Nevertheless, with her third seriously pleasing hardcover-bright, funny, sexy, and wise-it’s time to welcome Crusie into the pantheon of top-flight romance writers. Into this jokey, soft-core mix, Crusie inserts modern-romance’s de-rigueur murder and hometown violence, the working out of which threatens to derail her plot as well as the appeal of roadside America. Crusie seems to have perfected the fan-delighting art of erotic, comic, and yet homey sex, with the understanding that the head-banging sex is made possible by that head-banging other word: love. Sophie hasn’t had any good “head-banging sex” in quite a while, if ever, and is inspired by Phin’s technique, using their love scenes as a template for Clea’s video. Phin, immediately taken with Sophie’s lower lip, seduces her with promises of slightly kinky sex. These rather boring proceedings are presided over by Phineas Tucker, whose silly name hides a really hunky “town boy”-a single father who owns the local bookstore. In the upright town of Temptation, the major bones of contention appear to be the painting of the water tower, which looks like a large erect phallus, and the ordering of new streetlights. Their father, a guy with a long rap sheet, is permanently on the lam. After her mother’s death, she raised her sister and her brother, Davy, who now specializes in parting shady businessmen from their dubious gains.
Sophie is one of the only honest, if repressed, members of a family of charming cons and thieves. Sophie Dempsey, the “daughter of a thousand felons,” and her sister, Amy, come to the town of Temptation, Ohio, to film an “audition tape” for Clea Whipple, a local girl turned porn star whose anchorman husband has run off with her inheritance and refuses to give it back.
163, etc.), then romance readers may begin to crowd the highways. All hell breaks loose in Temptation as Sophie and Phin fall deeper and deeper in trouble.and in love.If small towns are filled with heroes like Crusie’s (Crazy for You, p. They both get more than they bargained for when Sophie's video causes an uproar and the proper citizens of Temptation set out to shut them down.Īs event spiral out of control, Sophie and Phin find themselves caught in a web of gossip, blackmail, adultery, murder, and really excellent sex. All Phin wants to do is play pool with the police chief and keep things peaceful. And when she has a run-in with the town's unnervingly sexy mayor, Phineas Tucker, making a little movie turns out to be more than a little dangerous.Īll Sophie wants to do is film the video and head home.
From the moment she drive into town, she gets a bad feeling Sophie is from the wrong side of the tracks and everything in Temptation is a little too right. Sophie Dempsey is content living a quiet life filming wedding videos until an assignment brings her to Temptation, Ohio.
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