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In jeans and leather jacket he looked handsome as the devil—and just as dangerous....
With his sexy mouth, silver-gray eyes, and drop-dead dazzling body, undercover cop Brody Hunter was perfect for the job Mallory Scott had in playing escort at her double-crossing sister's wedding! Convinced she was safe in Brody's arms, Mallory was shocked to discover just how perilous—and pleasurable—his kisses could be. Could her carefully planned game of let's pretend make them both winners in the end?
Funny, steamy, and just this side of wicked, Catherine Mulvany's outrageous romp of a romance offers a potent look at one woman's hunt for the man of her dreams! She'd vowed to hire herself a hunk so gorgeous her man-stealing sister would turn green with envy, but once she found the right man for the job, would she dare offer him a lifetime contract?
With his sexy mouth, silver-gray eyes, and drop-dead dazzling body, undercover cop Brody Hunter was perfect for the job Mallory Scott had in playing escort at her double-crossing sister's wedding! Convinced she was safe in Brody's arms, Mallory was shocked to discover just how perilous—and pleasurable—his kisses could be. Could her carefully planned game of let's pretend make them both winners in the end?
Funny, steamy, and just this side of wicked, Catherine Mulvany's outrageous romp of a romance offers a potent look at one woman's hunt for the man of her dreams! She'd vowed to hire herself a hunk so gorgeous her man-stealing sister would turn green with envy, but once she found the right man for the job, would she dare offer him a lifetime contract?
- GenresRomance
240 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1998
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Catherine Mulvany
15 books17 followersCatherine Mulvany’s life is a fairy tale. Okay, a fractured fairy tale. At age eleven she fell hopelessly in love with a little town in eastern Oregon. With a population under fifty—counting the cats and dogs—the town didn’t even qualify as one-horse, but the place had character. Character and an abundance of arkayesses.
Never heard of an arkayess? Neither had Catherine. But on the first day of her visit, she became intimately acquainted with one particularly gruesome member of this species—also known as the road-killed snake. Arkayess. RKS. Road-killed snake. Get it?
She did. The hard way.
Catherine was walking along a side street, minding her own business, when the orneriest boy in town came riding down the road on his bike, swinging a dead snake like a lariat. “You’d better run, kid,” he yelled. “I’m gonna wrap this arkayess around your leg!”
She ran.
He followed. (Are you getting that whole fairy tale connection? Knight on a white charger equals boy on a bike?)
When he got close enough, he took aim, then let that snake fly. It cartwheeled through the air with deadly accuracy to coil itself around her bare leg.
The boy was almost as shocked as Catherine; he hadn’t expected to hit his target. So to make it up to her, he proposed...and it only took him nine years to do it. She accepted, of course, and they’ve lived happily ever after in their very own castle.
All right. So it’s really a three-bedroom ranch house, but it has an irrigation ditch out back, and that’s practically a moat, right?
Never heard of an arkayess? Neither had Catherine. But on the first day of her visit, she became intimately acquainted with one particularly gruesome member of this species—also known as the road-killed snake. Arkayess. RKS. Road-killed snake. Get it?
She did. The hard way.
Catherine was walking along a side street, minding her own business, when the orneriest boy in town came riding down the road on his bike, swinging a dead snake like a lariat. “You’d better run, kid,” he yelled. “I’m gonna wrap this arkayess around your leg!”
She ran.
He followed. (Are you getting that whole fairy tale connection? Knight on a white charger equals boy on a bike?)
When he got close enough, he took aim, then let that snake fly. It cartwheeled through the air with deadly accuracy to coil itself around her bare leg.
The boy was almost as shocked as Catherine; he hadn’t expected to hit his target. So to make it up to her, he proposed...and it only took him nine years to do it. She accepted, of course, and they’ve lived happily ever after in their very own castle.
All right. So it’s really a three-bedroom ranch house, but it has an irrigation ditch out back, and that’s practically a moat, right?
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April 4, 2012
Rating 3.5
I enjoyed this book quite a bit, the heroine needs a hunk to take as a date to her sister's wedding. Her sister is getting married to her ex-boyfriend of eleven years and even though they didn't share an intimate relationship and she isn't hurt by their upcoming wedding, she is tired of everyone looking at her as if she is someone to be pitied. She has tried all avenues with failure so when her friend sets her up with his college friend she agrees but when she sees the hero she isn't sure, he looks all shabby but she learns it is because he is an undercover cop and then sees he cleans up well.
