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Looks Are Deceiving
Michele Hart
Siren Publishing
May 2008
ISBN#: 1-60601-045-X
Erotic
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Synopsis:
All shadows and mystery, Elissa Baker’s destiny with the scum of the
Earth is a guarded confidence. Only Greg can wreck her long-laid path by
being Mister Right and refusing to let her go.
Restauranteur Greg Moretti is crazy in love with a woman who leads a
smoke-and-mirrors life. He’ll fix that by cooking up some heat, triggering
some hunger, and melting the ice-wall of secrets around her world. Elissa
will have to choose, Greg or the criminal world. Good boys can be bad too,
and lethal to the heart.
The serendipitous solution to the cold-case murder of Greg’s father leads
somewhere he’d never anticipated. Who invited organized crime?
When the Mob takes his dessert-kissed goddess from his house, Greg couldn’t
have guessed someone would die, and no one had a clue what Elissa could do.
Everything changes with the pull of a trigger, and Greg loses Elissa to her
fate and a badge. Nothing looks the same after this…
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SRR GRADE: B
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Looks are Deceiving is in itself a deceit. It
starts out lighthearted with a prank being pulled by three lifelong friends
on a fourth. They seek and out and proposition the most unattractive female
they can find and offer to pay her to go on a date with their friend, Greg
Moretti. Being a broke student, who is seriously debating if she can afford
real ketchup, Elissa takes them up on their offer. The joke is on the three
when Elissa shows up for her date and is a bombshell. They caught her at her
worst after a long day of yard work.
Enter Greg. He’s the fortunate recipient of his friends blind date prank.
She instantly attracts him, but he has no time for a relationship. He’s
running the family business and trying to solve the murder of his father.
What I thought would be a fun read turned out to be a darn good mystery. The
dialogue and attraction between Greg and Elissa was intriguing. Neither
wanted or was ready for a relationship, but couldn’t help themselves. Added
in, Greg proposed that they keep fooling his friends so Elissa could get the
money from the bet that originated the prank in the first place, and to
prove a lesson to his friends. This added another dimension to the story.
As with any romance, each has their secrets, and they must out in the end.
Both had good reasons for keeping them, and I appreciated how they handled
themselves. Secondary characters were well-written, and I liked the
storylines that followed them.
Definitely a read worth picking up.
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Christine |
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