Monday, October 6, 2008

Flat-Out Sexy-Erin McCarthy

Flat-Out Sexy
Erin McCarthy
Berkley, Nov 2008, $14.00
ISBN: 9780425224076

Widow Professor Tamara Briggs raises her two children in quiet safe environs. After her husband died in a fiery NASCAR accident, she vowed to keep her kids safe and her heart too.

Driver Elec Monroe has had his fill of groupies. Instead he wants Tamara even if she is a few years older than him and he even likes her two kids. He scores with her in the tryst of a lifetime, but she obstinately refuses his efforts to shift their relationship beyond a one night stand into first gear as he is a dreaded driver like her children’s late dad. He begins a campaign that NASCAR would love as a victory to him is winning Tamara’s heart permanently.

The opening line by Tamara’s friend Suzanne sets the stage of an engaging often humorous contemporary romance when she says Tamara’s boyfriend anthropology Professor Geoffrey Ayers has less testosterone than a teenage girl. The story line accelerates from that terrific observation and never slows down as Elec tries to keep up with his racing heart to win the greatest prize of all, the love of a lifetime while his checkered flag in this race is an obstinate single mom.

Harriet Klausner

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