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"An irreverent look at writing a book!"
Reviewed by Kathy Boswell
Posted March 1, 2003

Alexandra Freemar or Alix makes a deal with her mother that she will sublet a flat in England for three months and write a book. Her mother really doesn't think she can do it but she agrees albeit reluctantly. Alix has never succeeded at anything in her entire life. Read more...

"An amusing contemporary romance"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted March 2, 2003

American Alexandra "Alix" Freemar travels to England to get away from distractions in order to write a steamy romance novel. She has two months to succeed or her mother will add this on to the list of basic screw-ups that Alix has caused. She sublets a friend's London Read more...

"This one won my heart"
Reviewed by DeborahAnne MacGillivray
Courtesy Amazon.com
Posted March 28, 2003

Katie Macalister's first book NOBLE INTENTIONS was a sharp, funny and so FRESH Regency Historical. I was eager to read more from her. But then, I had to wait a year! Fortunately, her next works are due out in rapid succession, so we will not have to suffer Read more...

American versus Englishman--will it be a war of wits, or a battle to find their hearts? Alix hasn't had much luck in her life, but a trip to London, a matchmaking landlady, and the handsome Scotland Yard detective living above her indicate her luck is about to change. Has she truly found her perfect man, or will the disasters that dog her steps destroy everything she's hoped for?

Summary

Alexandra Freemar should be in heaven--she's just been handed everything she's ever wanted on a silver plate: a three month stay in London, the time to write the book of her heart, and the chance to finally prove to her mother that she's not the miserable failure her past indicates. Free-spirited, unconventional, and able to find the absurd in almost any situation, Alix finds that heaven isn't what it's cracked up to be when fate, in the form of a matchmaking landlady who promises to fix her up with her perfect soul mate, hands her the devilishly handsome man who lives upstairs. Her perfect man? Hardly! Her perfect man is not a workaholic, straight-laced detective inspector from Scotland Yard who wouldn't recognize fun if it bit him on his (extremely attractive) behind.

Alexander Black is a man with a mission, and no one is going to distract him from that, not even the uninhibited, carefree American who personifies everything he dislikes in a woman: she belittles his devotion to work, insists on dragging him into the most unlikely of situations, exudes sexuality that makes his mouth go dry whenever he's near her, and teases him with a brashness that's utterly foreign to him. But underneath that sassy mouth and devil-may-care exterior, he senses a wounded woman who's calling out to him, and try as he might, he just can't refuse answering.