"a fine category romance"
Desperate, naked, and wet from her bubble bath soak,
private investigator Ripley Logan races through the motel
balcony window of shoe businessman Joe Pruitt's room.
Before the bewildered Joe knows what happens, he finds the
gorgeous sleuth lying nude in his bed. Joe believes
someone upstairs loves him as he feels he just got lucky
until Ripley explains that three armed thugs are after
her. Unbelievable at least to Joe's associates and even to
himself, he no longer worries about working twenty-four
hours,
seven days a week as he has Ripley on his brain. His first
priority is her safety as opposed to his shoe business
operation. As they work on solving her missing person's
case, Joe and Ripley fall in love. PRIVATE INVESTIGATIONS combines slapstick humor with
boudoir heat, which on first impressions should prove a
disastrous story line. However, terrifically talented Tori
Carrington makes the combo work smoothly and seamlessly.
Readers obtain a wonderful wacky tale with two delightful
lead protagonists. Ripley is a charmer who has ripped
asunder Joe's stable world. He is elated with the chance to
be her knight in shining armor though he wishes she would
change her occupation so they are in less dangerous
situations. Fans of jocularly torrid romances will relish
Ms. Carrington's fabulous contemporary. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted March 29, 2002
SummaryPartners in passion...
Former secretary Ripley Logan will do whatever it takes to
make it in her new career as a P.I. Only she hadn't counted
on being forced out of her room (the bathtub, actually) by
bad guys—or crawling between the sheets with a stranger to
avoid them. Still, she has a job to do and she intends to
do it--just as soon as sexy Joe Pruitt decides to let her
out of his bed...
Businessman Joe Pruitt knew traveling had its perks, but
he'd never experienced one like this! Sexy, spirited Ripley
has his head spinning—and his libido in overdrive. And
although she insists she doesn't need his help, Joe can't
just let her go. Especially since Ripley's enthusiasm for
unraveling the case keeps leading her back into Joe's bed...
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