The hero soon learns she thinks he is gay and his friend tells him to let the deception go since she feels more comfortable around him that way.
We see the hero notice how careful the heroine is around him, how uncomfortable when someone touches her and it remind him of his sister who had a terrible thing happen to her and committed suicide, so he tries to get her to open up to him but she has been keeping things bottled up for so long that it is difficult.
When the truth comes out, I really hurt for the heroine..
I liked the hero Brody he was incredibly patient and sweet. The suspense element also runs across the book, about the robbers and the rapist, with Brody always missing them by a second or clubbed on the head.
The book wasn't that heavy and made for a light read that I ended up liking since the relationship moves almost at a sweet pace and we see Brody who doesn't think he wants marriage after his parents have walked the aisle multiple times, change his mind.
I enjoyed this book quite a bit, the heroine needs a hunk to take as a date to her sister's wedding. Her sister is getting married to her ex-boyfriend of eleven years and even though they didn't share an intimate relationship and she isn't hurt by their upcoming wedding, she is tired of everyone looking at her as if she is someone to be pitied. She has tried all avenues with failure so when her friend sets her up with his college friend she agrees but when she sees the hero she isn't sure, he looks all shabby but she learns it is because he is an undercover cop and then sees he cleans up well.
The hero soon learns she thinks he is gay and his friend tells him to let the deception go since she feels more comfortable around him that way.
We see the hero notice how careful the heroine is around him, how uncomfortable when someone touches her and it remind him of his sister who had a terrible thing happen to her and committed suicide, so he tries to get her to open up to him but she has been keeping things bottled up for so long that it is difficult.
When the truth comes out, I really hurt for the heroine..
I liked the hero Brody he was incredibly patient and sweet. The suspense element also runs across the book, about the robbers and the rapist, with Brody always missing them by a second or clubbed on the head.
The book wasn't that heavy and made for a light read that I ended up liking since the relationship moves almost at a sweet pace and we see Brody who doesn't think he wants marriage after his parents have walked the aisle multiple times, change his mind.
October 6, 2010
Mallory needs a man right away, and not just any man, he's got to be drop-dead-gorgeous and make her sister salivate. Why? Because said sister has stolen her longtime boyfriend and expects kind and understanding Mallory to not only attend the wedding, but to be her maid-of-honor! Mallory is painfully shy around men, but one of her friends introduces her to undercover cop, Brody Hunter. With his long hair, dangerous and stunning looks, he is perfect for the part. And Mallory is told that he's gay, so there is no need to feel insecure around him. Except she does, especially when he insists on going out on "dates" so they can get their act down before the big wedding. She soon wonders if her buddy has lied to her because Brody's acting is becoming quite convincing.
The author hooked me from the first page, creating such lovable characters that I didn't want to put the book down. The story starts out light, sexy and funny, then she adds an ongoing mystery/investigation plot that relies a bit too much on coincidence, but which made for some cute encounters. Despite the suspense thread, the author manages to keep the love story the main focus of the book, which is why it worked so perfectly for me. The characters appear to be your classic mismatch: the shy, frigid schoolteacher and the dark and dangerous cop, but it's quickly revealed that they both have much more depth (and much more in common) than at first glance. A genuine, believable friendship develops before they fall head-over-heels in love. This kind of story wins me over every time! The entire book was a real pleasure to read.
The author hooked me from the first page, creating such lovable characters that I didn't want to put the book down. The story starts out light, sexy and funny, then she adds an ongoing mystery/investigation plot that relies a bit too much on coincidence, but which made for some cute encounters. Despite the suspense thread, the author manages to keep the love story the main focus of the book, which is why it worked so perfectly for me. The characters appear to be your classic mismatch: the shy, frigid schoolteacher and the dark and dangerous cop, but it's quickly revealed that they both have much more depth (and much more in common) than at first glance. A genuine, believable friendship develops before they fall head-over-heels in love. This kind of story wins me over every time! The entire book was a real pleasure to read.
April 26, 2013
I loved this book.
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