Susan Johnson, Hot Property

Hot Property

Susan Johnson

Berkley, Aug 2008, $15.00

ISBN: 9780425221730

Zoe Chandler believes she has enough to write an expose on art collectors. To complete the task, she secludes herself at an isolated lake house.

After watching the abuse by CIA agents in the Balkans especially in Kosovo, former field civilian interpreter Nick Mirovic knows that even after all these years he still suffers from post traumatic stress disorder, albeit the nightmares are less frequent. He avoids the pharmaceutical solution as he felt that messed up his head. Instead he has isolated himself near a remote lake. However, though the hermit tries to distance himself from his beautiful new neighbor, he fails as he wants her. When danger comes stalking their lake as Zoe's art collector portrayal has placed her in peril, Nick's protective juices flow as much as his passions since he met his new neighbor.

Nick is the more fascinating character as his experience in the Balkans still eats at his soul in many ways such as trust issues with other people including the woman he is falling in love with and an obsession to help the underdog. The heat is on figuratively and literally as Susan Johnson provides her fans with a 'Hot Property.'

Harriet Klausner