Under the Boardwalk
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4.2 • 55 Ratings
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Her twin sister is missing.
When Ariana Costas heard her twin sister, Zoe, had disappeared, Ari left Vermont and returned to her Jersey girl roots to find her. Ari didn’t know what to expect from her search, but danger around every corner, dodging bullets, and a hunk in a leather jacket saving her was not it.
He thought she was someone else.
Detective Quinn Donovan thought he located Zoe Costas. Beautiful, dark haired and a perfect match to the description he’d been given, he believes he has his lady. Except as it turns out, the gorgeous woman is Zoe’s twin Ariana, the college professor. Suddenly, Quinn’s job is more about trying to protect Ari who is in trouble deeper than the Atlantic at high tide. There’s more at stake than trying to protect her without spilling his well-guarded secrets.
Will he lose his heart and the girl in the process?
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Ariana Costas, the heroine of Phillips's (The Heartbreaker, etc.) featherweight confection, is a Jersey girl with a wacky family who quickly gets caught up in some potentially dangerous hijinks. Sound familiar? Despite the parallels, Ariana is no Stephanie Plum. Rather, she's a confused, repressed psychology professor who feels like a misfit in her family of eccentrics. But when she learns that her twin sister, Zoe, has gone missing, she reluctantly returns to her family home just outside of Atlantic City. Shortly thereafter, she's shot at and saved by gorgeous undercover police detective Quinn Donovan, who tells her, in no uncertain terms, that Zoe is fine and that she should hightail it out of town for her sister's safety and her own. Instead, Ariana decides to don Zoe's miniskirt and do some sleuthing at the casino where Zoe worked. When Ariana isn't poking around the casino or heating up the pages with Quinn, she's trying to talk some sense into her parents, a pair of lovable Addams family look-alikes who are plotting their next money-making scheme. Phillips's passive prose prevents her protagonists from growing beyond their prescribed roles, and her ham-handed humor contributes little to the story (Ariana's family owns a monkey named Spank, which naturally leads to exchanges like this one Ariana: "Spank who?"; her mother: "Spank the monkey!"). Nevertheless, Phillips's tale is loaded with enough sexual pyrotechnics to light a fire under her fans.
Customer Reviews
Entertaining and steamy
Ariana (Ari) Costas is a college professor, add in that she comes from Greek heritage, has a twin sister Zoe and for me I just knew that I was in for an entertaining read. Having grown up with close family friends that are Greek, I knew that when you are friends with one of the family then the WHOLE family becomes involved in your business.
Detective Quinn Donovan takes one glance at Ari and mistakenly believes she is Zoe. Realizing that she is in fact Zoe’s twin, he knows that he must do his best to protect her after Ari rushes back home when she learns that Zoe has disappeared.
Quinn is undercover at the Casino that Ari has managed to get a job at since she is determined to get to the bottom of her sister’s disappearance. What follows is a story with mystery, suspense and I was on the edge of my seat at times as I read Under The Boardwalk. This story also has some humor and steamy scenes that will draw you in and keep you invested.
Can Quinn solve the case, keep Ari safe and cope with quirky characters and an over the top Greek family that have no hesitation in butting in? One click and find out.
Entertaining
4.5 Stars for Under the Boardwalk (Costas Sisters #1) When I heard we were getting a new series from Ms Phillips I got very excited and Under the Boardwalk is the perfect start, this is a very different type of read to what I expect from this author but it was an enjoyable and captivating read. This book ticked all my boxes, it’s got the perfect mix of suspense, mystery, humour and passion, it has characters you can relate to and lots of sizzling chemistry and witty banter. Ari Costas and Detective Quinn Donovan’s Story intrigued me, I was drawn in by the suspense and I swooned at the romance, I was kept on the edge of my seat as I got to know the quirky characters and theIr over the top Greek family. I highly recommend this gem of a read.