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South Beach Chicas Catch Their Man
Four single girls + four sexy men = Trouble for one confirmed
bachelorette who just wants to hang with her amigas !
Reporter Sylvia Amenabar loves her vida loca . Just months ago, she and her three best friends -- Adriana, Juli, and Tori -- were happily single, hoisting mojitos at their weekly get-together. Now, everything's changed. All four women have sexy men in their lives -- and Sylvia's not sure she likes it that way.
Ever since handsome cop Carlos Ramirez took a bullet for Sylvia after an investigative report went south, she's been fighting their intensifying attraction. Sure, he's gorgeous and great in bed -- and nearly died for her -- but Sylvia has sworn never to let a man be in a position to break her heart the way her father did by abandoning her and her mother.
Besides, who has time for the whole relationship dance? Sylvia's got a reputation to maintain as Miami's hottest new journalist. But when her latest assignment threatens to smear Adriana's boyfriend, Riley, and too-good-to-be-true Carlos, and her mother is hell-bent on reuniting with her father, Sylvia finds that life and love and family aren't things you can control!
bachelorette who just wants to hang with her amigas !
Reporter Sylvia Amenabar loves her vida loca . Just months ago, she and her three best friends -- Adriana, Juli, and Tori -- were happily single, hoisting mojitos at their weekly get-together. Now, everything's changed. All four women have sexy men in their lives -- and Sylvia's not sure she likes it that way.
Ever since handsome cop Carlos Ramirez took a bullet for Sylvia after an investigative report went south, she's been fighting their intensifying attraction. Sure, he's gorgeous and great in bed -- and nearly died for her -- but Sylvia has sworn never to let a man be in a position to break her heart the way her father did by abandoning her and her mother.
Besides, who has time for the whole relationship dance? Sylvia's got a reputation to maintain as Miami's hottest new journalist. But when her latest assignment threatens to smear Adriana's boyfriend, Riley, and too-good-to-be-true Carlos, and her mother is hell-bent on reuniting with her father, Sylvia finds that life and love and family aren't things you can control!
- GenresRomance
304 pages, Paperback
First published September 11, 2007
59 people want to read
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Caridad Piñeiro
181 books1,136 followersCaridad Pineiro is a transplanted Long Island girl who has fallen in love with the Jersey Shore. When Caridad isn’t taking long strolls along the boardwalk, she’s also a NY Times and USA Today bestselling author with over a million romance novels sold worldwide. Caridad is passionate about writing and helping others explore and develop their skills as writers. She is a founding member of the Liberty States Fiction Writers and has presented workshops at the RT Book Club Convention, Romance Writers of America National Conference as well as various writing organizations throughout the country. You can connect with Caridad at www.caridad.com. You can also find Caridad on:
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July 10, 2017
A cute book...About finding love and finally letting yourself fall in love..First book I have read by this author...
July 2, 2010
If Paris is a moveable feast, South Beach is an all-night party.
I know exactly when I caught South Beach fever. 1984. Picture this. Two Miami Vice detectives zipping along Ocean Drive in a red Ferrari, crashing through Biscayne Bay in a cigarette boat and daring to wear T-shirts under their Armani suits. Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. They were smart, sexy, invincible.
Flash forward to the present day. Writers love South Beach because the milieu is the perfect setting for a novel–it’s hip, edgy, filled with possibilities for compelling plots and outrageous characters. Mix one part Art Deco, one part cubanita culture, one part surreal fantasy and you’ve got a book. Just ask Caridad Pineiro.
Ms. Pineiro, a Manhattan attorney and author who was born in Havana, writes books set in SoBe that are as wild and sexy as a mojito. In SOUTH BEACH CHICAS CATCH THEIR MAN (Downtown Press, 285 pages), the four female amigas from SEX AND THE SOUTH BEACH CHICAS reunite for more adventures. The dialogue is crisp, edgy, filled with Spanish phrases and the “chicas” are irresistible. Think Sex in the City with a Latina flair. The women are smart, sexy, professional women who love their jobs, adore their men and put their families first.
If you like characters with a dangerous edge, Brian Antoni’s book, SOUTH BEACH: THE NOVEL (Grove/Atlantic paperback, 277 pages) fits the bill. Characters change, morph, re-invent themselves because in Miami “there’s the feeling you can be whatever you want to be.” The main character, Gabriel Tucker, is thrust into the strange and wonderful world of South Beach, when he inherits an historical apartment building called the Venus de Milo Arms, home to a bizarre cast of drag queens, artists and writers.
Barbara Parker, best-selling novelist, has just released another sizzling thriller set in South Beach and Miami. In THE DARK OF DAY (Vanguard, hardback, 368 pages) her protagonist, high-profile defense attorney C.J. Dunn, mingles with society mavens, porn kings, dirty politicians, and television honchos. When a supermodel turns up dead, suspicion falls on a high-profile congressman and C.J. agrees to represent him. It’s a Faustian deal: she takes the case only because he promises her an audition to host a CNN crime show. Almost every scene is filled with the flavor of South Beach, from the glitzy hotels on Collins Avenue to the trendy boutiques on Lincoln Road.
