"fun holiday romance"

Stephanie Blanton was upset with the promotion of strawberry deadhead Missy to head up the cosmetics line of Marsh-Penworthy, but boinkability is more important than intelligence and consumer understanding when it comes to male bosses thinking, as usual, with the wrong head. With the encouragement of her friend Anna and a few drinks, Stephanie decides to stop being the good loyal woman with an empty Christmas stocking and become a bad girl. Her campaign centers on a "stiletto through his heart".

Three years later, Stephanie is on tour as the notorious author Stevie Bliss, whose scandalous "how to" book Blissfully Single, has stormed the country. In Chicago, newspaper columnist Owen Dasher interviews the sexy vixen with a hidden agenda. He plans to debunk her theories on love and de-myth the growing legend that surround her exploits even as he wants to have her in his bed permanently.

MORE NAUGHTY THAN NICE is a fun holiday romance starring two delightful lead protagonists whose real desires are hidden by outer masks that enable each one of them to masquerade as bed hoppers when they want only each other. The story line never takes itself seriously so that the audience receives an amusing battle of the sexes stuffing stocker. Fans will want Julie Kistler to stay in the same neighborhood telling "Ethel's" tale next.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted November 17, 2002

Summary

As one more Christmas in the slow lane looms, plain old Stephanie Blanton hatches a plan to turn her life around. A marketing wiz, she cannily follows the hard data to change her persona into a total hottie and her name to Stevie Bliss, and she writes a book about how to be "Blissfully Single." In her campaign to sell the book, she turns herself from Very, Very Nice to Very, Very Naughty in a few easy lessons. But then she runs into all the warm, fuzzy realities of Christmas, as well as a gorgeous reporter named Owen Dasher, who has a nose for news, a need to follow a scoop, and a definite desire to figure out what's underneath Stevie Bliss. Will Stevie abandon her "Blissfully Single" rulebook when Dasher comes calling? Can Dasher tame this Vixen?