Reporter Lindsey Graham’s boss, Jack Casale, insists she write a story about her plan to find the ideal mate using a head hunting approach to vet her dates. Lindsey must find three candidates using her method and date them, but she doesn’t plan on Jack showing up to each of these meetings to make sure she’s okay. All this would be easier if she didn’t have the hots for risk-seeker, Jack, who she knows is all wrong for her, but she can’t stop lusting after.
Jack’s pleased when she dismisses dates #1 and #2. He can’t forget the “accidental” kiss he and Lindsay shared at their office Christmas party, but Lindsey knows she doesn’t want a lover with Jack’s gung-ho motto. He was a war correspondent in all the world’s hot spots and she doesn’t need his kind of danger.
Everything gets way more complicated when Jack agrees to let her write the expose safety-loving Lindsay longs to write. Jack insists the way to get the goods on the charlatan. This marriage-enrichment seminar guru makes promises he can’t fulfill and Jack’s answer is for Jack and Lindsey to go undercover as a couple needing help. But that means Lindsay getting way to close to Jack and she’s afraid she’ll lose her mind, along with her panties.
Carol Rose is an award-winning author of contemporary romances. She has written twenty-six books, including Always and the Blue Collar Boys series. Her books have won numerous awards, including a final in the prestigious Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award.
Carol is an active member of the North Texas Romance Writers. A frequent speaker at writers’ groups and conferences, she has taught workshops on characterization and, creating and resolving conflict. She works full time as a therapist.
Her husband and she married when she was only nineteen and he was barely twenty-one, proving that early marriage can make it, but only if you’re really lucky and persistent. They went through college and grad school together. She not only loves him still, all these years later, she still likes him—which she says is sometimes harder. They have two funny, intelligent and highly accomplished daughters. Carol loves writing and hopes you enjoy reading her work.
Lindsey is a newspaper reporter hell bent on making the headlines with a terrific story on dating. She comes up with an idea that rattles a few feathers; including her boss’s (whom she shared a heated kiss with not long before). Her boss, Jack, however, is also hell bent...on shaking Her Royal Hotness, Lindsey, up.
The young reporter wants to date three willing men hand-picked from a series of interview questions formulated by none other than Lindsey herself. Jack conspires to manipulate her dates, and they butt heads, all the while sexual tension between them rises to astronomic proportions.
Later, Lindsey finds herself at a crossroads; fearing falling for Jack will end in ruin. She feels they are too different, and after having lived through the painful divorce of her parents, the reporter has no intentions of going through that again. Hence the idea of interviewing perspective dates and taking the ‘safe’ way out to find Mr. Right, albeit unnaturally.
Unbeknownst to either of them, during one of Jack and Lindsey’s tense escapades, one of them finally caves and breaks the tension. Will Jack destroy Lindsey’s chances of finding Mr. Right?…..I won’t be a spoiler ;)
This book was the first contemporary romance I’d read in quite a while, and I loved it. It is no surprise that Carol Rose is an award winning author. ‘Read All About It’ was purchased and read in the same day, simply because it was addictive, and I have the bags under my eyes to prove it.
A great read for a rainy day when you want to sit back and enjoy an easygoing story that isn’t hard on the brain, ‘Read All About It’ delivers. Well written and fun, this book will stay open in your palms until the end.
I enjoyed this but because it was published in 1999, a few little things are outdated. The boss would be reported for sexual harassment now. I received this book for free and I voluntarily chose to review it. I've given it a 4.2 * rating. It had some good spots in it and touched on some issues that are not talked about often. Not suitable for the under 18 group.