Sizzling
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Publisher Description
Sizzling
Susan Mallery
Reid Buchanan was always a fan favourite on the baseball diamond. But between the sheets?
A spiteful article about the former pitcher and current playboy questions his talent in the bedroom. And the newspaper is just the first bad news. Reid's grandmother's broken hip means she needs constant care, but Reid hires Nurses 1 and 2 for their bedside manner with him. So for Number 3 he chooses Lori Johnston, the first candidate who seems immune to his charm.
Lori's never wasted her time with amoebas like Reid Buchanan. So why are her defences starting to crumble under the force of his sexy smile? There's only one explanation for the feelings flaring between them–chemistry. Chemistry so hot, it's sizzling!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Mallery's latest spicy saga of the Buchanan family, Seattle's most prominent restaurateurs, doesn't quite measure up to the pleasures of her last (Irresistible), but makes a tasty dish nonetheless. This entry features Reid Buchanan, a womanizing former baseball hero trying to clean up his tarnished image after an embittered reporter he slept with publishes a tell-all newspaper article headlined, "Good in bed? Not so much." With the media hot on his tail, Reid takes refuge at the family estate, where his cantankerous grandmother, Gloria, is recovering from a series of debilitating illnesses. Gloria's as mean-spirited as Reid remembers, but now she's got to deal with peppy home-care nurse Lori Johnson, who's determined to turn Gloria's life around. Lori does her best to ignore Reid arrogant, self-centered and "fifteen kinds of gorgeous" knowing that even if she were attracted to him (which of course she is) he wouldn't look twice at a plain Jane like her. While Mallery's prose is luscious and provocative, and her characters worth following from book to book, fans may be disappointed when Lori resorts to expensive haircuts and fashion makeovers to catch her man. An intriguing backstory involving Reid's half-sister Dani and her search for her birth father should leave readers impatient for the next entry's July 2007 release.
