"A taut exhilarating romance"

Winston Industry security chief Maddy Guthrie believes she screwed up her assignment of watching over her employer's teenage daughter Dawn. Though her charge slipped her a sleeping pill, Maddy feels culpable for enabling Dawn to flee to Manhattan. Calling in ex-CIA agent Jack Connors for help, he finds out that thugs working for Oliver Reynold abducted Dawn. Because Oliver hates Dawn's dad, Maddy and Jack worry about the victim's safety, as this is not an "ordinary" kidnapping. Oliver holds Dawn prisoner on Orchid Island in the Caribbean.

To safely expedite Dawn, Jack poses as a wealthy man while Maddy acts as his plaything. Jack forces Maddy to share sex with him before they go undercover so that their performance seems genuine. The sex is more than great and soon the two operatives fall in love. However, their feelings must be kept in abeyance as the danger mounts for them and Dawn.

BODY CONTACT is an exhilarating romance that is literally and figuratively action-packed undercover. The story line is loaded with sexual tension and taut suspense though Jack's initial insistence of sharing sex before the tropical encounter seems more like a bad male ploy. Still Rebecca York cleverly blazes a heated suspense that will garner her new readers who will also want to follow secondary character Alex Shane's adventures in Harlequin Intrigue's upcoming FROM The SHADOWS.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted March 20, 2002

Summary

In BODY CONTACT, I've had a wonderful time melding a sexy love story with the kind of suspense I love to write. I've fashioned a plot where danger and intrigue lurk around every corner, and the only way my hero, Jack Connors, and my heroine, Maddy Guthrie, can save their own lives is by cultivating the hot sexual tension simmering between them. But each touch, each caress, each kiss turns up the heat-- so that Jack and Maddy can hardly focus on their secret mission through the haze of arousal fogging their brains.