"This one is hot and sexy!"

What is it about sexy bad boy Creoles from New Orleans that turn your knees to jelly? Auri "Creole" Levalois is one such man and he's a cop to boot. He's been trailing Muse Summerville in hopes that she would lead him to her small time hood boyfriend Gary Fox and that Gary would lead him to big time drug dealing slime Jim Davies. The one problem with this scenario is that he's not been spying on Muse but her identical twin sister Grace, a high school counselor who is visiting from South Carolina. Muse has been missing for a week now and Grace wants to know just what has happened to her sister!

The minute she meets Creole, Grace knows she's in serious trouble! She's had too many love 'em and leave 'em boyfriends already. Creole is just the kind of guy she seriously needs to stay away from but he may just be the one who will help her find out what happened to her sister.

What Grace doesn't know is that Creole has his own agenda and if it means buttering her up, then so be it. Creole was a foster child and doesn't want any kind of serious long-term attachments. The minute he finds out that Grace isn't her sister, Muse, he knows that she's just the kind of woman who believes in happily ever after. He's just not the kind of guy she needs!

This is one hot sexy book. I especially loved the way Creole reverted to speaking French to Grace. I thought the way Grace could read Creole's emotions and could tell exactly what he needed from her was so endearing and sensual. I also thought there was a perfect ending to this one sitting read. I'm a huge fan of Nina Bruhns' books and hope to have many more years of pleasurable reading from this talented author.

Reviewed by Kathy Boswell
Posted June 25, 2002

Muse Summerville's file says the sultry blonde is hot as the Louisiana summer and has a penchant for men--the more dangerous the better. But to Detective Creole Levalois's cop instincts, something about her doesn't quite add up.....

Summary

He wanted revenge

Auri 'Creole' Levalois was looking for a killer. What he found was a woman who turned his lonely world upside down-and touched him as no other woman ever had. Determined to put his foster-brother's murderer behind bars, Creole has set up surveillance on witness Muse Summerville. Her file says the sultry blonde is hot as the Louisiana summer and has a penchant for men-the more dangerous the better. But to Creole's cop instincts, something about her didn't quite add up.

And she wanted nothing to do with him!

Grace Summerville's identical twin sister has vanished without a trace. Grace has rushed to New Orleans' notorious French Quarter to search for her. Grace is really worried. Especially when she discovers a dark, mysterious Cajun man watching her from the neighboring balcony-watching her with the feral interest of a predator. Is he somehow involved in her twin's disappearance? Or is he after something much more dangerous to a good girl like her?