"A sizzler"

Carly Saunders knows that next week she will return home to Oroville as the newest middle school teacher and to her role of the prim and proper daughter of the local pastor. However that is next week so encouraged by her pal Ginger she plans seven sultry sunny sexy days with a stranger. Alas poor Carly finds that the hunk she has met is her childhood friend Rick Baxter. Carly might as well be home as sex is out.

Rick thinks that the dozen years since he has last seen Carly has turned her into one hot babe. He feels that only a woman on the prowl would wear her itsy bitsy thong bikini. He plans to be the prey she catches as he wants to ignore the sun and keep her in his bed for the entire week. Then again perhaps that is not enough. A lifetime would suffice if he can convince the good girl next door to agree that he is the forever fling she craves.

Fans of contemporary romance last flings following college will appreciate Rick's efforts to make it with Carly. On the other hand, though Carly's rejection of Rick's advances are rationalized by her failures with men and their shared hometown background, readers will ask her to move over and give them a shot at the nice friendly huggable Rick. Overall this is a fun vacation romance with two individuals who seem so right for one another especially once Carly realizes that Rick actually desires her and is worth the risk of pain.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted October 16, 2003