Tanya Michaels, Going All the Way

Going All the Way

Tanya Michaels

Harlequin Temptation, Jan 2005, $4.50, 216 pp.

ISBN: 0373692080

David Grant of AGI Voicetech is relocating from Boston to Atlanta. He looks forward to the change because his best friend since they attended Georgia Tech together, Serena Donavan, lives there, but he has other plans for their "platonic" relationship. Last year on a visit to see her, they spent the night making love for the first and only time. He flew back to the northeast on the wings of love, but she left him a terse email that their torrid evening was a mistake. He plans to correct her error.

David begins his campaign to overcome Serena's doubts that they are too different to have a relationship and besides sex destroys friendships, something she does not want to lose although she feels that may have occurred already. He, on the other hand, knows she is the one and, being a member of the determined Savannah Grant brood, will use every trick in the book to persuade her that they can be friends and lovers forever.

GOING ALL THE WAY is a heated, contemporary romance starring two likeable protagonists struggling between friendship and love. David is a wonderful, obstinate lead male who refuses to surrender without a fight while Serena worries that love and sex will destroy their wonderful friendship. Tanya Michaels provides the audience with a heated battle of the sexes with everyone rooting for David to prove he is right for Serena.

Harriet Klausner