"This is a hot one!"

BAD BOYS ONLINE will have you looking at computer terminology in a whole new light. In Hard Drive, Mack Stone, the guy she has been lusting after for months, catches Kindra in the act of reading naughty email from her online lover Russ. He offers her twelve hours to show that he can satisfy her much better than her cyberlover.

In Press Any Key, Jared Kincaid is attracted to Candy Appleton, but after having been through one disastrous office affair he is determined not to let history repeat itself. Unfortunately his boss wants Candy and him to work on an ad campaign together and sensing the tension orders them to attend an online couples counseling session. He tells them not to come out until they receive the print out certificate.

In User Friendly, Halley is mortified to find out that someone has hacked into the website of her catering business and doctored her photo. The picture with her dressed is now replaced with her without a stitch of clothing on! Halley goes to her best friend Evan, in the hopes that he can fix her site and find out who the evildoers are. Problem is that she has been avoiding him lately, due to her ever-growing feelings for Evan. Will she be able to keep it strictly business? Or is she finally going to do something about the attraction that is felt by the both of them?

BAD BOYS ONLINE is by new author Erin McCarthy and if this anthology is any indication, Ms McCarthy had better start writing faster. I thoroughly enjoyed each novella from the first page in the first story to the last page in the last story and can only wish that each novella were longer.

I know some readers tend to shy away from new authors, but in this case you would be making a huge mistake and kicking yourself later for passing up BAD BOYS ONLINE.

Reviewed by Barb Hicks
Posted August 15, 2003