"Thrilling suspense and great characters."

Imogen Page is grieving the death of her brother when she receives a call from the FBI, requesting her help with the Loverboy case. He's a serial killer and Imogen has been the only person successful at deciphering the collage pictures he sends as clues.

Pulled in despite her misgivings, Imogen is certain that Rosalind Carnow, a nuclear physicist who has disappeared, is the latest kidnapping victim of Loverboy. She flies to Rosalind's home and runs into her rumored boyfriend, Benton Arbor, who refuses to believe the kidnapping has nothing to do with Loverboy. But when no ransom demand appears, he becomes scared that Imogen is right and that one of his best friends is in the hands of a murderer.

Imogen does her best to ignore her attraction to playboy automotive mogul Benton -- he's not her type and he's much too arrogant. He insists on investigating the kidnapping on his own and refuses to share the information (he says FBI stands for -- Fast-breaking Information). Finally, they agree to work together and those flames ignite. But is Benton in love with Rosalind? Imogen is scared to share her heart, though her body is ready to leap into the fray!

I have never yet been disappointed in a Michele Jaffe book. There is great depth to these characters, their pain, their joy all are laid out for the reader. I loved LOVERBOY.

Reviewed by Morgan Chilson
Posted May 13, 2004

Summary

LOVERBOY WANTS TO COME OUT AND PLAY.

Two weeks before he intends to slowly and sadistically kill his prey, Loverboy sends a collage of the future crime scene to the FBI. If the agents can solve its riddles, they can save the victim. It's not Loverboy's fault they've already failed five times.

Rosalind Carnow was last seen alone in her Las Vegas hotel room. No one knows where she is now—except Loverboy, and he's not saying. Imogen Page, a renegade FBI agent with a painful past and uncertain future, must match wits with the toughest opponent of her career, putting her life and her heart on the line. To save Rosalind, she'll not only have to decipher the collage but also face the hardest riddle of all: could the perfect man be the perfect killer? Loverboy. He'll take your breath away.