Don’t tell Sailor Boy, but I went book shopping. I’m not allowed. I have stacks of books from BEA that I’m not allowed to read until after my deadline, and then I went on a spree in New York, and my TBR pile is threatening to crash through the floor and into the apartment of the people below us… it’s an addiction.
At first, it was just going to be some category books, on the excuse that if I don’t buy them now, they will disappear and I’ll never be able to find them again (ahem, Grailkeepers series) but then there was this whole buy three get the fourth off table and… well, it got out of hand.
Sadly, I’m not allowed to read any of them. I’m not allowed to read Closer, by Jo Leigh, despite starting it on the Metro ride home and devouring the first 50 pages because Jo, man, can she tell a story. (You have heard me talk about her WWII era romance here before.) I LOVE her Blazes. I read them all, and have, ever since she was one of the launch books. There was this one, I even remember the name — SCENT OF A WOMAN, about this couple who met for anonymous sex in a hotel room, and the only thing the hero knew about this woman was her perfume, and he actually went into stores smelling perfume until he found out which one she used. Now, whenever I see Boucheron, I remember that book.
This one is not about perfume. It’s about a woman, Christie, whose life has been destroyed by the efforts of a stalker, and the Delta-force hero who comes to her rescue and teaches her how to kick some ass. In love already? I sure was.
But wait, there’s more! For those of you who have not yet discovered the magic of a Jo Leigh romance, Jo is giving away one very special copy to someone who posts on my blog. I have decided to make it a contest that Jo will get a kick out of: the winner is first person to correctly answer the following question:
Who was Diana’s favorite character on The X-Files? (one guess per poster)
Win the contest and read the book. Make me jealous because I, alas, cannot read it until I’ve finished SSG2.
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