Bit by the Bug
Michelle M. Pillow
Cheek, February 2007, $12.95
ISBN: 0352340843

Beatrice Matthew believes she should go on separate vacations with her adult daughters; the current trek is with New York based photographer Katarina in Vale, Colorado. There Kat meets wealthy Vincent and Mimi Richmond, who offer her a strange deal. In exchange for having a showing of her photos at prestigious Faux Pas, they want her to date (perhaps even deflower) their thirty-five year old reticent reclusive son Vincent III. Though she has a boyfriend back home, actor Jack Knight, she agrees to date the heir.

Kat visits Vincent's place of work, the DJP Scientific Department of Entomological Research, where she meets his assistant Margaret, as she quits, saying he is difficult. Vincent thinks Kat is Margaret, as he fails to recognize she is not his assistant, in spite of seeing pink hair for the first time. She tells him she is not his assistant; they negotiate a deal leading to his hiring her, though she is a camera bug not a creepy-crawly bug. As they become acquainted over bugs, make that insects, they fall in love. However, she knows she owes him the truth, but fears he will reject his beloved "Butterfly".

BIT BY THE BUG is a wonderful erotic romance starring an absent minded professor and the artist who falls in love with him. The amusing story line is funny, whimsical and hot from the Vail opening to the final revelations. Sub-genre fans will enjoy this fine heated contemporary due to the lead couple, while seeking other pillow romances.