Marisa Carroll Breaking All the Rules

Breaking All the Rules

Marisa Carroll

Harlequin Mediterranean Nights, Sep 2007, $5.50

ISBN: 9780373389636

Sports reporter Lola Sandler has mixed feelings about losing out on a big story back home as she sails down the Mediterranean on the cruise ship Alexandra's Dream celebrating her mom's sixty-fifth birthday. On the one hand she would like to cover the story involving her former husband, but she needs to be there for mom too.

However, she is stunned as also on board is Eric Lashman, who's thought of with notables like Judge Crater and Jimmy Hoffa. Four years ago he was at the front of the pack competing in the final round of the Masters Tournament when he left to vanish into legend. Although she wants to interview him to learn why he gave up on winning the green jacket, she instead ends up making love with him. However, when he learns she is a journalist, he assumes she prostituted herself like reporters do so he wants nothing further to do with her even if they soared like eagles on their first hole together as he assumes she is a double bogie.

This is a fabulous Mediterranean cruise romance as the lead couple fall in love on Alexandra's Dream (see THE TYCOON'S SON by Cindy Kirk), but once he learns she is his "natural" enemy being a reporter, his deep feelings becomes a sand trap. The story line is fast-paced due to the changing relationship between the lead couple. As fans wonder why Eric vanished from Augusta to teach golf on a cruise ship, readers will also wonder if the romance between him and Lola will prove sub-par for the course.

Harriet Klausner