"wonderfully torrid romance"

Being an ambassador's daughter Interior designer Paige Favreau knows she must behave with decorum never causing any scandals. That is fine by her as her nature is to never take risks doing anything remotely out of control.

Guitar playing Zach Reed knows his career as a musician is sliding down the slope of fame and acclaim. Though his vocation in terms of making money looks over, he is a risk- taker who lives for the next gig.

When they meet both they are attracted to one another but neither plans to make any moves as the other is obviously too much the opposite to forge anything meaningful. However when Paige's grandfather and Zach's grandmother are incapacitated due to a car accident, they become the children's caretaker while the grandparents recover. This twist of fate makes Zach and Paige temporary neighbors encouraged by their geriatric patients helping love takes it course.

The grandparents add cooling humor (Granny wants to open a burlesque theatre for instance) to a wonderfully torrid romance in which sparks ignite from the moment the lead couple lay eyes on each other. Paige and Zach are a wonderful pairing who believes that opposites might attract but the magnetism does not hold while their respective grandparent proves to be a BAD INFLUENCE on how to behave. Hot and zany, this is a hardy contemporary.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted November 24, 2006

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Summary

Tidy, controlled Paige Favreau prefers her life neat and orderly. No messy passion for her—that's how she was raised and that's how she likes it. Then she meets blues guitarist Zach Reed, and control goes out the window. Zach's ex-burlesque-queen grandmother Gloria wants to turn her estate into a burlesque museum, a move Paige's grandfather Lyndon is determined to block with his last breath. Zach wants his grandmother get what she wants, especially when she's doing it to help destitute performers, so if he can persuade Paige to change her mind, he's happy to do it.

And if persuading her includes persuading her to spend time in his bed, so much the better, because he's got a feeling Paige has a little wild thing deep down inside and he's determined to bring it out.