Illusions
Novel, A
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3.8 • 14 Ratings
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
Delaney Westcott is a beautiful career woman in a man's world. Owner and chief asset of a personal security business -- where she guards the rich and famous from the unwanted attention of friends and enemies -- she can take care of herself. Except for the one time she didn't: when she fell headlong for handsome cowboy Jared McCallister, a man she couldn't have.
After it ended suddenly, Delaney threw herself into her work with a fury and intensity calculated to erase every other thought from her mind. And she promised that she'd never let any man touch her so deeply again. Ever.
But when Delaney finds herself in Jared's hometown of Aspen, Colorado, on a dangerous job, she begins to wonder if she is strong enough to refuse him a second time...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestselling romance writer Dailey (Notorious) has ventured into the field of suspense, and the result is an uneasy marriage that honors neither genre. Beautiful security expert Delaney Westcott drinks Scotch and travels in a pinstriped jumpsuit, but beneath the hardboiled facade she seems empty rather than hungry, more clueless than guileless. Although sidekick Riley Owens wears his heart on his ruggedly good-looking sleeve, Delaney takes nearly forever to figure out that he loves her and she loves him. She needs almost as long to realize that movie star Lucas Wayen, who has hired her to save him from the murderous passions of has-been actress Rina Cole, has his own dark secrets. Her gig protecting Luke (while protecting herself from his advances) takes her to Aspen, Colo., which just happens to be the hometown of Jared McAllister, the rancher who'd destroyed her soul seven years earlier. When Delaney accidentally kills Susan St. Jacque, Jared's blackmailing ex-wife, we are meant to wonder who set Delaney up and how she'll fare, but the real question is how Susan avoided being murdered sooner. Dailey, whose Calder family sagas are romantic classics, here seems a generation behind the times. The lapses here remind us that other romance writers have learned to incorporate more complexity, real humor and passion.