Three Wise Men Box Set by Serenity Woods

This is a great series of novels and I highly recommend them. The Perfect Gift I’ve read several books by Serenity Woods in her Treats series and enjoyed those, but this is my favorite novel from her so far that I’ve read. Yes, it’s a billionaire guy falls for a poor, single mother plot and we’ve seen way too many of those, But it’s not in a 50 Shades of Gray sort of book. Instead, it’s a very sweet story about Brock who has had a hard time recovering from the too-early death of his beloved wife from cancer. Erin is a poor woman whose boyfriend took off as soon as she got pregnant. Now she has an adorable, little boy about to turn three years old. Brock and his two brothers have made a fortune having cooperated to invent medical devices for children with pulmonary diseases. Brock has met Erin online at the website that he and his brothers created for parents to talk to each other and ask questions. Erin’s son has asthma. Brock and Erin have become friends as he’s helped her understand her son’s condition. She has no idea that she’s talking to a billionaire. When they finally meet, Brock falls for her and goes after with a determined push to win her heart. She has her own doubts wondering if his money is what is really attracting her and if he will ever grow to doubt that she loves him for who he is rather than what he can provided for her and her son. Bkrock is almost too good to be true. He’s a sexy doctor with a heart of gold who just wants to help children and he also happens to be a billionaire. (And seriously, isn’t any guy a millionaire any more? They always seem to be billionaires. Inflation has hit the romance novel.) Brock’s character is what made this story stand out among so many billionaire love stories. These were two kind-hearted, good people. They are working to find each other and their HEA. Sure, there are some sexy scenes, but the story is really about how a poor woman can grow comfortable with loving a good man who just happens to be monster rich. I enjoyed their story. I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. An Ideal Present This is the second book in Serenity Woods’ Three Kings series about a group of three brothers who are super rich. In a switch from some of the more typical billionaire/poor woman romances, these brothers have earned their money because they developed medical devices to help sick children and decorated the devices with characters from a series of popular children’s books that one of them has written. Two of the brothers are doctors and one is the author. These are not your average alpha billionaires featured in so many romance novels since Fifty Shades of Grey. I appreciate that. I am tired of all the young, gorgeous, alpha billionaires who just want the woman for sex until they have some sort of realization that they actually love her. I’m afraid that too many billionaires today are more likely to look like Donald Trump than Jamie Doman. The hero of this story is Charlie King and he is just a wonderful guy. And he’s a different sort of hero. He has an Asberger’s-like personality which manifests itself in uncertainty in how people are reacting to him and what they want of him. He’s brilliant; he’s the brother who invented the medical devices that have made the brothers so rich. He had a relationship end badly because his old girlfriend wanted him to be more aggressive in bed and he just couldn’t fathom why any woman would want that sort of abuse. He’s a good guy who wants a relationship but doesn’t trust his own instincts. The heroine is Ophelia, but she’s no weak woman as Hamlet’s Ophelia was. She has just left her husband of seven years because she has had it with his manipulative personality. She has a daughter who suffers from cystic fibrosis. I think this must be an aspect of this series - to have the heroines have sick children. While Charlie is hunky in looks and rich, what attracts Ophelia is his kind personality and his brains. She understands what he goes through in his difficulties in relationships but doesn’t mind. She’s willing to tell him quite openly what she wants and what she thinks so there isn’t any of the contrived misunderstandings that some romances have. Instead, they just talk things out like mature adults. Imagine that in a romance novel. I really liked the mature relationship between these two. Charlie doesn’t feel he has to be an alpha guy when Ophelia is hurt by her former husband because, as he tells her, while he’d like to go medieval on the guy, he knows that she can fight her own battles. Although he does have a creative threat for the ex-husband. And another thing - too many times the ex-husband is an evil, threatening guy. Ophelia’s ex might not be the guy she wants now, but he loves her deeply and is a good and loving father to their sick daughter. I appreciated that. I also liked that the little girl is treated as more than a plot prop of a sick child. She is a person and more than a victim of her disease. Charlie says that he is working on a research possibility to use gene therapy for CF patients. That made me curious and it seems that that is indeed where the research is focusing today for CF. There is one little mistake in the book. At one point her phone is broken and a few pages later she gets a text on it. But that didn’t detract from the book. If I had a complaint, it would be that the books is too short. I think this was supposed to be a novella and then the author decided to write it as a novel. It seems to get wrapped up and present the happy ending quite quickly. But maybe the fact that I thought it ended too quickly is a function of my having enjoyed spending time with these characters. I’ll definitely be looking for third book that tells Matt King’s story. I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. A Secret Parcel I have enjoyed the earlier two books in this trilogy, Three Kings, about three New Zealand brothers, the Kings, who have become billionaires . They made their fortune designing medical devices to help children with lung diseases and one element of the devices is that they feature the characters from the brother, Matt, who is an artist and author of a best-selling children’s series of books. Georgia is a single mother who has applied for a job managing one of the offices of their foundation to handle charitable enterprises. Matt immediately is interested in George from the moment he spots her waiting for an interview. But he has bided his time before making his move to go from employer to boyfriend to everything else he wants from her. George is coping with a rebellious 11-year old son who is having a lot of trouble dealing with the tragic death of his father. She has moved to the northern part of New Zealand to get away from an overbearing mother who has been making both her and her son miserable. While she sends her son to visit her parents, she and Matt indulge in a romantic affair as they realize how much they have in common. He’s much more than a wealthy playboy, the role she’d slotted him into. In fact he is practically perfect except for his insecurities that he doesn’t measure up to his brothers because he’s not a doctor or inventor. But he’s a great artist and writer and she helps him see how much he has given children. In fact, I found him so much more appealing and there didn’t seem to be a real reason for him to love Georgia other than that he was attracted to her looks. I appreciate the difficulties she was having with her son, but once we find out the backstory to her marriage, her sending him off to stay with her parents by himself when he begs her not to seems either terribly insensitive or just a plot device to get the kid out of the way so she can romance it up with Matt. For fans of other Serenity Woods novels, it was nice to catch up with Mozart the rescue dog her book, A Festive Treat. You don’t have to have read the earlier books in the Three Kings series to enjoy this one, but I recommend them. I really have enjoyed the series as each brother meets and falls for a single mother whose children have problems in their health or dealing with personal problems as Georgia’s son does in this one. The three books take place simultaneously as we come to find out as the brothers talk on the phone about their romances. I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. I was not compensated for my review, and I was not required to write a positive review. The opinion expressed here is my own.