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Όταν ο Τέρνερ Μακλάουντ και η Μπέκα Μέρσερ προσπάθησαν να κόψουν το κάπνισμα με τη μέθοδο της υπνοθεραπείας, όλα πήγαν στραβά. Όχι μόνο δεν απαλλάχτηκαν από τη συνήθειά τους, αλλά ξαφνικά άρχισαν να βλέπουν ο ένας τον άλλον με τελείως άλλα μάτια... Για την ακρίβεια, έπαψαν να είναι μόνο φίλοι...
Αυτή η αναπάντεχη εξέλιξη τους είχε αιφνιδιάσει και τους δύο. Η Μπέκα δεν ήταν καθόλου σίγουρη πως ήθελε να χάσει τον καλύτερό της φίλο. Αλλά, από την άλλη, πώς μπορούσε ν' αντισταθεί στην έλξη που ένιωθε για κείνον;
Όταν ο Τέρνερ Μακλάουντ και η Μπέκα Μέρσερ προσπάθησαν να κόψουν το κάπνισμα με τη μέθοδο της υπνοθεραπείας, όλα πήγαν στραβά. Όχι μόνο δεν απαλλάχτηκαν από τη συνήθειά τους, αλλά ξαφνικά άρχισαν να βλέπουν ο ένας τον άλλον με τελείως άλλα μάτια... Για την ακρίβεια, έπαψαν να είναι μόνο φίλοι...
Αυτή η αναπάντεχη εξέλιξη τους είχε αιφνιδιάσει και τους δύο. Η Μπέκα δεν ήταν καθόλου σίγουρη πως ήθελε να χάσει τον καλύτερό της φίλο. Αλλά, από την άλλη, πώς μπορούσε ν' αντισταθεί στην έλξη που ένιωθε για κείνον;
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First published July 1, 2005
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Elizabeth Bevarly
378 books156 followersElizabeth Bevarly was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky and earned her BA with honors in English from the University of Louisville in 1983. Although she can’t recall ever wanting to be anything but a novelist-oh, all right, she toyed briefly with becoming an archaeologist, until she realized how awful she looked in khaki and flannel, and there was a brief fling with the interior decorator thing, until she realized she had trouble distinguishing chintz from moiré, and… (Where was I? Oh, yeah. My brilliant career.) Anyway, her career side trips before making the leap to writing included stints working as a bartender, a waitress, a movie theater cashier, a soap-hawker for Crabtree & Evelyn, an apparel-hawker for The Limited, and a bridal registry consultant for a major department store. She also did time as an editorial assistant for a medical journal, where she learned the correct spellings and meanings of a variety of words (like microscopy and histological) which, with any luck at all, she will never use again in this life.
She wrote her first novel when she was twelve years old. It was 32 pages long-and that was with college rule notebook paper-and featured three girls named Liz, Marianne and Cheryl, who explored the mysteries of a haunted house. Her friends Marianne and Cheryl proclaimed it “Brilliant! Spellbinding! Kept me up past dinnertime reading!” Those rave reviews only kindled the fire inside her to write more.
Since sixth grade, Elizabeth has gone on to complete more than 60 works of contemporary romance. Her novels regularly appear on the USA Today and Waldenbooks bestseller lists, and The Thing About Men was a New York Times Extended List bestseller. She’s been nominated for the prestigious RITA Award, has won the coveted National Readers’ Choice Award, and Romantic Times magazine has seen fit to honor her with two-count ‘em TWO-Career Achievement Awards. Her books have been translated into two dozen languages and published in three dozen countries, and there are more than ten million copies in print worldwide. She has claimed as residences Washington, DC, northern Virginia, southern New Jersey and Puerto Rico, but she now resides back in her native Kentucky with her husband and son and two very troubled cats where she fully intends to remain.
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February 19, 2012
Wow, this was one smoking hot Blaze novel! *fans herself*
Turner McCloud (gotta love this name!) and Becca Mercer are best friends who have know each other since first grade and now work together at the same advertising agency. As the story opens, their smoking addition gets them in trouble with their boss, who doesn't allow smoking inside the office. They've tried to quit smoking many times before, with no success, so they - or better, Becca - decides it's time they took one final "drastic" measure to quit: to visit a hypnotherapist. The problem is, they arrive early to their appointment, the hypnotherapist mistakes them for another couple - who's seeking the hypnotherapist to help them with their sexual inhibitions - and, there you have it, Turner and Becca end up being hypnothized to respond sexually to each other.
