JT is a top model for book covers. Burned once already in love, however, he wants nothing to do with another cover model. None can be trusted, until he meets a brown skinned beauty who's shy about posing in the nude--a novelty in his world, and as genuine as she seems. How could he not fall in love with her?
Tina is a top fashion model, accustomed to strutting her stuff on the runways of the world, but usually all the interesting parts of her body are appropriately covered. When her twin sister, a famous model, has a severe allergic reaction, she fills in on a book cover shoot. Little did she realize she'd been shot in the nude with the sexiest man alive, and he'd want her in ways she never dared to imagine.
I did not believe that they could suddenly fall in love so fast especially how the hero treated the heroine initially. Not only that he was going to ask another woman to marry him a few days before meeting the heroine but did not when he found the woman and his best friend in his bed together.
The hero and heroine "BECAME" engaged within a few days of meeting each other. Totally unbelievable and illogical. This couple is destined to not be together in the future for sure.
There were a few editing errors which could have been caught up front.
Here's the deal: 77 pages is just not enough to convince me that two people who've never met suddenly fall in love and want to spend their natural-born lives together, especially when one of them just broke up with a cheating girlfriend and the other is supposedly a "good girl" who decides to get her freak on the first date. Lust, now that I totally get and had Model Misbehavior been just erotica and not attempting to be an erotic romance, then I would have bought the relationship between hunky cover model T.J. (Tim) and substitute sister-model Tina. There are too many typical tropes like the misunderstanding and the ex-girlfriend/boyfriend who pops back in with a totally unplausible story that the heroine/hero easily buys into. Honestly, I just didn't develop a feel for either character and that's a shame. Not to mention, I am really DONE with the food metaphors used to describe skin color. People who know me from various romance forums know this is a huge pet peeve of mine. Maybe twenty years ago mocha, caramel, toffee, etc. wouldn't have bothered me as much, but nowadays these words are just so overused.
I've read both Stephanie Williams and LaVerne Thompson's works before and they are amazing authors (and great people); unfortunately this one just didn't excite me. That's okay however, I still love them both, LOL! And as long as they're writing my favorite subgenre of romance, I'm going to keep buying their books.