Against the Odds

Rating:
Summary: fun who-done-it romance
Review: Canyon Springs, New Mexico Fire Marshal Tucker Greywolf is in Vegas attending forensic seminars. Popular author Misty Fortune is in Vegas too seeking to overcome her writer's block that she thinks is caused by a lack of orgasms, which is depressing for an author known for her heated under the covers scenes.

However, murder occurs at Blackstone Resort, temporarily placing the sexual fantasy resort off limits as a crime scene. Through a mutual acquaintance, Detective Miguel of LVPD takes Tucker under his wings, enabling the visiting student to work on the homicide investigation. At Blackstone, Tucker meets Misty and both of them are attracted to one another. Soon they heat the sheets hotter than a building inferno, but he is small town southwest America and she is big city (in England).

Though doubtful that the police allow an "inexperienced" outsider, even with Tucker's investigative background, to join in on the case, the who-done-it romance is fun to read. The novel facilely consolidates a strong romance with torrid settings with a police procedural. Tucker and Misty prove that opposites do attract and though AGAINST THE ODDS can forge a relationship if the loving bond is strong enough to glue their souls. Fans of hot romantic suspense will take delight with this charmer due to the fascinating lead protagonists.

Harriet Klausner

Rating:
Summary: fun who-done-it romance
Review: Canyon Springs, New Mexico Fire Marshal Tucker Greywolf is in Vegas attending forensic seminars. Popular author Misty Fortune is in Vegas too seeking to overcome her writer's block that she thinks is caused by a lack of orgasms, which is depressing for an author known for her heated under the covers scenes.

However, murder occurs at Blackstone Resort, temporarily placing the sexual fantasy resort off limits as a crime scene. Through a mutual acquaintance, Detective Miguel of LVPD takes Tucker under his wings, enabling the visiting student to work on the homicide investigation. At Blackstone, Tucker meets Misty and both of them are attracted to one another. Soon they heat the sheets hotter than a building inferno, but he is small town southwest America and she is big city (in England).

Though doubtful that the police allow an "inexperienced" outsider, even with Tucker's investigative background, to join in on the case, the who-done-it romance is fun to read. The novel facilely consolidates a strong romance with torrid settings with a police procedural. Tucker and Misty prove that opposites do attract and though AGAINST THE ODDS can forge a relationship if the loving bond is strong enough to glue their souls. Fans of hot romantic suspense will take delight with this charmer due to the fascinating lead protagonists.

Harriet Klausner

Rating:
Summary: Lusty and erotic
Review: Donna Kauffman's latest Harlequin Blaze is self-admittedly indulgent and sheer escapism. The fantasy bubble builds up in a meet between Canyon Spring's fire marshal Tucker Greywolf and erotica writer Misty Fortune in the wildest circumstances. Tucker has come to Las Vega for a forensic science seminar while Misty is here for a full-blown sexual escapade in a reclusive resort catered to sensual pleasures. A homicide occurs and Tucker is engaged to comb the area and instant chemistry strikes when he sees Misty scantily clad in a cellophane papar. The two gets entangled in a heated foreplay and fulfils each fantasy of their own with silken bonds, beads and champagne. Lusty and erotic, Ms. Kauffman stages one passionate interlude after another with assured ease to bring intimacy to her endearing characters.

Rating:
Summary: Sizzling! Highly recommended
Review: Erotic novelist Misty Fortune might pen the sizzling bestsellers, but her own love life is a dud. So she pays a fortune to visit a unique Las Vegas resort specializing in adult fantasizes. Pampered and glowing, she reclines on a pile of cushions waiting for her selected fantasy man, when sexy Tucker Greywolf enters. He might be on the resort's payroll but she has definitely met the right man to make her sizzle.

Fire Marshall Tucker prefers shoptalk to the glamour of Las Vegas while attending forensic seminars at the Las Vegas Police Department. When buddies invite him to the infamous resort to investigate murder, Tucker comes along, never expecting to be seduced by the fantasy he stumbles upon. They have four days to explore their sizzling chemistry before return to their mundane lives.

Author Donna Kauffman pens a scorcher in AGAINST THE ODDS. Playfulness offsets passion in this page turning romp. Misty deplores her English skin, which gives her emotions away in splotches rather than the glow she envies in other women. Little does she know her regal bearing and clipped British accent brings about absolute fascination in Tucker. Both long for the proverbial happily-ever-after, but will eagerly accept four days of sexual bliss. The result is a believable hero and heroine with scintillating chemistry that readers will love. Once again Kauffman demonstrates her remarkable gift for sensual word play with silk cords, beads, and champagne. AGAINST THE ODDS comes highly recommended.