Hot Commodity by Linda Kage
Champagne Books
Contemporary
ISBN: 9781926681900
Reviewed by Vanessa




Olivia Donovan’s mother puts evil in “Evila”!  She is willing to sell her daughter to the highest bidder to get whatever she thinks she needs or wants no matter who gets hurt.  Olivia is tired of cow towing to her mother and her demands.  She has finally realized that she can’t make her mother love her by doing everything she wants or demands of her.  Now her mother wants her to trap an “elderly, widowed, alcoholic” into marriage so that her mother can benefit businesswise.  As her one and only act of rebellion, Olivia has decided that she will go out of her way to find a “young, alcoholic” to marry and send mommy dearest’s plans out the window.  Only Olivia discovers that she truly screwed that up!

Cameron Banks is the president of his own company and he has some harsh demons to fight.  He is sitting at a bar when the hottest woman he has seen in a long time comes strutting in.  Cameron is thrown for a loop when the beauty asks him to marry her, but being under the influence of alcohol seems to have diminished his capacity for thought, and he agrees to the marriage.

Hot Commodity was a delightful surprise!  I wasn’t sure if I was going to like the whole premise of the story but I found myself enjoying the ride.  I liked the dynamics of Cameron and Olivia and the way they dealt with each other as well as healed the wounds that were deeply engraved within one another.  The whole realism of the characters problems weren’t glossed over and pushed to the side.  They began the healing with one another but when they realized it couldn’t be completed with each other – outside help was found.  Hot Commodity was truly an engrossing book which had you rooting for the characters.