3 stars is what I give a book I feel sort of "it was okay, but I don't really remember much about it" about. And "clumsy heroine" is where I shelve books with heroines that ping my "Oh, right, she's SO INCREDIBLE even though there's not really any evidence of that" feels. Premise: hero is some ri...
Josie is sick and tired of being with beige men. Her last boyfriend Curtis was beige, in everything he did. Mack has been one of her best friends for years, and when he spies a list she made with her other best friend, and Mack's sister Sal (Sally), listing all the sorts of sexual things and po...
The crosstown traffic, always awful at this hour, had been compounded by an afternoon storm that had brought down trees and messed with traffic lights. Unfortunately, it hadn’t done much to relieve the stifling humidity. Remnants of the storm rumbled and sizzled in the heavy clouds overhead as Ma...
Wandering through the ritzy New York gallery surrounded by a crowd of A-listers who blinged and glittered so much it hurt her eyes, she was stopped in her tracks by its starkness. The background murmur of voices and clinking of champagne glasses faded as the world shrank t...
She was wearing her regulation black skinny jeans tucked into knee-high boots. Where the fuck were her Docs? Dash dragged his gaze off her boots and that ass with difficulty then threw back the rest of his drink. He did not need Little Miss Nudie Pic in his apartment tonight. &n...
She needed to sleep. She wanted her bed. In fact she was already on sandman autopilot just putting one foot in front of the other, counting down the minutes until her head could hit the pillow. The day had been emotionally draining and right now she felt as if she could sleep for a week. It took ...
It wouldn’t have mattered so much had Steffy been able to concentrate instead on the proposal for the new magazine direction, but that had been impossible too. All her thoughts had been preoccupied with the gala, with seeing Bill socially. Outside the safety of their colleagues-only work environm...
Today that doom stormed towards him on a pair of legs that wouldn’t quit and a ball-breaking attitude that was guaranteed to ruin his last day on the job. Ava Kelly might be one of the world’s most beautiful women but she redefined the term diva. Do...
Nathaniel would be keen to get back to London and to his busy-tycoon persona. And there were three ways she figured he’d handle the complication of her. Option one. Be appalled at what had happened last night and seek to assure her it had been a moment of madness that Must...
She couldn’t go out now. Not after… Em, who had conveniently forgotten how many times she’d curled up in bed and cried for days after her succession of breakups, hadn’t been impressed with Harper cancelling. “Trust me on this. Staying at home and wa...
A light breeze ruffled her utilitarian locks and she had to shake herself to believe she was actually sitting on her ex-husband’s deck, drinking wine. The whole scene felt surreal. Jean’s dementia had dragged her reluctantly into her past. A time when things had been simpl...
It was a slow realisation. A creeping awareness of the jut of her hips in his palms, the weight of her head against his shoulder, the slight brush of her lips against his collarbone as her breathing returned to normal. He shifted slightly and murmured, ‘I guess there is one advantage to having a ...
Crap. It didn’t look good. It was some kind of four-wheel drive vehicle, but there were no recognisable markings left on the car. The paintwork had blistered and bubbled until it was indiscernible, the number plate was unreadable, the tyres were blown and still smoking, the windscreen had shatter...
Faith said the next day as her father shuffled into the kitchen around eight thirty. He was dressed for the day but Faith was still in her pajamas and fluffy slippers and on her third cup of coffee as she sat at the table sketching her umpteenth version of Raf’s hands. Hands she was hoping he’d b...
‘Shh,’ she hissed. ‘Don’t be preposterous.’ Diana laughed. ‘Methinks the lady doth protest too much.’ Stella turned back to the sink, busying herself with washing out her wine glass. ‘There are some similarities...’ she admitted. ‘Similarities?’ Diana hooted. ‘I knew I kne...
She didn’t need her psychic powers to know that anything with Brisbane City Council on it was not going to be good news and she almost gave it back to Genghis for annihilation by slobber. One of them might as well get pleasure out of the damned thing. Unfortunately she didn’t think the council wo...
‘Prince Khalid bin Aziz wants Finn Kennedy and only Finn Kennedy to do his quadruple bypass and he’s going to donate another million dollars to the hospital to show his appreciation. Sydney Harbour Hospital needs him, Evie. Where is he?’ ‘I don’t know,’ Evie said staring out of her father’s offic...
‘I’m going to go and check on my patient.’‘That’s very dedicated of you,’ Mia teased, wishing both he and Carl would leave so she could drag Luca into the nearest dark corner and have him finish what he started, instead of taunting her in secret with those very clever fingers.But she’d soon learn...
They sucked on thick shakes as they adjusted to the unexpected development. ‘It’s going to be fine,’ Patrick said, placing his hand over hers and giving it a squeeze. He’d said it at least a dozen times now but Miranda didn’t look any more convinced. &nbs...