This is one of my favorite books by Christina Dodd. It's steamy, high tempered, and a good plot.

This was my first Dodd novel, and I have to say in the beginning of the novel I wasnt sure what to think. Her heroine seemed very young, which kind of turned me off, especially in the beginning of the story when she first meets Roberto. Plus, his dialog is ridiculously cheesy. However, that being said, I found myself drawn in to the story despite myself and really liking the two as a couple. Dodd does a great job of writing relationships and plots and despite some awkward moments, I was thoroughly entertained and an totally getting the next in the trilogy.

Christina Dodd is a delightful writer. She makes you laugh and she can tug at your heartstrings. I usually love her books, but not this one.

Brandi Michaels is a woman who works very hard to overcome a bad childhood, graduates from law school and moves to COLD Chicago in the middle of winter only to find out her fiance has moved on to another woman - a woman whom he has impregnated and married in Las Vegas. To get back at the fiance and all men, she dresses up for a firm party looking like a party girl. She intends to have a wild night with a man she picks up at the party. That is probably never a good idea, especially when you consider that she hasn't met any of the partners or associates at the very distinguished law firm.

How it happens that she hasn't met the firm members is a bigger mystery than the mystery taking place in the book, because the process by which lawyers are hired at large, well respected firms requires that the new associate be interviewed by many of the partners. How did she then go to a firm party, looking incredibly beautiful, but really inappropriate only to find the man for the night?

She meets Roberto Bartolini, a sometime jewel thief cum business magnate and they have the wild fling that Brandi had wanted. Though they part at the end of the weekend, she discovers him the next day, her first day at work, as a client of this same well respected firm and she is assigned to accompany him to his court hearing. HUH???

It is so preposterous that I almost stopped reading there. I say almost, because Roberto is a fun character. He is certainly more fun than Brandi, who after she finds Roberto remanded to her custody, is a grouch for the next 200 pages. Why he wants her other than her beauty is a mystery to me. And why he proposed to her after only a week's time really presents a time-line problem to me.

Yes, I understand instant attraction. That is what makes romance novels so much fun. I also really appreciate fighting that attraction. But anything after their initial attraction did not seem possible to me.

On a final picky note, I wish that authors would stop using the word "for" when they mean "because." The two words ARE NOT interchangeable.

Another excellent book by Christina Dodd. The reader is captured right from the start & will have difficulty putting it down until it's finished. It's a good escape from life's daily trials & tribulations. Unlike reality, everything comes out happily.

This was a good book by Dodd, filled with more Romance than suspense, but it is a great summer read.