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Summary: Pure Southern Sizzle
Review: I enjoyed everything about this book. From the attractive cover and title to the very last page. I don't read every SIM but after reading the reviews for this book, I decided to buy it. I'm sure glad I did. The characters were well developed, the love scenes between Beau and Kit are HOT and their teasing sexual banter is erotic and refreshing. Add to that a truly good story, a beautiful Southern plantation and an old Civil War family legend. Don't miss this one. I look forward to more books from Ms. Bruhns and hope she will consider writing cousin Remi's story soon.
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Summary: Pure Southern Sizzle
Review: I enjoyed everything about this book. From the attractive cover and title to the very last page. I don't read every SIM but after reading the reviews for this book, I decided to buy it. I'm sure glad I did. The characters were well developed, the love scenes between Beau and Kit are HOT and their teasing sexual banter is erotic and refreshing. Add to that a truly good story, a beautiful Southern plantation and an old Civil War family legend. Don't miss this one. I look forward to more books from Ms. Bruhns and hope she will consider writing cousin Remi's story soon.
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Summary: CAUSED GREAT CONFLICT
Review: I will have to rate the author - Excellent -
The story with its fast paced coflict and action - Excellent
The characters [male, anyway] and the legend - Excellent
But the leading woman [she was sure no lady] with her mental attitude to morality - her emotional conflict - immature - and her reasons for looking a gift horse in the mouth and backing away [Simon Beaulieux]for a job?? Nope, not too bright at all.Her insecurity didn't go well with her job. For being a cracker-jack investigator she was too emotional. But being human [for a character that is] I couldn't stand her attitude toward life. She seemed to cause her own problems [but don't we all]. Great story and excellent author to make one feel so about a character. I agreen thar Remi does need his own story - If Simon was juicy, Remi should be a lot better. I loved the gaters getting Hunter. Go 'gaters, Go! Definitely recommended as an excellent read --M although I wish the leading ladies? 'scuse me, females, weren't such twits!
Am most anxious to get to "Renegade's" story now - N.B.'s stories should just keep getting better.
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Summary: Well Written Romantic Suspense
Review: Kit Colfax is an insurance investigator on a mission. Her very career hinges on her capturing a jewel thief. What she never counted on was capturing Simon Beaulieux, the chief of police, in her quest. Through a well-written series of twists and turns, Kit finds herself chasing Simon from the twinkling lights of Las Vegas to the sultry bayous of his Louisiana plantation. But Kit's greatest challenge isn't capturing the thief - it's keeping her heart safe from sexy and irresistible Simon Beaulieux. But was Simon telling her the truth - or lying to protect his family? This well written romantic suspense is a page turner that will keep readers on the edge and ready for more from Nina Bruhns.
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Summary: Well Written Romantic Suspense
Review: Kit Colfax is an insurance investigator on a mission. Her very career hinges on her capturing a jewel thief. What she never counted on was capturing Simon Beaulieux, the chief of police, in her quest. Through a well-written series of twists and turns, Kit finds herself chasing Simon from the twinkling lights of Las Vegas to the sultry bayous of his Louisiana plantation. But Kit's greatest challenge isn't capturing the thief - it's keeping her heart safe from sexy and irresistible Simon Beaulieux. But was Simon telling her the truth - or lying to protect his family? This well written romantic suspense is a page turner that will keep readers on the edge and ready for more from Nina Bruhns.
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Summary: Catch Me If You Can kicks up the heat in series romance.
Review: Silhouette Intimate Moments is the best in series romance, & now they have another "star" to add to their stable of authors who produce the best in this sub-genre. I like the fact that a series romance is pushing the edge of the newest trend towards erotica. Reading pre-fab romances is boring. Nina Bruhns, a.k.a., Nikita Black, doesn't do boring. This book is a page turner. Well written, plotted, & jazzed with imagination by an author who shows outstanding ability telling fun stories. Too bad we have to wait so long before SIM puts out her next book.
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Summary: Catch Me If You Can kicks up the heat in series romance.
Review: Silhouette Intimate Moments is the best in series romance, & now they have another "star" to add to their stable of authors who produce the best in this sub-genre. I like the fact that a series romance is pushing the edge of the newest trend towards erotica. Reading pre-fab romances is boring. Nina Bruhns, a.k.a., Nikita Black, doesn't do boring. This book is a page turner. Well written, plotted, & jazzed with imagination by an author who shows outstanding ability telling fun stories. Too bad we have to wait so long before SIM puts out her next book.
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Summary: Catch Me If You Can kicks up the heat in series romance.
Review: Silhouette Intimate Moments is the best in series romance, & now they have another "star" to add to their stable of authors who produce the best in this sub-genre. I like the fact that a series romance is pushing the edge of the newest trend towards erotica. Reading pre-fab romances is boring. Nina Bruhns, a.k.a., Nikita Black, doesn't do boring. This book is a page turner. Well written, plotted, & jazzed with imagination by an author who shows outstanding ability telling fun stories. Too bad we have to wait so long before SIM puts out her next book.