Turner has been in love with Becca for years, so the hypnosis doesn't really change anything in him. On the other hand, Becca finds herself very unable to control her lust for him. Unlike Turner, she's not really in love with him yet, but she's always been attracted to him and the only reason she's avoided "getting horizontal" with him so far is the fear of losing their friendship. But now that she's been hypnothized to let go of her inhibitions, there's no stopping her. But as they get closer and closer and she falls in love with him, the truth about her hypnosis session comes to light and Turner wonders how real her feelings are. Is it all due to the hypnotherapist's indecent suggestion?
I really enjoyed this book. The writing was LOL funny - the opening scene was amazing -, the plot was a bit quirky, and Turner and Becca were adorable. And the love scenes... Wow, they were sizzling hot and borderline erotica. I wasn't completely comfortable with their love scene in her cubicle - I mean, at least get inside one of the conference rooms! - but Ms. Beverly's writing was so engaging that I gave it a pass. All in all, this was one of the best HQ Blaze novels I've read, and I'm going to dream about Turner tonight. ;)
Turner McCloud (gotta love this name!) and Becca Mercer are best friends who have know each other since first grade and now work together at the same advertising agency. As the story opens, their smoking addition gets them in trouble with their boss, who doesn't allow smoking inside the office. They've tried to quit smoking many times before, with no success, so they - or better, Becca - decides it's time they took one final "drastic" measure to quit: to visit a hypnotherapist. The problem is, they arrive early to their appointment, the hypnotherapist mistakes them for another couple - who's seeking the hypnotherapist to help them with their sexual inhibitions - and, there you have it, Turner and Becca end up being hypnothized to respond sexually to each other.
Turner has been in love with Becca for years, so the hypnosis doesn't really change anything in him. On the other hand, Becca finds herself very unable to control her lust for him. Unlike Turner, she's not really in love with him yet, but she's always been attracted to him and the only reason she's avoided "getting horizontal" with him so far is the fear of losing their friendship. But now that she's been hypnothized to let go of her inhibitions, there's no stopping her. But as they get closer and closer and she falls in love with him, the truth about her hypnosis session comes to light and Turner wonders how real her feelings are. Is it all due to the hypnotherapist's indecent suggestion?
I really enjoyed this book. The writing was LOL funny - the opening scene was amazing -, the plot was a bit quirky, and Turner and Becca were adorable. And the love scenes... Wow, they were sizzling hot and borderline erotica. I wasn't completely comfortable with their love scene in her cubicle - I mean, at least get inside one of the conference rooms! - but Ms. Beverly's writing was so engaging that I gave it a pass. All in all, this was one of the best HQ Blaze novels I've read, and I'm going to dream about Turner tonight. ;)
June 3, 2011
This was a cute, fun, fast read about friends turning into lovers. I love this theme and this book does it justice!
Turner and Becca have been friends forever and have both secretly been "wanting more" from their friendship. There is tons of chemistry from page one, and things certainly heat up throughout the book.
Elizabeth Bevarly is a talented and witty author. This has one of the most shocking and funny opening chapters of any book I've read. I had to re-read it several times to get the full effect. I enjoyed every moment of this book and read it easily in a couple of hours.
If you are looking for a steamy (did I mention that the sensuality in this one is scorching), quick, touching, and fun book, look no further. I loved this book and the few "icky moments" I felt with Becca being under the hypnotist's "spell" were resolved in the final chapters and I was left with a smile on my face.
Recommended!
Turner and Becca have been friends forever and have both secretly been "wanting more" from their friendship. There is tons of chemistry from page one, and things certainly heat up throughout the book.
Elizabeth Bevarly is a talented and witty author. This has one of the most shocking and funny opening chapters of any book I've read. I had to re-read it several times to get the full effect. I enjoyed every moment of this book and read it easily in a couple of hours.
If you are looking for a steamy (did I mention that the sensuality in this one is scorching), quick, touching, and fun book, look no further. I loved this book and the few "icky moments" I felt with Becca being under the hypnotist's "spell" were resolved in the final chapters and I was left with a smile on my face.
Recommended!
May 8, 2012
Okay so this book had a different plot. Instead of Love-at-first-sight, or hero-heroine-separated-but-came-back-together plot, this book starts with the main characters being best friends, working in the same firm. Now these two are trying to quit smoking, but all their efforts so far have been failures. So they go out of their way and turn to hypnotherapy. But something goes wrong.
