Joan Elizabeth Lloyd Hot Summer Nights

Hot Summer Nights

Joan Elizabeth Lloyd

Kensington, May 2007, $15.00

ISBN: 0758212763

Leslie Morgan enjoys working at Manhattan's Club Fantasy even though many would condemn her as a high priced call girl. However, as much as she enjoys her position, she feels a desperate need for time away from the club and the customers. She rents a cottage in Sound End, Connecticut for the summer.

At South End, Leslie meets vacationing New York police officer, Brad DeVane. They are attracted to one another from the start. As their relationship grows, they fall in love, but for the first time in her life Leslie is afraid, perhaps even a bit ashamed, to tell her beloved what she does for a living for fear he will condemn and scorn her before leaving her.

This is a well written contemporary romance starring two beguiling lead characters whose steamy relationship makes for loving HOT SUMMER NIGHTS once they leave behind the overwhelming spoonfuls of support characters stuck in the summer in the city. The intriguing element to this fine tale is Leslie's secret that she conceals from her beloved because she believes once he learns what she does for a living he will dump her.

Harriet Klausner