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Summary: Nina Bruhns: CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
Review: The story is, as with all Nina Bruhns's books, essentially simple. This writer does not need exotic locales, unusual circumstances, unlikely coincidences, famous brand-names and all that, to sustain our interest. She is far too good a writer for that.
Here, the story is that of an insurance investigator (Katherine (Kit) Colfax), who plans a sting to catch a man (Remi Beaulieux) whom she believes to be guilty of jewellery robberies. When she succeeds in interesting him in a no-dealer, invitation-only backroom game in a Las Vegas hotel (c'm on! Vegas isn't exotic!) - and loses a sapphire necklace in the process, to make the sting possible - it turns out that the man to whom she lost the necklace was not Remi, but his look-fairly-alike cousin, Simon ("Beau") Beaulieux, who is Chief of Police in his home-town of Verdigris, LA. It is a great pleasure meeting the Louisiana aristocrat; Ms. Bruhns's French is impeccable, and she has hit upon a most charming manner to translate the French for us without appearing to do so. A man such as Beau is obviously fluently bilingual, therefore it is entirely natural for him to think in a mixture of the French of his ancestors, and English. Ah, Nina Bruhns - you're one helluva writer!
It is a joy to watch Kit and Beau get together, and it is a measure of this gifted writer's art that she sweeps us, with effortless grace, into scenes of such emotional depth that it is impossible not to feel a frisson or two. In the first great love-scene, Ms. Bruhns keeps this going, with deceptive ease, for some ten pages!
Using seemingly simple language, never overwriting, she succeeds in building an emotional tension that is tangible, and one feels that perhaps one has trespassed upon an intensely private moment.
Of course, Kit and Beau disagree vehemently about Remi's alleged guilt, yet, in spite of it all, they feel such a deep attraction for each other.
On the lighter side, there are some highly enjoyable scenes in a disreputable roadhouse deep in Bayou country; then she effortlessly takes us back to some deeply moving love-scenes in Beau's rooms at Terrebeau, and al fresco in the moonlight.
And always Ms Bruhns maintains a seemingly unsustainable tension between the two. Beau, who wants Kit to be with him forever, slowly realizing he wants her to be his wife; and Kit who believes that all she really has going for her in life is her job, her condo in New Orleans, and her determination not to depend on any man (Ms Bruhns briefly sketches for us an unhappy experience Kit had years earlier.
This exceptionally talented writer succeeds in bringing Kit and Beau together in an unusual, but entirely believable way - and if you want to know how she does this, then do yourself a favour and buy this book! Trust me, you will love every page of it.
Amazon still shows some copies available - Hurry! and get one.
You'll thank me!
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Summary: Nina Bruhns: CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
Review: The story is, as with all Nina Bruhns's books, essentially simple. This writer does not need exotic locales, unusual circumstances, unlikely coincidences, famous brand-names and all that, to sustain our interest. She is far too good a writer for that.
Here, the story is that of an insurance investigator (Katherine (Kit) Colfax), who plans a sting to catch a man (Remi Beaulieux) whom she believes to be guilty of jewellery robberies. When she succeeds in interesting him in a no-dealer, invitation-only backroom game in a Las Vegas hotel (c'm on! Vegas isn't exotic!) - and loses a sapphire necklace in the process, to make the sting possible - it turns out that the man to whom she lost the necklace was not Remi, but his look-fairly-alike cousin, Simon ("Beau") Beaulieux, who is Chief of Police in his home-town of Verdigris, LA. It is a great pleasure meeting the Louisiana aristocrat; Ms. Bruhns's French is impeccable, and she has hit upon a most charming manner to translate the French for us without appearing to do so. A man such as Beau is obviously fluently bilingual, therefore it is entirely natural for him to think in a mixture of the French of his ancestors, and English. Ah, Nina Bruhns - you're one helluva writer!
It is a joy to watch Kit and Beau get together, and it is a measure of this gifted writer's art that she sweeps us, with effortless grace, into scenes of such emotional depth that it is impossible not to feel a frisson or two. In the first great love-scene, Ms. Bruhns keeps this going, with deceptive ease, for some ten pages!
Using seemingly simple language, never overwriting, she succeeds in building an emotional tension that is tangible, and one feels that perhaps one has trespassed upon an intensely private moment.
Of course, Kit and Beau disagree vehemently about Remi's alleged guilt, yet, in spite of it all, they feel such a deep attraction for each other.
On the lighter side, there are some highly enjoyable scenes in a disreputable roadhouse deep in Bayou country; then she effortlessly takes us back to some deeply moving love-scenes in Beau's rooms at Terrebeau, and al fresco in the moonlight.
And always Ms Bruhns maintains a seemingly unsustainable tension between the two. Beau, who wants Kit to be with him forever, slowly realizing he wants her to be his wife; and Kit who believes that all she really has going for her in life is her job, her condo in New Orleans, and her determination not to depend on any man (Ms Bruhns briefly sketches for us an unhappy experience Kit had years earlier.
This exceptionally talented writer succeeds in bringing Kit and Beau together in an unusual, but entirely believable way - and if you want to know how she does this, then do yourself a favour and buy this book! Trust me, you will love every page of it.
Amazon still shows some copies available - Hurry! and get one.
You'll thank me!
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