"A fun read"
When reporter Colin Lyons learns that his beloved adoptive
father suffered a stroke, he takes a leave of absence from
his South American assignment to return to his
Massachusetts hometown to run Joe's labor of love, Ashford
Times. However, Colin learns that his mentor assigned his
second wife to run the newspaper. She has converted the
focus into fluff while the paper is now losing money.
Colin plans to eliminate the bubbles by bringing serious
news back as the prime theme of the paper and consequently
out of the red. Colin realizes that he finds one of the new hires, advice
columnist Rina Lowell, SIMPLY SEXY. Though he tries to
avoid her, she turns the heat up, as she wants her boss by
her side permanently. He cannot resist her and decides a
holiday fling is just the thing, but as he falls in love he
wonders how she will react to his New Year's Resolution to
fire the frivolous, which includes her. Like Rina's column, SIMPLY SEXY is mostly fluff, but anyone
looking for an amusing good time will join this reviewer
and declare so what. Instead, the audience receives a
humorous tale with some serious undertones involving coping
with loss and the state of small town newspapers. The key
to this novel, as with the previous "Simply" tales (being
reprinted starting in April), is the two delightful
protagonists, who struggle between professional desires,
fears of commitment, and a growing love for one another.
Readers will enjoy Carly Phillips' heated holiday romance
that contains much merriment with just the right dab of
solemnity. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted November 24, 2002
SummaryWhat do men want?
That's what newly hired advice columnist Rina Lowell
intends to find out. And, on a personal level, she really
needs to know—because she definitely wants her new
boss, sexy Colin Lyons. After years of living for others,
she's taking back her life—and her sexuality. And a
little holiday fling is just what she needs to get the
ball rolling...
What do women want?
Newspaperman Colin Lyons needs to figure it out-fast!
Because Rina's waging a sexual campaign against him that
he can't withstand for long. Not that he wants
to—Rina is as irresistible to him as her column, "Hot
Stuff", is to her readers. The problem? The newspaper's in
the red, and all 'fluff pieces' have to be cut. Still,
faced with Rina's seductive powers of persuasion, Colin
can't resist taking her to bed. Little does she guess
she's about be out of a job, too...
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