"This is one torrid romance"

Beckham Markham corporate trainer Ryan Donnelly hates her profession as she prefers to be a full time romance author. However, she will never make the transition because she has no life experience to write the sensual, almost erotic tales, that are needed for success. The best she can generate are sweet tales that Harlequin fans would have thought were tame back in the fifties.

Her agent tells her if she really desires to switch careers, she needs sexual experience. Her only encounter was almost a decade ago and that was not anything to write home about let alone use in a sexy novel. She hires a stud, but errs and ends up in the wrong bed, that of lonely divorcee Bostonian Cade Douglas. Unable to resist the lure of a score, Cade fails to tell his hostess the truth until their next encounter. An irate Ryan realizes she has been had. She seduces Cade senseless, ties him to the bedposts, and has her way with him before leaving him to his own devices. However, a few weeks later, they meet in a corporate boardroom.

Though Ryan may struggle with turning on the heat in her novels, debut author Kristin Hardy does not seem to have that problem as she enflames the pages of her tale. Romance readers will positively relish Ryan's turning the tables, or is the sheets, on Ryan. Though the hiring of a male stud may turn off some readers, most fans of the Blaze imprint will enjoy the gender war between two wonderful protagonists.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted May 23, 2002

Summary

A simple mistake... A sexy mistake...

In fact, it would be the most incredibly sexy mistake of their lives. One minute, Cade Douglas, delectable Boston businessman, is signaling for a waitress in the bar of a very fashionable hotel. The next, he's nearly racing upstairs with a beautiful stranger, who'd answered his summons instead.

Gorgeous Ryan Donnelly can't believe it's all happened so smoothly. Before arriving, she had imagined how awkward it would be to meet the gigolo who'd been hired for her. Her gigolo. Her secret lover. The one who would ignite the intense passion she wasn't sure she'd ever experienced.

She was the one, the one who would fill his senses, save his soul. Cade was certain of it.

He was the one, summoning her so casually, so confidently. Ryan was certain of it, of him.

If they'd only known.