Shannon Hollis, On the Loose

On the Loose

Shannon Hollis

Harlequin Blaze, Feb 2005, $4.75, 247 pp.

ISBN: 0373791747

In San Francisco, Lauren Massey and her two best friends attend a lock and key charity event. Lauren plans to write an article on speed dating for her column "Lorelei on the Loose" in the Inside Out Paper. Her "date" turns out to be Left Coast author Josh McCrea. Afterward, he writes an article Almost Sex.

Though she had planned to write such an article and Josh did not use her name, she is angry with him for using their evening for others to read about it. Still, they are attracted to one another from the moment he had the key to her lock although Josh is shook that he may have met the "One" he has waited for. Now he must persuade Lauren they belong together. He knows how much she desires to write for his more prestigious publication, but worries how she will react when she learns he hid from her that he owns one third.

ON THE LOOSE, the second Lock and Key tale (see HARD TO HANDLE by Jamie Denton), is a lighthearted romp starring two likable writers falling in love. The storyline is as amusing as it is blazing because Josh and Lauren passionately desire one another yet wonder, could love at last have arrived? This lead couple makes the frolic fun and leaves the audience on a SLOW RIDE waiting for Carrie Alexander to lock the door to this humorous miniseries.

Harriet Klausner