Susanna Carr, Lip Lock

Lip Lock

Susanna Carr

Brava, Dec 2005, $14.00, 304 pp.

ISBN: 0758210817

Molly Connors salivates over her boss, but knows she must avoid too much contact with Kyle Ashton or he might seduce the truth out of her that her career is built on a mountain of white lies that she hopes to one day soon to move past. However, somehow he knows she is pulling a con though he is not sure of the what and why, but considers industrial espionage though he also wonders why she, like his friend Glenn and others, feel a need to lie to him. Instead of the promotion she yearned for, he stunningly fires her; he feels relieved by doing this because he feared how his body betrayed him whenever Molly was near.

Molly needs time to rebuild her life as she has no paycheck coming in and for that matter no place to live. She decides to temporarily move into a home owned by her former computer guru boss that he never uses. Kyle brings potential clients to spend time at his rarely used house only to find Molly living there. She persuades his guests that she is his fianc e. Unable to resist the libido lure of this siren, Kyle intends to spend the weekend with Molly and let his clients fend for themselves.

Though Molly's desperate antics seem over the top, readers will find it amusing once she and Kyle fake an engagement. The inane light-hearted story line is fun and some of the antics that the lead female does will have readers laughing out loud. LIP LOCK is an amusing contemporary romance starring a likable worried heroine and a bewildered computer hunk.

Harriet Klausner