The novella is very very erotic in Anne Stuart's standard. It accounts for a one-night encounter between a formidable assassin and a newspaper reporter. The thing with Anne Stuart that keeps me coming back to her books is her heroes. Uber-alpha seems almost inadequate to describe some of them. Her Archilles' heel however is her heroines. They're usually described as strong and smart women while they oftentimes act to the contrary. Maddy, the heroine of this story, is no exception. In a way to show how smart and perceptive she is, the author makes her do things that are fatally stupid. Fortunately for her this is just a novel. In real life, she'd be dead. And deservedly so.
3/5
Read it yourself.
