Fast Track

Fast Track is the latest of Julie Garwood's Buchanan-Renard series.

Cordelia Kane has always been a daddy's girl- her father raised her alone after her mother died in a car crash when Cordelia was just two years old.  So when he has a serious heart attack, Cordelia is devastated, and the emotion is only intensified by the confusion she feels when he reveals the shocking truth about her mother.

Cordelia can't suppress her curiosity about the woman who gave birth to her, and when she discovers the answers to her questions lie in Sydney, Australia, she travels there to get them.

Hotel magnate Aiden Madison is Cordelia's best friend's older brother.  He's oblivious to the fact that she's had a crush on him for years.  When he gets railroaded into taking her along to Sydney on his company jet, he unknowingly puts her life at risk.  He's recently angered a powerful congressman by refusing to purchase overvalued land.  Congressman Chambers is not a man to let such an offense slide, and he has the resources to get even and to get what he wants.

The Breakdown:
1. I have been waiting for Cordelia's story, and I was pretty excited to see that it was her and Aiden. I really liked the way their story progressed.  I enjoyed the banter between the two of them, and that Cordelia is not afraid to stand up to Aiden despite him being a powerful, intimidating person.

2. One of my favorite scenes was from Cordelia's childhood, and first knew that Aiden was the one for her. Plus she schools two teenage boys on how cars work.

3. I enjoyed really getting to see the other two Madison brothers in this book.  In past books with the Chicago crew they were more mentioned that actually present.  I hope this means that they will be getting their own books in the future.

4.  My biggest complaint is that Cordelia gets a PhD in biochemistry, and she goes back to teaching high school chemistry. I just can't see why anyone with that PhD would be satisfied just teaching.

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