Too Much Temptation FROM OUR EDITORS
Reader favorite Lori Foster adds the first
full-length contemporary novel to the Brava erotic romance line, and it's a story that's poignant and funny and searingly sexy in all the right places. Breaking his engagement should make a man's life simpler, but for sinfully handsome Noah Harper it meant defying his grandmother, losing his job, and disappointing everyone who thought the bride was his perfect match. Though the breakup wasn't his fault, he agreed to play the gentleman and take the flak for it. After all, he'd lived without his grandmother's approval before; he was wealthy enough not to need the job she'd given him; and, while facing the resulting mix of scandal, disaster, and confusion wasn't exactly fun, freedom from an appalling mismatch was
definitely worth it. The first thing he planned to do was enjoy his freedom -- to find a woman who was willing to pursue
pleasure for its own sake. He never expected his grandmother's sweet, innocent assistant, Grace Jenkins, to rush to his defense -- or to find she had a passionate nature to match his own. Suddenly, freedom is nowhere near as important to Noah as being with Grace -- for her loyalty, love, and luscious womanly curves are Too Much Temptation.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Grace Jenkins has had little experience with menﾽfeeling too awkward and insecure to free the passionate woman inside her. But that hasn't stopped her from dreaming about Noah Harper. Gorgeous, strong and darkly sexy, his rough edge beneath the polish promises no mercy in the bedroom. When Grace learns Noah's engagement has ended in scandal, she shyly offers him her support and her friendship. But Noah's looking for something extra...
Noah wants Grace—badly. He wants to possess those curves that go on forever, to savor her sweet innocence, to take her to the limits of white-hot desire...again and again. What he doesn't want is anything more complicated than that, and he knows Grace is a woman who deserves better. Grace, however, knows exactly what she wants—the kind of ecstasy only Noah can give her. Brazenly, she accepts, and Noah promises to make all her secret fantasies come true...
FROM THE CRITICS
Publishers Weekly
The fact that its contrived plot sounds more like a fabricated story for a sex column in a glossy mag than anything that might happen in the real world pleasingly plump, virginal 25-year-old secretary wins undying lust from her boss's bad-boy grandson does not necessarily diminish the fun to be had in the latest contemporary romance from Foster (Sex Appeal). After Noah Harper finds the fianc e he does not love in bed with another man, he breaks off the engagement, deciding uncomplicated sex is all he needs. Besides, he was marrying Kara only to please his difficult grandmother, Agatha, whose popular Gillespe, Ky., restaurant he manages. Enter Agatha's unassuming secretary, Grace Jenkins. Insecure and inexperienced, but with a huge, unrequited crush on Noah, Grace agrees to Noah's terms: she'll become his sex slave and he'll teach her how to enjoy her body. Of course, the reader knows all along that the two will fall in love; it's merely a question of when they'll realize it themselves and what complications they'll stumble over on the path to knowledge. Billed as "a novel of erotic romance," this is harmless entertainment for readers who favor brisk romps between the sheets with a little story thrown in. It is sure to satisfy Foster's fan base and kudos to her for making a full-figured character the star of the show. (Mar.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
Library Journal
Foster (All Through the Night) is arguably the star of Kensington's steamy erotica imprint, Brava. Not much here plot-wise, but the bedroom action is nonstop. The volatile relationship between Noah Harper and his grandmother Agatha takes a bad turn after he dumps Kara, his handpicked fianc e. When Agatha took in streetwise Noah, one of her son's illegitimate children, she filed off most of his rough edges, but a few linger, infuriating her. Worse, Noah's not saying why he dumped Kara. Enter Grace Jenkins, Agatha's timid but likable and efficient secretary, who's been in love with Noah forever. Virginal Grace agrees to enter into a sexual relationship with him while he licks his wounds. What goes on in the bedroom is hardly kinky, but it's the heart and soul of this novel. Readers will love Gracie, while wincing at her lack of self-confidence, but the end is an anticlimatic no-brainer. The inventive sexual acrobatics, however, will lure the audience. Foster outwrites most of her peers and has a great sense of the ridiculous, but this is probably not the best she's done. She lives in Ohio. Jo Manning, Barry Univ. Lib., Miami Shores, FL Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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