Body Heat (Blaze, 8)

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Summary: Great Book - But could have been longer
Review: BODY HEAT is the perfect read if you like both steamy, tension-filled romance and heart-pounding suspense. Carly Phillips has masterfully blended both to create a great late-night read. As a reader, I was unable to put this book down--first the sex would heat up, then the suspense, then the sex...you get the idea! I couldn't wait to find out what happened next and flew through this book.

The characters were believeable and likeable, and I found myself wanting to know what happened even after I closed the final page. This is the first BLAZE I've read, and I can't recommend it highly enough.

BRAVA to Carly Phillips for crafting a wonderful read!

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Summary: Great Book - But could have been longer
Review: I loved this book, but I felt like the ending was rushed.

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Summary: BODY HEAT leaves a blazing trail of passion and romance
Review: If you cannot conjure up an image of a Harlequin romance being sexy and hot, perhaps BODY HEAT by Carly Phillips may change your impression. With a mere 250 page story, Ms. Philips weaves a tale of novelty revolving Brianne Nelson as a physical therapist hired to assuage the injuries of a recuperating cop, Jake Lowell. It is actually more of a matchmaking act by his sister Rina who sees the attraction between the two of them when Brianne is holding part-time as a waitress in The Sideline Cafe.

The therapy soons becomes a fulfilment of fantasies. Even more for gratification of their vulnerable hearts. Jake wants a brief affair but their communication promises more as his heart speaks otherwise. He is scarred by his past marriage. His money-grubbing wife and the danger of his job makes him retreat from love. Brianne respects his job but she knows she would fear for him when he is at risk. A nervous breakdown is impending given her past experience.

However when Jake's arch-nemesis Ramirez swears to take his life and close in onto Brianne, both of them realize that their love may be to the extent 'till death do us part'. There is no frills in this simple tale but a gloss of temptation and reckless fantasy. Ms. Philips shows her competency in her tight narration. Smoldering with desire and dazzling passion, she proves that a Harlequin romance can raise your body heat and leave a blazing trail too.

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Summary: BODY HEAT-Jake and Brianne
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favorite scene with brianne-
being held captive by louis, jake rescuing her and being clever in how to save jake from louis by using norton.

favorite scene with jake-
realizing he was set up and returning home to save brianne from louis.

favorite scene with brianne and jake together-
the fight they have and then he handcuffs her to the chair to make her stay safe.

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Summary: *This* is what a Blaze should be.
Review: Take one message therapist (who works a 2nd job to put her brother through college) and one injured detective (who's a bit less injured than he lets on), add the detective's good-intentioned, matchmaking sister and you've got the recipe for a summer of steamy loving.

Jake Lowell had been seriously injured in a drug deal gone bad that also took the life of his partner and friend. The department says he doesn't return until he's fully rehabilitated, but unbeknownst to his sister, Jake's been working hard getting back into shape. He just doesn't want the higher-ups to know yet. He has a plan and he can't execute it if he's back on the job.

Brianne Nelson is working two jobs for money to help her brother through school. By day, she's a physical therapist. By night, a waitress at a sidewalk café. The very same café Jake and sister, Rina, frequent regularly. The looks Jake gives Brianne don't go unnoticed by Rina and when she learns what the pretty young woman does during the day, Rina hatches a scheme that gets the two of them together.

Brianne's intent on getting Jake back into shape, but all Jake can think about is getting Brianne into the whirlpool and all the fun they could have. To Brianne, Jake is all that's erotic and arousing, but with it comes the insecurity and uncertainty of a man dedicated to the law. Brianne evoked in Jake a warm feeling he hadn't felt in a long time, but he knew she, like his ex-wife before, didn't want to give her heart to a man who might not come back for supper. But for the summer, they'd revel in each other, take each other to new heights of ecstasy.

Their plans, however, take a dark detour when the drug dealer who injured Jake and killed his partner starts stalking Brianne. Will Jake be able to intervene in time to save the woman he's come to love? BODY HEAT lives up to the Blaze name with blazing hot love scenes between two impassioned characters. A masterful blend of emotion, good plotting and a good supporting cast, including a Sharpei named Norton, make for a standout story.

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Summary: Sizzling! Very highly recommended
Review: The days might be hot and humid, but New York City nights sizzle as Jack Lowell returns again and again to THE SIDEWALK CAFE to watch the sexy waitress. Just the sight of her rouses Jack's curiosity and encourages his imagination. Her blazing smile inspires a plethora of fantasies, feeding the raging inferno within. Indeed, few things have piqued his imagination since a shooting sidelined him and took out his partner. Yet even the shoulder injury and the determination to seek retribution for the loss of his fellow officer isn't enough to curb the desire that blazes with such a force that it causes him to return day after day just to watch her.

As the sizzling awareness rages into an inferno, Brianne Nelson's fantasies center around the sexy stranger who returns night after night to the cafe. Working two jobs and carrying immense responsibility has robbed her life of fun, and just the kick she gains from seeing her fantasy man is enough to add new vitality to Brianne nights. Her day job, however, soon leads to an incredible opportunity to make enough money for a life of her own. Rina, the woman who frequently accompanies the sexy stranger, hires Brianne to be her brother's physical therapist. While Rina is out of town over the summer, Brianne to moves into Rina's luxurious Manhattan apartment to work with her brother.

Jack doesn't need a live in therapist, nor does he want his sister's matchmaking. And now the woman he's desired for months is becoming his roommate. Once Brianne arrives, it's impossible to cover his previous shoulder recovery. Jack was using his injury as a cover to find the perpetrator of his partner's killer, and Brianne can't be fooled. Worse, as a cop with a bad marriage and divorce behind him, Jack doesn't need a new relationship. And his interest in Brianne is too much to contain in a no strings, unemotional affair. Something sizzles between them more than just lust. Further, her presence puts her in danger as the drug-dealing murderer realizes she can be used to get to Jack.

It promises to be a long, hotly seductive summer in BODY HEAT as author Carly Phillips playfully uses the skill of physical therapy to create a heated romance. Indeed, Phillips works massage therapy, water therapy and glass lined workout rooms into erotic encounters that fuel the heat to become a blazing inferno. In addition, the sympathetic characters and fast paced plot keep the reader thoroughly absorbed. Provocative, seductive, and hot, BODY HEAT is a keeper that comes very highly recommended.