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    (Mass Market Paperback)

    • Pub. Date: August 2006
    • 400pp
    • Sales Rank: 60,341

    Reader Rating: (16 ratings)

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      • Pub. Date: August 2006
      • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
      • Format: Mass Market Paperback, 400pp
      • Sales Rank: 60,341

      Synopsis

      When Brandi Michaels discovers her fiancé hopping a flight to Vegas to marry his girlfriend, she pawns her engagement ring, buys herself a fabulous outfit, and spends one sultry night in the arms of a gorgeous Italian stranger named Roberto Bartolini. When Brandi becomes the mark for a killer, she has no choice but to turn to Roberto – a man who’s destined to be either her savior or her downfall. But one thing’s for sure: She’s not going down without a fight….

      Publishers Weekly

      Despite a cover featuring a modern pair of designer heels, this far-fetched romantic intrigue feels like a Regency awkwardly dressed in contemporary clothes. You have your arrogant rake, playboy Italian count and indicted jewel thief Roberto Bartolini; the woman who can tame him, his gorgeous attorney Brandi Michaels; and a gaggle of high-society supporting characters among the Chicago elite. Throw in a steamy, melodramatic early encounter between Roberto and Brandi, a world-renowned diamond called the Romanov Blaze, a Chicago crime ring and a silly court ruling that places Roberto in Brandi's custody, and you have a romance with an identity crisis. There are moments of suspense and flashes of sensuality (buried beneath groaners like "I only want to take you to the brink of pleasurable insanity"), but the story doesn't hang together. The protagonists rarely transcend their stock roles, and the chaotic plot is oddly predictable. Dodd, who cut her teeth on historicals, has penned memorable contemporaries (see Close to You), but this tale is much like cubic zirconia-sparkle and flash but little else. (Aug.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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      Biography

      Christina Dodd is a New York Times bestselling author whose novels have been translated into twelve languages, featured by Doubleday Book Club®, recorded on books on tape for the blind, given Romance Writers of America’s prestigious Golden Heart and RITA Awards, called the year’s best by Library Journal, and, at the pinnacle of her illustrious career, used as a clue in the Los Angeles Times crossword puzzle. Christina Dodd lives in Washington with her husband and two dogs.

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      you got it all in oneby Daphsmomma

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      August 03, 2009: Not only is this book romantic. But its got everything you need in a great book. Drama and lots of it, from the very first page. Romance, suspense, and wonderful characters. Omg I loved Roberto and Brandi. She got scorned in the beginning and goes through so much. The whole book she is having to show how smart, bright and strong she truely is. She stands up for herself. And in the end she gets what she deserves. (And so does her dad). I loved this book and so far the next one Tounge and Chic. Am about to start reading the third book in this series and can not wait!!!

      I Also Recommend: Move Heaven and Earth, White Witch, Black Curse (Rachel Morgan Series #7), Ashes of Midnight (Midnight Breed Series #6), Sookie Stackhouse Box Set (Sookie Stackhouse / Southern Vampire Series), Tongue in Chic.

      I LOVED IT!!!by Anonymous

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      January 11, 2008: I Loved this book! I could definitly see this as made for tv movie for lifetime, oxygen or we. It was a good plot, full of emotion. I could easily visualize a beautiful italian man being weakened by a not only beautiful woman but an intelligent woman. And Brandi had guts. Guts to stand up to her father, guts to break down that wall with her mother, guts to take a lover and guts to not let anything or anyone stand in her way. And who wouldn't love a movie (or book) about being the one woman who changes a wild man??


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