A Model Spy

The It Girls #5

by Natalie Dunbar

It Girl: Vanessa Dawson
Mission:Resume a high-gloss fashion career to investigate the murder of two top models in a Miami drug-smuggling ring.

Supermodel Vanessa Dawson had soured on the glam-but-wild fashion world and retired at twenty-five. But as a Gotham Rose spy, she was a natural fit for this assignment. Against the protests of her wealthy family and her own misgivings, she made her comeback, going undercover in the most revealing of designer swimsuits. Soon she was falling head over high heels for her multiplatinum prime suspect...and as shoot-outs replaced fashion shoots, Vanessa learned the hard way that looks can kill.

Genres: Romance

304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

When it comes to romantic suspense, action adventure, contemporary, and paranormal fiction and romance, Natalie Dunbar savors a front row seat behind the open book or the job manning the creative pen or keyboard. Writing fiction has been a lifetime adventure and treasured escape that resulted in her first book, Best of Friends, being published by Genesis Press in March 2000. Natalie soon followed that up with three more books for Genesis Press, a novella in an anthology for Bet Books, a novella in an anthology with Parker Publishing, and books for Silhouette Bombshell. Read her latest novella in the Kimani Arabesque anthology, Can I Get An Amen Again. In June 2007, her romantic suspense novel, A Serial Affair, will be available from Silhouette Romantic Suspense.

An incurable romantic, Natalie is married to her high school sweetheart and has two sons. A University of Michigan and University of Detroit Mercy graduate, she works fulltime in the Detroit area as an engineer.

Reviews

[Kat · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was fun to read. I thought it was kind of cool to see how Vanessa handled going back into the model world while being a spy. It was good to see her overcome some of the struggles and become somewhat more confident with doing things. I do think that while the writing was good, it did become a bit repetitive.

[Diane ~Firefly~ · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book just didn't do it for me. It was put down often and I had no real urgency to pick it back up.

What I liked:
* Vanessa struggling to avoid falling back into the drug habit.
* I was impressed that it managed to do a fake out of who the hero would be

What could have been better:
* No sense of urgency or danger until the book was almost done.
* The clothing, shoes, accessories descriptions went a bit overboard.
* Every man seemed to want Vanessa. Of course, she is a model, which gives them some excuse, but she also seemed interested in many of them.
* I have problems liking a hero who doesn't care about his friends hurting people, or that is ok with putting other people in danger. Taye wasn't concerned about any of the other models making the drug runs. I realize he is being blackmailed, but he is still a jerk. And I don't get how Vanessa was ok with his attitude since she was a major supporter of a woman's shelter.

[Hpitcher]

Good, truthfully, she would have been better with makenzie

[C · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really liked it, lots of suspense and romance, super fun

[Jacqueline · Rating 3 out of 5]

I preferred the other guy over the one the main character liked. *shrug* Oh well.