Katherine Spencer is an up-and-coming architect in New York City. Her professional life is on the fast-track. Her personal life is a shambles. Katherine compares every man she ever meets to Nick Bancroft, the billionaire’s son who broke her heart one summer long ago. Now, twelve years later he’s suddenly reappeared, asking her to design a house at the cove where they shared their first kiss. Is he looking for an architect, or something more? And should she forgive him?
“No Cure for the Broken Hearted” is a contemporary romance about the heartache that comes with first love.
At first, I thought No Cure For The Broken Hearted was going to be about a holiday romance gone wrong. You know the sort of thing – girl meets boy, they fall in love, she goes home after holiday, meets him again after twelve years, they get married, they live happily ever after. But I was wrong. It was much better than that!
Katherine meets Nick while on holiday…and doesn’t hear anything from him afterwards. However, she’s still in love with him and immerses herself in her work as an architect. She avoids relationships with other men, although her friend, Amanda, tries hard to match-make. Katherine is totally thrown into turmoil when Nick asks her to design a house for him, and hopes that by attending his wedding she can bring closure to their relationship. Things don’t quite work out as you would imagine, and Katherine travels halfway around the world searching for Nick.
No Cure For The Broken Hearted is a lovely, easy-to-read romance. I liked almost all the characters, even poor Harriet in the end, and they were all suited to the parts they played. The story was fairly fast moving and had a few unexpected twists. Kenneth Rosenberg made a good job of describing the emotions and insecurities of the characters, and has produced an engaging novel.
