Playing Games

Your couch–or mine?

On-air, she's the radio shrink who tells lovelorn listeners to let their hang-ups go. And he's the dark chocolate-voiced caller who makes critical remarks about everything she says. He is so obviously suffering from subconscious Penvy–P meaning professional, of course.

But off the air it's a different story. She's mild-mannered Roxy Rose, who never takes her alter ego's advice and has a libido in urgent need of repair. So thank Sigmund Freud she found "Ned" the handyman as a neighbor. It is rather odd that he doesn't know one end of a wrench from the other–but it's not that "tool" she cares about….

About the author

Starting in non-ficiton, Dianne Drake penned hundreds of articles and seven books under the name JJ Despain. In 2001, she began her romance-writing career with The Doctor Dilemma, published by Harlequin Duets. In 2005, Dianne's first medical romance, Nurse in Recovery was published, and with more than 20 novels to her credit, she has enjoyed writing medical romance for Harlequin Mills & Boon ever since.