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(Very highly recommended) Four years after his divorce and sexy Cade Douglas still goes home alone. So when a sensually delightful woman presents herself, he cannot resist the invitation to her room. Even as he realizes he is not the man she requires, Cade cannot walk away from such a luscious opportunity. He promises her to explain when they meet a second time, but the outraged Ryan has her own plans. Realizing her mistake, Ryan seduces Cade into allowing her tie him to the bedposts, takes her pleasure, and leaves him partially bound and his clothes lying in a tub of water. Of course they meet again weeks later, in a professional environment, and then things get real interesting! You've got to love a woman daring enough to use a man for her pleasure and then leave him bound to the bedposts. Of course he can eventually free himself, but not until she's made her point. Moreover, you've also got to love a man so determined to satisfy! Ryan and Cade are the kinds of characters romance readers adore, showing tremendous growth and change, hearts of gold, and a real pizzazz for sensuality. Secondary characters likewise sparkle. Ryan's gravelly-voiced agent and her new love will bring smiles as well. Debut author Kristin Hardy's own impetuously spontaneous nature dazzles in My Sexiest Mistake. She admits My Sexiest Mistake was inspired by her attendance at a writers' conference. She plotted out this Blaze novel on the plane home and wrote the draft of Chapter One that night. Harlequin wisely bought this outstanding new voice, and her subsequent three book will be released by Blaze in 2003. Hardy is definitely a rising star to watch for. My Sexiest Mistake comes very highly recommended. Sensual
Romance Reviews Her agent tells her if she really desires to switch careers, she needs sexual experience. Her only encounter was almost a decade ago and that was not anything to write home about let alone use in a sexy novel. She hires a stud, but errs and ends up in the wrong bed, that of lonely divorcee Bostonian Cade Douglas. Unable to resist the lure of a score, Cade fails to tell his hostess the truth until their next encounter. An irate Ryan realizes she has been had. She seduces Cade senseless, ties him to the bedposts, and has her way with him before leaving him to his own devices. However, a few weeks later, they meet in a corporate boardroom. Though Ryan may struggle with turning on the heat in her novels, debut author Kristin Hardy does not seem to have that problem as she enflames the pages of her tale. Romance readers will positively relish Ryan's turning the tables, or is the sheets, on Ryan. Though the hiring of a male stud may turn off some readers, most fans of the Blaze imprint will enjoy the gender war between two wonderful protagonists. --Harriet Klausner All
About Romance And it starts off with a real bang...er, make that an auto-bang. Corporate trainer Ryan Donnelly is beginning to fret that she's never going to reach her goal of becoming a full-time romance writer, because she just can't get that requisite hot love scene to come alive, and an episode of fantasizing and...ahem...self-gratification just isn't doing the trick. When her agent Helene suggests that Ryan hire a gigolo to help her past this roadblock, Ryan at first balks, but eventually goes along with it. She walks into the agreed-upon meeting place - the bar of a swanky hotel - and meets the gorgeous man she thinks is her hired date. Cade Douglas has stopped for a celebratory, and solitary, drink after closing the deal that will fund his web-based startup business. When a hot babe comes on to him, he ignores some of her more cryptic remarks and accepts her invitation to go upstairs. It's only after they're in the hotel room that Cade discovers who - or what - Ryan thinks he really is, but rather than enlighten her, he goes along with the charade. Things get hot and heavy, but the couple stops short of intercourse, due to lack of a condom. They agree to meet at another hotel the next night, and Cade tells Ryan he won't even charge extra for it. Such a gentleman, huh? But before their date, Ryan discovers that Cade is not, in fact, the hired escort, and she vows revenge, while still ensuring she'll get total satisfaction out of the evening. Her method of stranding him in the hotel room is truly ingenious, and she thinks that's the end of that chapter of her life: she got the inspiration she needed for her book, and now she can go back to her regularly scheduled life. She's in for a big shock, though, since Cade's company has hired the firm that employs Ryan to develop training materials, and she's the designated liaison. Cade hasn't been able to forget their wild night, and wants more from Ryan than a one-night stand, but he knows he can't make a full commitment to her or anyone. Ryan resists as long as she can, then comes to Cade with a proposition that they be lovers and nothing else. After all, it's only sex they want from each other, right? Ryan is very likable; she's strong, independent, intelligent, and seems real. She has a job and friends and hobbies and a family (although I have to say that her Irish Catholic parents seemed a lot more blasé about her having a sexual relationship than mine would have been!). When Cade decides to break off the relationship for the flimsiest reason, she doesn't hesitate to call him on it, letting him know how stupid she thinks his reason is (for the record, this reader agreed with her). Cade was a little more problematic for me. He's one of those "oh, my family is so screwed up I'll never get married" heroes, and it took a stretch for me to accept his reason for not setting Ryan straight about his identity from the start. After a while, though, as the story began to flow I got to like and understand him better. Hardy (who debuts with this book) does a good job of creating a realistic world of work for both Ryan and Cade and integrating their professions into the plot, instead of merely using it as a nebulous backdrop. But what really clicked for me was the humor. Parts of the book are laugh-out-loud funny, especially the couple's first meeting, where there are really two conversations going on. There's also a scene that has to be the funniest instance of trystus interruptus I've run across in a long time. Although there was a little too much head-hopping for my taste, the strength of the story and characterization kept me reading until, before I knew it, I'd reached the satisfying end of this solidly-written book. For a quick, entertaining read, pick up My Sexiest Mistake. You won't be making one yourself. -- Nora Armstrong
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