Bayou Moon (Harlequin Intrigue 188)

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Summary: Storyline from back of book
Review: BAYOU MOON - Rebecca York

The bayou bred danger
Those who lived on the bayou were wily as gators. Those who
died on the bayou took their secrets with them. It was Tess
Beaumont's bad luck to be in deep with both the living and the
dead.

The drowning in Savannah Bayou was no more than a grim
headline to Tess until she attempted to interview the victim's
brother. Vance Gautreau was hard-bitten, dangerous, a man
whose keen mind wouldn't settle for easy answers -- and whose
savage heart would settle for nothing less than a love as
fierce as his own.

But Tess was a stranger to the society that lived by its own
rules -- and died by them. For in the bayou, passion was
deadlier than hate.

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Summary: GREAT MYSTERY AND ROMANCE
Review: Wish there was a little help in pronouncing these names.
Vance Gautreau [Gah-trow?]was a law unto himself and was very much a man's man.

Tess Beaumont was a very citified KEFT investigative reporter and afraid of the bayou country.

She worked with the camerman, Ken Holloway and they were sent to cover the story of an apparent suicide of Lisa Gautreau.

It seems people were dying who appeared on the Brad Everett show on KEFT

Tess had been raised by her aunt, Pauline Beaumont, who apparently was keeping a twenty year old secret.

Tess and Ken ran into Vance as the medics were pulling Lisa's body from the bayou. Contratemps happened and sheriff Frank Haney tossed Vance into his rat-hole of a jail. Tess was ordered by her boss to bail him out. That is the start of their strong attraction.

In trying to solve the murders Vance ends up trying to protect Tess from a possible threat to her life. In her fear, Tess turns to Vance for protection. Someone definitely wants her out of the way.

Vance is an excellently strong character, Tess is a modern woman strong enough to fight her fears. Despite my disgust with PMS - Vance and Tess work through their indepentant walls of self-protection and learn to trust and love each other. Oh, yes, and accidently happen to solve several mysteries. (g).

Will definitely recommend --M - Excellent story - not a dull moment [except up those stairs] great characters - an all around excellent read.