After the hypnotherapy, Becca starts having really indecent thoughts about Turner, and it freaks her out, but at the same time, she can't stop these thoughts and neither can she stop acting on them. But it starts affecting Becca and Turner's friendship and Becca does not want things to change between them.
Oh man! it was good, hot and steamy and funny. Becca and Turner both were believable and the book was also really good with a lot less drama than the other Harlequins.
After the hypnotherapy, Becca starts having really indecent thoughts about Turner, and it freaks her out, but at the same time, she can't stop these thoughts and neither can she stop acting on them. But it starts affecting Becca and Turner's friendship and Becca does not want things to change between them.
Oh man! it was good, hot and steamy and funny. Becca and Turner both were believable and the book was also really good with a lot less drama than the other Harlequins.
June 8, 2014
I don't have a lot of time to read books since I've been busy writing two novels of my own but I needed a break and this was a great choice for me to take that break with. It was funny, the characters were easy to read about, I cared about them and it was just fun.
Becca and Turner have known each other most of their lives and have always denied themselves a physical relationship until they go together to get hypnotized to stop smoking. The therapist thought they were a newlywed couple who were there to get hypnotized for a little malfunction in the bedroom. Let's just say that Becca and Turner still smoked at the end of the book.
I don't want to put any spoilers in here because the book really is fun to read and worth the time. I found myself laughing out loud more than once and at one part close to the end, I really felt bad for Turner.
That's all I'm going to say about that.
It's a great book. I loved it and I may read it again someday.
Becca and Turner have known each other most of their lives and have always denied themselves a physical relationship until they go together to get hypnotized to stop smoking. The therapist thought they were a newlywed couple who were there to get hypnotized for a little malfunction in the bedroom. Let's just say that Becca and Turner still smoked at the end of the book.
I don't want to put any spoilers in here because the book really is fun to read and worth the time. I found myself laughing out loud more than once and at one part close to the end, I really felt bad for Turner.
That's all I'm going to say about that.
It's a great book. I loved it and I may read it again someday.
June 13, 2010
Who would have thought that two people receiving hypnotherapy to quit smoking would be involved in some passionate sex? A steamy, romantic comedy which deserves the Blaze title.
June 9, 2012
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April 23, 2013
Very fun! A little rushed at the end as we could have had more insight into Becca but overall a wonderful, funny, sexy friends to lovers book.
June 28, 2012
An early fav :)
March 6, 2018
Smokin'
First one of these friends-to-lovers books that I haven't spent half of it muttering invectives at one of the MCs.
H loves the h. He knows it, he's known it for some time. But she's shown reluctance to move past friendship and he doesn't want to lose her completely.
h is having difficulties of late - she keeps remembering a party a few years back where they'd come close to ah...doing it. She doesn't want to mess the friendship up though, because for several weeks after the incident (which she'd come to her senses and stopped before tab A got anywhere near slot B), he'd been cranky and had avoided her. She's a bit slow on the uptake. She's attracted, but in her mind, feels like she came on to him and that anything more will screw things up.
They have a little smoking issue. He loses a bet so they attend a hypnotherapist who gets them mixed up with a newlywed couple who're having...difficulties. The unsafe word is "underwear" - a bad thing since they're working on an advertising project for a company that makes sexy...underwear. This causes some hilarity initially as the poor h is affected by this (the H apparently wasn't open for that particular suggestion) and well, she seems to have little inhibition when the word is uttered. Eventually though, he is clued in - by the hypnotherapist who asks him how everything is going, which is when they figure out the mixup.
Much soul searching and a visit to said hypnotherapist later, she's figured things out for herself and corners in his lair where he's hiding, feeling sorry for himself. A bit of hanky-panky and a ring later, HEA.
Highlights - likable couple. Did I mention smokin'? I meant the steamy version; not the one they originally sought the hypnotherapist for.
Low-lights - was he really willing to play third wheel if it meant being able to be around her? The narrative was like, you know, being in someone's, I dunno, head. (yes; there were places it was written like that). Ok, thinking about that, we are theoretically supposed to be in someone's head but it shouldn't be so choppy there. Speech I can see.
First one of these friends-to-lovers books that I haven't spent half of it muttering invectives at one of the MCs.
H loves the h. He knows it, he's known it for some time. But she's shown reluctance to move past friendship and he doesn't want to lose her completely.
h is having difficulties of late - she keeps remembering a party a few years back where they'd come close to ah...doing it. She doesn't want to mess the friendship up though, because for several weeks after the incident (which she'd come to her senses and stopped before tab A got anywhere near slot B), he'd been cranky and had avoided her. She's a bit slow on the uptake. She's attracted, but in her mind, feels like she came on to him and that anything more will screw things up.
