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"Fine entertaining contemporary romantic intrigue"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted May 3, 2004

Raising her two preadolescent children by herself, Charlotte Tasker has been a widow for nineteen months. She loved her late spouse Kurt, but has never forgotten her tryst near National Airport with a stranger in which she lost her virginity and had the best sex of her life. Following the Read more...

"Smart, sassy, sizzling slice of suburbia."
Reviewed by Lory Martin
Posted May 12, 2004

Charlotte Tasker was always a good girl, but on the way to pick up her almost-fiancé, she meets the eyes of a stranger on the road. He takes her virginity with wild, hot sex, the only wild, hot sex she has for the next 13 years. Then she's widowed and Read more...

"A Scintillating Read"
Reviewed by Rashmi Srinivas
Posted July 1, 2004

A widow with two young children, Catherine Tasker's life's extremely hectic. Only during the lonely nighttimes does she throw off her health-fanatic/dedicated mother mantle and write erotic poetry and fantasize about the sexy stranger with whom she'd shared a passionate encounter some thirteen years ago before her marriage. The last Read more...

Summary

Charlotte Tasker has always been a good girl, so she married the most decent, reliable man she could find even though their love life was a bit on the predictable side. Thirteen years later, she's a widowed mom who runs her company, prepares three vegetarian meals a day for her children, and volunteers for just about every good deed in town. But no one knows that Charlotte has a secret weakness for squirt cheese, erotic poetry-and the mystery man she lost her virginity to in a reckless roadside tryst, moments before she got engaged. They never exchanged names, and even now, Charlotte can't stop fantasizing about that spectacular stranger... DEA agent Joe Bellacera isn't crazy about having to hide out in Minton, Ohio before testifying at the trial of a notorious drug lord. But he's handling it just fine...until he lays eyes on a fiery redhead and a hot little body he'd recognize anywhere. Joe's never had another woman like Charlotte since that day thirteen years ago. Now she's his neighbor-and strictly off-limits... Amid the balmy, honeysuckle-scented breezes of a Midwestern summer, sense and sensibility are about to be subverted by an ice cream-loving dog, conspiring kids, and nosy neighbors. And when the Widow Tasker's fantasies meet the rock-hard reality of Agent Bellacera, let the fireworks begin...