"A fervid romantic suspense"

Edison Lone, DC's best code breaker, wonders if he should talk to the Center for International Information Control though he lacks evidence. Edison knows that someone is leaking sensitive information from the Internal Bureau of Information (IBI). However, he is set up to think it is IBI assistant Selena Silverwood, whose diary contains heated fantasies he believes hide a code that to his chagrin he cannot break.

The reason he cannot break her code is that there are no secret messages to decipher. Instead Selena is writing a novel using the office computer. Edison, who is already falling in love with her based on her passionate secrets, courts her to obtain her code. As Selena and Edison begin to forge a permanent relationship, there remain those individuals illegally releasing information and whose preference is to eliminate Edison anyway possible so they can freely leave the country when the time is right.

NIGHT PLEASURES is an enticing romantic suspense loaded with action but emphasizes the sexual tension between the lead characters that heat up the novel's pages. Edison and Selena are an ardent duet whose fervent desires burn through the plot of going undercover to find the information leak. The audience might question Edison's skills that he misreads Selena so badly in spite of the mole that sends him down the wrong path. Readers still will find NIGHT PLEASURES lives up to its title as Jule McBride purveys a fervid romantic suspense.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted September 23, 2001