They have a little smoking issue. He loses a bet so they attend a hypnotherapist who gets them mixed up with a newlywed couple who're having...difficulties. The unsafe word is "underwear" - a bad thing since they're working on an advertising project for a company that makes sexy...underwear. This causes some hilarity initially as the poor h is affected by this (the H apparently wasn't open for that particular suggestion) and well, she seems to have little inhibition when the word is uttered. Eventually though, he is clued in - by the hypnotherapist who asks him how everything is going, which is when they figure out the mixup.
Much soul searching and a visit to said hypnotherapist later, she's figured things out for herself and corners in his lair where he's hiding, feeling sorry for himself. A bit of hanky-panky and a ring later, HEA.
Highlights - likable couple. Did I mention smokin'? I meant the steamy version; not the one they originally sought the hypnotherapist for.
Low-lights - was he really willing to play third wheel if it meant being able to be around her? The narrative was like, you know, being in someone's, I dunno, head. (yes; there were places it was written like that). Ok, thinking about that, we are theoretically supposed to be in someone's head but it shouldn't be so choppy there. Speech I can see.
October 18, 2021
What a hoot!
BFFs Becca Mercer and Turner McCloud decide to go to a hypnotherapist to get some help for their smoking. Due to a little miscommunication, they’re still smoking, AND smoking up the sheets…
Elizabeth Bevarly’s story is a bit slapstick and lot hot, and is an entertaining friends to lovers workplace romance.
BFFs Becca Mercer and Turner McCloud decide to go to a hypnotherapist to get some help for their smoking. Due to a little miscommunication, they’re still smoking, AND smoking up the sheets…
Elizabeth Bevarly’s story is a bit slapstick and lot hot, and is an entertaining friends to lovers workplace romance.
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October 3, 2016
A fun read. Good friends go to a hypnotherapist to help them quit their smoking habit. The therapist mistakes them for a married couple who is having sexual problems. So they start a hot and steamy sexual relationship but is this due to hypnosis or did they have unrealized feelings for each other?
April 20, 2013
Very cute, funny though slightly frustrating at points best-friends-to-lovers romance. The opening chapter was great fun and it is filled with wonderfully sensual and fun love scenes. Both the hero and heroine are likeable. As in most friends-to-lovers stories there's hesitation. Usually I expect to provide most of the drama and it does that here but this version of it just slightly annoyed me. Note: this was a little, tiny distraction from the fun. I enjoyed this story and the characters a lot. It has great humor, it's a little tongue in cheek and spoofy and it's also very sweet. It was the bright spot in a week filled with depressing news and unpleasant work. It will leave you with a big smile on your face.
August 3, 2014
Becca Mercer talks her best friend, Turner McCloud, into going to visit a hypnotherapist in order to cure them of their smoking habits. In a case of mistaken identity, the hypnotist gives them a post hypnotic suggestion that has nothing to do with smoking. Now Becca and Turner are having sex day and night. Lots and lots of sex. But they're still smoking.
The reader knows from the beginning that these two best friends clearly love each other and just need a nudge in the right direction. Cute story with likable characters and some funny moments. My rating: 4 Stars.
The reader knows from the beginning that these two best friends clearly love each other and just need a nudge in the right direction. Cute story with likable characters and some funny moments. My rating: 4 Stars.
August 19, 2011
I was laughing over some of the dialogues of this novel. But I liked it though. It was an easy, fast read and very cute. Well, it's very cliche to know that they'd end up together but it still looks cute. :)
December 9, 2010
Manchmal etwas albern. Ich habe es nur überflogen.
August 30, 2010
My review: http://bit.ly/bPCUBB
August 2, 2011
This indecent suggestion was suggested by Veeta, as always. :))
February 1, 2012
Cute sweet love story!! Very light easy fun read. I just may incorporate some hypnosis in my love life..........lol.
January 22, 2013
I liked it. It was a little long winded in places but I liked he story and the relationship. Friends to lovers is always a good time.
December 24, 2014
First book, I read from this author and I think I will probably read more
September 11, 2015
The love scenes are very good. The plot is interesting and humorous. There are just too much monologue and over-explanation. Too much hand holding.
November 1, 2016
It took me a little while to get into this book, but when I did it went pretty quick. It was an enjoyable read. Not much in the way of character development, but definitely hot, hot, hot.
December 5, 2013
A cute, funny read. Loved the witty humor.
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