Night Scents

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Summary: A special author writes a special book
Review: Cape Cod true blue Yankee Piper Macintosh is unhappy that he eccentric great Aunt Hanna has sold her property to rich and reclusive Texas tycoon, Clate Jackson. This action leaves Clate and Piper as neighbors. New Age fanatic Hannah believes that the selling of her property to the ornery Southerner will force her beloved grand-niece to meet her soul mate. Piper, who likes her current lifestyle, wants nothing to do with Hannah's hand picked suitor. Fate resides with Hannah when Piper's life is threatened. The emotionally wounded Clate reaches out to help the independent damsel in distress. As danger engulfs them, the mismatched pair discovers a love that defies all logic. .....Carla Neggers has always incorporated her own special down home humor into her story lines, turning each tale into a treat to be savored. NIGHT SCENTS follows that tradition, but goes one step further as her writing makes this sensory experience almost worth dying to read. Ms. Neggers has clearly jointed the romantic intrigue elite such as Kay Hooper and Iris Johansen. .....Harriet Klausner

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Summary: A special author writes a special book
Review: Cape Cod true blue Yankee Piper Macintosh is unhappy that he eccentric great Aunt Hanna hassold her property to rich and reclusive Texas tycoon, Clate Jackson. This action leaves Clate andPiper as neighbors. New Age fanatic Hannah believes that the selling of her property to the ornery Southerner will force her beloved grand-niece to meet her soul mate. Piper, who likes her current lifestyle, wants nothing to do with Hannah's hand picked suitor. Fate resides with Hannah when Piper's life is threatened. The emotionally wounded Clate reaches out to help the independent damsel in distress. As danger engulfs them, the mismatched pair discovers a love that defies all logic. .....Carla Neggers has always incorporated her own special down home humor into her story lines, turning each tale into a treat to be savored. NIGHT SCENTS follows that tradition, but goes one step further as her writing makes this sensory experience almost worth dying to read. Ms. Neggers has clearly jointed the romantic intrigue elite such as Kay Hooper and Iris Johansen. .....Harriet Klausner

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Summary: Delicious!
Review: Carla Neggers introduces us to the most wonderful and unusual characters. Her palette of people is unique and splendid. It warms the heart to turn the pages of her book. Humor is interspersed with romance and intrigues to create a web of silky substance that ensnares and entertains. The end comes way too fast.Kathee S. Car

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Summary: A wonderful treat of a book to wile away winter nights
Review: Night Scents:I particularly enjoy the New England settings of many of Carla Neggers books. In this one we have the roaring ocean (metaphor for sexual tension), a mystery, a handsome stranger, an eccentric aunt, and a lovely, extraordinary woman. Piper Macintosh lives on a dead end street overlooking the ocean in Cape Cod. Her new neighbor is a Tennessean who bought Piper's great Aunt's property on a whim. Something the successful business finds odd himself, because he is not a man to give in to impulse. Clate Jackson is looking for an escape to the pressures back home when he gets caught up in the whirlwind which is Piper Macintosh.Piper is caught digging in Clate's yard for some root her Aunt Hannah needs for one of her herbal cures. Clate warns her not to dig again on his property. The sexual attraction is too much to be discarded by a word and they are drawn to each as surely as the ocean crashes in waves on the beach. Piper leads an interesting, eclectic life running classes from her home and helping her aunt. She has an old car but her choice of transportation is her bike which she rides all over town. Her father and brothers are overprotective. As local contractors and builders, they also have the muscle to protect her. Clate has to deal with them and prove he's worthy of their precious Piper. Piper and Clate are tied to a mystery her elderly Aunt Hannah recalls of watching from her window for her parents, who never returned from the sea, and seeing a man bury something in the yard. She remembers her father telling her he saved a Russian Princess, and something about a Faberge egg but it is Clate and Piper who must unravel the old, old mystery. Weird accidents start to happen and Piper's life is in danger. Together the Piper and Clate try to find the cause of the trouble, and save the elderly aunt from being put away in a nursing home for being looney.A wonderful, charming, delightful story. I'd tell you more but I don't want to give away more of the plot.Be

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Summary: Not so bright
Review: This is my first book from Carla Neggers. The characters were interesting, but seemed lacking in the "pull". I enjoyed Carla Negger's writing style and sense of humour, but it was slightly steriotype. The main characters were good and but did not have a good chemistry. The storyline was just a little too unbelievable, but overall ok.