"A Spicy Comedy of Errors"

NOTORIOUS is hot, spicy, and sexy, with a high degree of sexual tension and inventiveness. Rancher Noah Garfield is in Las Vegas for a friend's wedding, when he sees hometown bad girl Keely Branscom entering a strip club. Since Keely had escaped from their small town life by posing as a centerfold for a raunchy men's magazine, he erronously assumes that she is applying for a job there and decides that it is his duty to save her. And so the fun begins.

As it turns out, Keely, while still a wild child, has at least left the idea of stripping behind and is a successful reporter for a trendy magazine called ATTITUDES - more specifically she reports on sexual fantasies. Still smarting over Noah's rejection of her 10 years earlier, she goes along with his charade.

This book is a delightful comedy of errors, beginning with a sumptuous hotel suite complete with waterfalls. Keely does everything that she possibly can to tease Noah and drive him mad. Her goal is not revenge, but rather to make Noah break out of his shell and shed some of his inhibitions. She hides naked in the closet as his friends tour his hotel suite, and taunts him at the reception by telling him that she isn't wearing underwear. The sexual tension is so high that when the couple finally do have sex, it is out of this world!

In addition to the delightful humor and sexual tension, this is also a book about people and growing up. Both Keely and Noah grow as people, with Keely working to resolve her relationship with her family, and to compromise to fit her wild child lifestyle with Noah's sedate ranching life. With the help of some ranch wives who double as rodeo girls and tell sexual fantasies at the bridal shower rather than hire a stripper, who knows what can happen?

Anything can - and will!

Reviewed by Bonnie Rock
Posted August 19, 2001

Summary

2001 RITA Finalist

Keely Branscom had always been a little notorious...

A confirmed wild child, she'd shocked the town by posing for a centerfold at the age of nineteen. But what she'd really wanted was to get a reaction from seriously sexy Noah Garfield. Only, back then, he hadn't quite known what to do with her...

Now, years later, Noah's still in over his head with Keely. But when he catches her walking into a Vegas strip joint, he knows that he has to save her from herself. Only, Keely doesn't want to be saved. Instead, Noah's supersexy childhood nemesis seems determined to show him exactly what he's been missing...