Flight of the Swan [Paperback]

Since "13 Days of Luck" preceded "Flight of the Swan" it should have its own review. Alas, Amazon screwed up the page for "13 Days," which has NO "review here" to click on. So the "13 Days" review is below this one for "Flight of the Swan."
As only Lacey Dancer can, she introduces this couple to one another in a mysterious, sexy way: the heroine is practicing her diving in a swimming pool and the hero happens to see her. And cannot take his eyes off her. Whew! This is not a stalker scene and avoids the "eeeewwwww" factor some authors might generate.
Turns out the gentleman is a friend and business associate of Joshua Luck (see review below) and Luck, as a mega-rich businessman, must hire a bodyguard/nanny for his twins, so that's where our lovely diver comes in. Since she's voluptuous and/or stacked, she's learned to wear baggy clothing and tone down her sexuality since too many husbands/fathers in her nanny business try to come on to the hired help.
When she and her future squeeze meet they do not know one another, since she never saw the man that she could sense was watching her dive that day. Later in the story, as luck :) would have it, he comes upon her doing her diving in the Lucks' pool and it all clicks into place for him.
They begin going out with one another to jerk Pippa's chain, pretending that they're an item, and the chemistry makes their play-acting a reality. Some villains want to derail Joshua Luck's business plans, so two thugs accost our dating couple, who are more than equal to the task of fighting back. After that attempt fails, the bad guys strike again, but I won't ruin it for you by giving it away.
With strong storytelling and interesting characters whose chemistry fairly leaps off the page, "Flight of the Swan" is a book I've read several times. Just about all of Lacey Dancer's books are keepers.
2ND REVIEW: In "13 Days of Luck," Pippa is a successful author in her late 30s who fancies herself as a matchmaker since she's set up several couples. A true romantic, she believes she is too self-absorbed with her own interests and particularly her writing to devote to a mate.
She meets Joshua Luck on an airplane and is immediately captivated by his sheer physical presence and animal magnetism. Pippa trades seats with someone else in order to get close to him and then tells him she's a novelist and she'd like to get to know him, simply for research purposes. Wink, wink :) Josh is kind of put off by this brazen woman at first but, like everyone else in her orbit, cannot resist the magnetic pull of Pippa.
They begin a hot love affair on board the cruise ship. Pippa meets Josh's brother Joe, who's a psychic. And there she goes matchmaking again, this time setting Joe up with a troubled fellow passenger on board the ship.
This is another steamy Lacey Dancer book. There are others which interconnect that precede and follow this book. "Flight of the Swan" follows Pippa's and Joshua's marriage and she helps set up this couple. "Diamond on Ice," which includes Pippa's nephew and his love interest, precedes "13 Days of Luck." Either "Silent Enchantment" or "Sunlight on Shadows" also preceded "13 Days." Those two titles are too similar for me to remember which is which. There may be more books with Pippa in them, but I can't think of 'em if there are.

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