"wild romantic romp"

Fontaine Spencer owns Next Stop, a travel magazine that reviews restaurants, hotels, and other entertainment centers so tourists know the best, the worst, and the ugly. Someone from within the magazine warned Dallas businesses that Fontaine was coming; this cost her the ability to obtain unbiased insight. Thus she needs a decoy for Atlanta to prevent déjà vu, so that she can serendipitously do her job and uncover who is selling information. She asks her twin sister Callie to pose as her. Fontaine arranges for Mr. Complete to escort her sibling around town.

Nightclub owner Dillon Love is keeping an eye on his friend's escort service while his friend is away on vacation. Dillon is irate with Night Stop for a blistering review of his nightclub. He decides to escort Callie to teach her a lesson avenging her bad comments about his establishment. However, he soon finds he wants her to give him positive reviews to a lifetime plan, but fears how she will react to his duplicity; she on the other hand cannot understand why she feels in love with him one moment and aloof the next. Unbeknownst to Callie, Dillon's ruse includes his identical twin Wyatt.

Twins switching places has been done seemingly forever, but Sheridon Smythe refreshes the technique by having two pair exchange places leading to a wild romantic romp that works because the audience can still "see" who is who while ironically the players misunderstand what is going on. Readers will find the exchanges intelligent while the twins switch so that actions and reactions differ and confuse the participants. Fans of amusing contemporaries will enjoy this tale of mischievous twins and its humorous gender war predecessor MR. COMPLETE.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted June 7, 2005