"A warm and enjoyable romance"

Former FBI Agent Ethan Ramsey works a Texas ranch and does some professional sleuthing on the side. He is visiting his brother Travis in Dallas to persuade his sibling to come home to help cheer up their recently separated sister. At a strip joint, Ethan notices the eyes of the star attraction shows she hates being there. The next day in a Fort Worth restaurant they see the stripper again. Travis hits on her, but she objects saying she is a schoolteacher. Ethan tells Serena Farrell that if she is not the person taking off her clothing at a club, she has a double. He gives her his card and offers to investigate.

Serena, who has money problems, calls Ethan. He returns to the Dallas-Fort Worth area to begin investigating her double. Quickly, he learns the stripper is Sarah Welch, but she is in a cocoon of thugs working at the club. As Ethan discovers shocking information, he and Serena fall in love, but he wonders how a relationship will survive what he must reveal to his beloved.

THE WRONG WOMAN is the right book for readers who delight in a warm romance that has family secrets coming to light. Ethan is the type of person everyone wants as a mate while Serena struggles with the collapse of her world as she has always known it. Though the plot device has been used many times, fans will appreciate Linda Warren's charming and refreshing account and look forward to sequels starring siblings.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted November 3, 2006

Summary

They say everyone has a double . . .

According to private investigator Ethan Ramsey, Serena Farrell's double is a stripper working in a Dallas nightclub.

Serena doesn't believe it—but she can't help wondering. After all, her mother died when she was an infant and she's been raised by wealthy grandparents who refused to discuss the past. So she knows next to nothing about her parents.

Could she possibly have a sister? A twin?

She decides to hire Ethan to find out who this other woman is. That fateful decision leads to some shocking revelations about Serena's family-and about her look- alike, Sarah Welch. It also leads Serena into Ethan's arms . . . and into his heart.