Vicki Lewis Thompson Talk Nerdy to Me

Talk Nerdy to Me

Vicki Lewis Thompson

St. Martin's, Feb 2006, $6.99, 368 pp.

ISBN: 0312939078

While riding his Harley to go and shoot pool at the nearby Rack and Balls in Middlesex, Connecticut, electrical engineer Charlie Shepherd hears the explosion in his new neighbor's garage. He goes to ensure no one is hurt; inside a female insists she is okay. He remains concerned that the New York model, who moved next door to him, rejects his pleas to call 911, but Eve Dupree does agree to shoot pool with him. He is the best in town until she wins their wager rather easily. However, Charlie handles his defeat gracefully, even though he feels he was handicapped by his wood. He becomes upset when his cousin Rick Banister of the modelling world arrives, but Eve showers her attention on the engineer, to his shock and euphoria.

Eve needs his help with her inventions, while Charlie desires her but is heading to Hoover Dam for his next job. As he cannot resist her lure and helps her with her gizmo's, someone hovers in the background ready to sabotage any device that appears ready for the experimental design stage. At the same time the kisses between the ingenious model and the engineering nerd send both to the moon without a craft.

The fifth NERD GONE WILD romance is a fun, often amusing romantic suspense, with beauty needing to show her brains while Nerdy needs to simply be with her. The storyline is terrific when Charlie behaves as a NERD IN SHINING ARMOR, and Eve chooses GONE WITH THE NERD over the hunks from her modeling world. The sabotage intrigue provides action, but that seems forced, especially in a tale when the model relishes her beloved talk nerdy to her in the bedroom and the garage.