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Summary: She's Determined to Make a Go of it in America
Review: Jocasta Chater is an on air British TV newscaster who has been hired by the station manager of TKFM, a New Orleans TV station. She thinks it's because of her accent, but we later find out it's because she reminds the station manager of his daughter. Jocasta is determined to make a go of it in America and she is ambitious as all get out.Christian McCoid runs the news department at TKFM. He married in France as a young man to a girl he'd known forever and he was devastated when she'd been killed in an accident with her lover, a lover he knew nothing about, so it's not easy for him to trust women now and he resents having Jocasta work for him. Jocasta is getting all the fluff and filler assignments and it makes her mad. She wants to do real news. Then she takes a filler piece about someone's pet alligator and turns it into a real story. This impresses Christian. Then she gets a local politician to admit to his son's death by drugs and Christian is impressed even more. So is a stalker who has been calling Jocasta and appearing outside her window. When Christian finds out about the stalker he makes plans to catch him. After all, he can't have some looney harassing the woman he's fallen in love with, now can he? And as for Jocasta, well, she's kind of fallen for Christian as well. But then what did you think was going to happen? This is an old Mills and Boon Romance that was reissued as a Harlequin book in the States and Canada and it would have been nice if Harlequin/Mills and Boon would have done just a little editing for their American audience. For example, television stations don't show repeats over here, they show reruns. And all the TV stations in the United States start with either the letter K or W, the K stations being west of the Mississippi for the most part, the W's on the other side. Everybody knows this, so why does the New Orleans station in this book have the call sign TKFM. However, despite all the Briticisms in the book and the fact that I got the sense that the author has never set foot on this side of the pond, I did kind of like the story. I liked the suspense the stalker brought to the table, and I liked Jocasta's spunk, though I had a hard time getting around that silly name. Three stars from me for this so, so romance. A Harlequin Dreamers Review by Gracie Houston
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