"Sexy story with great characters."

Lauren Ash is tired of the smarmy guys who waste their time on rote pickup lines at the parties she and friend Carolyn frequent. As Lauren walks out of another boring Clearwater Beach bash, she vows it will be her last. She heads home and picks up her little red diary and begins to write another exploding sexual encounter with her imaginary lover, the dark ocean god. It's not like she couldn't have any guy she set her heart on, it's just there aren't any decent guys around. And besides that, she's busy helping her father run their enormously successful contracting company, Ash Builders.

Painting contractor Nick Armstrong is hired to paint Lauren's home. He really shouldn't have taken the job due to the painful history his family has with the Ash family, but the money is too good to turn down. For Nick, it's just an in and out job, until he catches a glimpse of the beautiful, leggy blonde Lauren. Nick finds himself drawn to her, and one afternoon while Lauren is gone, he enters her private domain. He finds her little red diary and reads her sexual fantasies. That's it for Nick, he has to have her. But years of bitterness and bad blood between their families threaten to destroy any hope of something more than just a sexual relationship.

Ms. Blake has written a cleverly sexy novel, with charming characters, that readers are sure to enjoy.

Reviewed by Shayne Sawyer
Posted August 16, 2004