Foreign Affair by Shelli Stevens
Samhain Publishing
Contemporary
ISBN: 978-1-60928-557-9
Reviewed by Vanessa




Lena Richards has been living with her high school sweetheart/fiancé for the past ten years.  They haven’t ever finalized their commitment and sometimes she feels ambivalent about the whole ordeal.  Lena is asked to go to Paris with her best friend and her fiancé, Keith, wants her to go.  Lena has gone with the flow so much in her life and the Paris trip really does sound like a way to get over the pre-wedding jitters, so, of course, she goes.  Lena never expected that trip to awaken her to things she never knew she was missing out on nor the complete change in her life that occurred from that innocent trip abroad.

Tyler Bentz meets Lena while they are overseas, and he is attracted to her.  He makes his move, but Lena tells him no more.  Then, for some strange reason, she has made a complete turn around and is willing to give him more than what he thought was possible.  Tyler’s feelings get deeply involved, and he starts picturing more than a passing fling.  Yet, when Keith shows up and sets Tyler straight about Lena’s revenge fu** with Tyler, he is understandably upset and hurt.  Now Lena has to try to explain to Tyler that he means more to her than a quick roll in the sack to seek retribution on her cheating fiancé, and she needs to set Keith straight about their future.  Can she do all of this while still maintaining an iota of her pride?

Foreign Affair was a delicious story that started out as a way for a hurt Lena to seek some type of balance from her cheating fiancé, but soon changed to her discovering that there is something else better out there.  However, it became more than that.  Tyler was a truly great guy, and I really felt sorry for him being hurt the way that he was.  Had Lena only been more honest instead of just letting things rest where they lay . . . well, then there wouldn’t have been any misunderstandings.

I liked that Lena finally woke up and realized that she was just settling and going with the norm instead of searching for something better.  I felt that Tyler was the perfect guy for Lena in the end of Foreign Affair.  I especially liked that Foreign Affair even had the requisite busybody secondary characters that instigated a drugging and kidnapping in order to bring about the HEA in Foreign Affair.