"fast-paced tale"

Following a vacation in Cancun with her best friend, Darcy McDaniel comes home to Plano, Texas to learn her home and her possessions have been sold; her bank are accounts read negative; her charge cards are maxed to the ceiling; and her husband Warren has disappeared. Besides her esteem flushed down the toilet she learns from the family living in what was their home that Warren reported her dead. When former cop John Stark arrives to repossess her last asset her car, she realizes she needs employment but has no marketable skills.

She obtains a job as file clerk at John's repo business although he believes she will fail as she was obviously a pampered trophy wife. Darcy knows what her new boss' smug expression means so she is determined to prove she can perform this job in an exemplary manner and sets a goal to eventually become a repo woman. Of course intent and performance do not always meet, but love between two opposites make the office quite a home.

This fast-paced tale starts with quite a rush for the lead female (and the audience) when she finds out Warren said she died in a Mexican car accident and from that sixth sense start never slows down until the final kiss as she picks love not money. Fans will enjoy the antics of the high heeled Darcy as she sasses her way into the heart of stark loner John who though he knows she is not his style loves her spunk; so will readers.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted July 24, 2007

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Summary

Trophy wife Darcy McDaniel has just discovered that, thanks to her embezzling husband, her posh, upper-class life is gone for good. Now she's trading her suburban palace for a trailer park and her weekly salon appointments for a job. Darcy needs a new man—fast—one who'll keep her in the manner she darn well deserves. Problem is, the hottest prospect around is the my-way-or-the-highway hunk who's making off with her beloved Mercedes!

Ex-cop turned repo man John Stark is sure that hiring the furious blonde in his headlights is a colossal mistake. He knows Darcy's high-maintenance, designer-labels-only type—after all, he's used to taking their cars. But he never expected this hellion to have the smarts and the spunk to go from receptionist to repo agent in record time...or to drive him insane with desire. She's the last thing this tall, dark, and dangerous loner needs...and everything he never knew he wanted.