Isabel Sharpe Thrill Me

Thrill Me

Isabel Sharpe

Harlequin Blaze, Jun 2005, $4.75, 251 pp.

ISBN: 0373791909

Just in New York from Pine River, Wisconsin where Oshkosh is ten times the size, office assistant to a College Dean May Hope Emerson is to meet Trevor (who she originally met when he visited the college) at the Hush Hotel bar. Instead she encounters male action thriller author Beck Desmond. She is on the rebound from a six year relationship with Dan and his agent demands he learn how to get into the feamle psyche or he will be an ex-writer as his tough as steel hero needs some romancing. After small talk, she checks into the hotel with plans to spend an amourous evening with Beck.

As Beck and May spend time together, their initial attraction ignites into heated passion and finally love. However, he wonders if she using him to get over heartache while she ponders whether he just needs a role model to enable his testosterone champion to meet his feminine side.

This is an engaging torrid contemporary romance starring two likable lead characters who the audience knows belongs together. The secondary cast are nice people hoping Beck has found his true love (after they get an autograph). Isabel Sharpe thrills readers with this fine tale of Wisconsin cheese meeting New York bagel on the streets of Manhattan.

Harriet Klausner