deacon really was a completely "good guy". It was just a really skeevy move that is damn near impossible for me to get over. Yet he still took her out that night and slept with her. But then it becomes clear that when he and Lana met at the Louvre he was tailing her – he knew he was going to be kidnapping her. That right there is hard enough to redeem. That he wasn't truly a man who would kidnap a young woman for money. Like the heroine I was hoping that he was working undercover or something. I can very much see where other people might find Deacon Holt redeemed by the end of the book, but it didn't completely work for me. My first and biggest problem was the case of the irredeemable hero. While the major problems I had with the story (and some smaller issues) affected the plot I still didn't hate the story. I didn't really have problems with the way the plot in and of itself played out. The bigger problem is that the father of her baby is one of her kidnappers. That would be bad enough but it turns out she's pregnant. A young woman studying abroad is kidnapped due to the actions of her senator father. It's a typical Harlequin romantic suspense from beginning to end. Especially since I refuse to go to the book section anymore (oh God, I miss it so) due to a rage inducing fan fiction parading itself as a "book". I was close to doing a jig right there in the aisle. I got this one on a Target clearance shelf for 96 cents! You have no idea how exciting that was.
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