South Beach is just as tantalizing today as it was in the days of Crockett and Tubbs. Pick up a So Be novel, grab a mojito and immerse yourself in a little fantasy as you catch some rays. Perfecto.
I know exactly when I caught South Beach fever. 1984. Picture this. Two Miami Vice detectives zipping along Ocean Drive in a red Ferrari, crashing through Biscayne Bay in a cigarette boat and daring to wear T-shirts under their Armani suits. Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. They were smart, sexy, invincible.
Flash forward to the present day. Writers love South Beach because the milieu is the perfect setting for a novel–it’s hip, edgy, filled with possibilities for compelling plots and outrageous characters. Mix one part Art Deco, one part cubanita culture, one part surreal fantasy and you’ve got a book. Just ask Caridad Pineiro.
Ms. Pineiro, a Manhattan attorney and author who was born in Havana, writes books set in SoBe that are as wild and sexy as a mojito. In SOUTH BEACH CHICAS CATCH THEIR MAN (Downtown Press, 285 pages), the four female amigas from SEX AND THE SOUTH BEACH CHICAS reunite for more adventures. The dialogue is crisp, edgy, filled with Spanish phrases and the “chicas” are irresistible. Think Sex in the City with a Latina flair. The women are smart, sexy, professional women who love their jobs, adore their men and put their families first.
If you like characters with a dangerous edge, Brian Antoni’s book, SOUTH BEACH: THE NOVEL (Grove/Atlantic paperback, 277 pages) fits the bill. Characters change, morph, re-invent themselves because in Miami “there’s the feeling you can be whatever you want to be.” The main character, Gabriel Tucker, is thrust into the strange and wonderful world of South Beach, when he inherits an historical apartment building called the Venus de Milo Arms, home to a bizarre cast of drag queens, artists and writers.
Barbara Parker, best-selling novelist, has just released another sizzling thriller set in South Beach and Miami. In THE DARK OF DAY (Vanguard, hardback, 368 pages) her protagonist, high-profile defense attorney C.J. Dunn, mingles with society mavens, porn kings, dirty politicians, and television honchos. When a supermodel turns up dead, suspicion falls on a high-profile congressman and C.J. agrees to represent him. It’s a Faustian deal: she takes the case only because he promises her an audition to host a CNN crime show. Almost every scene is filled with the flavor of South Beach, from the glitzy hotels on Collins Avenue to the trendy boutiques on Lincoln Road.
South Beach is just as tantalizing today as it was in the days of Crockett and Tubbs. Pick up a So Be novel, grab a mojito and immerse yourself in a little fantasy as you catch some rays. Perfecto.
July 25, 2011
I always love a good chick lit book, and with things getting a little hot and steamy right in the first chapter, I knew for something good with South Beach Chicas Catch Their Man.
There is a lot going on in this book, something that I enjoyed very much. Sylvia faces a lot of choices as her friends move along happily in their steady relationships and she has to dig into the painful past of Carlos and much of the force to figure out who’s dirty, who’s clean, and just who is involved.
Not only are there a lot of choices to make, there are a lot of things – friendships and relationships – that ride upon those choices, upping the drama to new levels.
Even though this was a sequel, I didn’t feel particularly put off during reading it because of that. I, of course, now want to read the first one, but I don’t feel it’s a necessity.
I enjoyed this book a lot not only because I was relieved to not have to hunt down the first book to understand what was going on but because it showed five (watch out for Sylvia’s mum!) successful women who built it all themselves and are now enjoying the best out of life. It is always a pleasure to see female characters in a book who aren’t completely hopeless with men, their jobs and just about everything else.
Caridad does well not only exploring the relationships of younger women but also in exploring the relationships of the forty-somethings who society sometimes forgets about in the romantic realm.
There is a lot going on in this book, something that I enjoyed very much. Sylvia faces a lot of choices as her friends move along happily in their steady relationships and she has to dig into the painful past of Carlos and much of the force to figure out who’s dirty, who’s clean, and just who is involved.
Not only are there a lot of choices to make, there are a lot of things – friendships and relationships – that ride upon those choices, upping the drama to new levels.
Even though this was a sequel, I didn’t feel particularly put off during reading it because of that. I, of course, now want to read the first one, but I don’t feel it’s a necessity.
I enjoyed this book a lot not only because I was relieved to not have to hunt down the first book to understand what was going on but because it showed five (watch out for Sylvia’s mum!) successful women who built it all themselves and are now enjoying the best out of life. It is always a pleasure to see female characters in a book who aren’t completely hopeless with men, their jobs and just about everything else.
Caridad does well not only exploring the relationships of younger women but also in exploring the relationships of the forty-somethings who society sometimes forgets about in the romantic realm.
December 25, 2008
I got a little bored w/Sylvia....LOL But all in all a pretty good book.
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