Friday, June 14, 2002
ROMANCES
Plumley, Lisa Falling for April Zebra, 2002. ISBN 0821771116
Playboy Ryan Forrester, heir to the San Diego Forrester Department store chain, is jilted, stood up at the altar. He decides to assuage his grief by buckling down and learning the family business. He mounts a community relation campaign in Saguaro Vista, AZ, the home of the original Forrester’s. He crosses paths with April Finnegan who is also pursuing the local merchants in the name of community relations for her boss’ bakery, Ambrosia; her task to prove she is not one of the “flighty Finnegans”. A wager is made, sparks fly, and after the requisite trials and tribulations the two discover both truths about themselves and that they are soul mates. ***
Brockman, Susan Unsung Hero Ivy Books, 2000 ISBN 080411952X
Navy SEAL Tom Paoletti is home on convalescent leave in Baldwin’s Bridge, MA after a hostage rescue goes awry in the Middle East. He meets up with his unfulfilled high school love, Dr. Kelley Ashton, a pediatrician splitting her time between her practice in Boston, and her care of her terminally ill father who is best friends with Tom’s Uncle Joe. Together they take care of her father, his uncle, and with some help from the two WWII buddies, Tom’s niece and her boyfriend, and a few of Tom’s SEAL team on vacation ; attempt to foil a terrorist plot to blow up the local hotel during a WWII celebration. Sexy trysts, lots of secrets and true love overcoming all obstacles. ****
Plumley, Lisa Falling for April Zebra, 2002. ISBN 0821771116
Playboy Ryan Forrester, heir to the San Diego Forrester Department store chain, is jilted, stood up at the altar. He decides to assuage his grief by buckling down and learning the family business. He mounts a community relation campaign in Saguaro Vista, AZ, the home of the original Forrester’s. He crosses paths with April Finnegan who is also pursuing the local merchants in the name of community relations for her boss’ bakery, Ambrosia; her task to prove she is not one of the “flighty Finnegans”. A wager is made, sparks fly, and after the requisite trials and tribulations the two discover both truths about themselves and that they are soul mates. ***
Brockman, Susan Unsung Hero Ivy Books, 2000 ISBN 080411952X
Navy SEAL Tom Paoletti is home on convalescent leave in Baldwin’s Bridge, MA after a hostage rescue goes awry in the Middle East. He meets up with his unfulfilled high school love, Dr. Kelley Ashton, a pediatrician splitting her time between her practice in Boston, and her care of her terminally ill father who is best friends with Tom’s Uncle Joe. Together they take care of her father, his uncle, and with some help from the two WWII buddies, Tom’s niece and her boyfriend, and a few of Tom’s SEAL team on vacation ; attempt to foil a terrorist plot to blow up the local hotel during a WWII celebration. Sexy trysts, lots of secrets and true love overcoming all obstacles. ****
