- Hardcover: 263 pages
- Publisher: Doubleday (Jan 1 1992)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 038542289X
- ISBN-13: 978-0385422895
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.3 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 590 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,541,478 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
This steamy romance by a master of the genre sandwiches sex, implicit and explicit, between thin layers of plot. Psychologist Serena Sheridan returns to her family's plantation in South Louisiana after her ailing but feisty grandfather has gone missing for one week. To guide her through the hazardous Atchafalaya swamp toward her grandfather's presumed hideout, she hires Etienne "Lucky" Doucet ("a prime example of the male animal"). The diamond-in-the-rough Cajun has an electrifying effect on polished Serena, and before long the shivering, tingling and verbal sparring lead to lovemaking. Eros doesn't keep them from their task, however, and the two uncover a far-ranging conspiracy. The story line and the protagonists are standard issue, but Hoag ( Magic ) evokes the pungent atmosphere of the bayou in fine detail, drawing exotic local flora and alligator-infested waters, and carefully reproducing lilting Cajun idioms.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
Second hardcover romance (Magic, 1990--not reviewed) from veteran author Hoag--a steamy, modern romance set in the Louisiana bayou country. When Serena Sheridan leaves her psychotherapy practice in Charleston and returns home for a vacation, she finds that her twin sister is planning to sell the family estate to an oil company as a way of financing her husband's political career and that her grandfather has retreated into the swamp in protest. Serena hires Lucky Doucet--a devastatingly handsome Cajun (she thinks of him as ``a devil on steroids'')--to help her find the old man. Though at first put off by his macho manner, Serena succumbs quickly to Lucky's prowess in the bedroom. But great sex does not a relationship make; Lucky's troubled and bitter past keep him from offering Serena anything more than his magnificent body. Meanwhile, Serena becomes more deeply embroiled in her own sea of troubles, which include dealing with her willful grandfather, an unscrupulous representative from the oil company, and the seething resentment of her sister. The plot culminates in an attempt on Serena's life- -engineered by her brother-in-law--from which Lucky rescues her in the nick. Lots of sex, just the right amount of suspense, and a sassy, crackling prose style--in a romance that should more than satisfy devotees of the genre. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Very Lucky To Read...,
By Bubbles (United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lucky's Lady (Mass Market Paperback)
I was very lucky to pick this novel up at the airport two months ago and read it on my plane trip. I have been a fan of Hoag's books for years but I had never read Lucky's Lady. I was in the for the surprise of my life when I began reading and this has become my favorite Hoag book.Lucky's Lady tells the tale of Serena Seridian's return to her home for a visit and her strange meeting with the roughest man in the town, Lucky Doucet. Though these two seem to hate each other, the tension between them couldn't be cut with a knife. However, the story of these two unlike people falling in love does not come without a price as Serena's sister, Shelby, plans to get rid of the family estate and declare their grandfather incompetent. The reasoning for all of this becomes more apparent as the novel progresses and soon Serena finds herself seeking Lucky's help to save not only her family estate but the swamps of bayou Louisiana and even her life. This book is one that cannot be put down and is charged with its hot romance, mystery, betrayal, haunting notions from the past, murder, and more.
1.0 out of 5 stars
A completer Disappointment,
By Farida Jaffer (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lucky's Lady (Paperback)
I have enjoyed her other books, somehow Romance does not go well with her. I was so disappointed, I am still reading it but just because I don't have anything else to read.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Loved it....,
This review is from: Lucky's Lady (Mass Market Paperback)
I picked up this book with trepidation. Not a big thriller reader, this book was recommended to me as it is one of Hoag's earlier works where she had just started to branch into the suspense genere. With romance still on the front burner, this book held me from the first page to the last.Lucky Doulcet knows exactly what the Sheridan twins are like. He's had his fill of one and there's no way he's going to get involved with another. Shelby Sheridan was the person that sent him on his path to self destruction and he wasn't giving up what peace he found to get involved with her twin, Serena, no matter how much he lusted after her. Dr. Serena Sheridan had come home to Lousiana from Charleston for a vacation, finding the family plantation in an uproar. Her grandfather has retreated to his cabin in his beloved swamp, her sister, Shelby, seems more malicious than ever, and to top it all off, there's Lucky. All she wanted was a guide to take her into the swamp that she fears with every breath in her body. She gets much more than she bargained for. If you enjoy Hoag's thrillers, you most likely won't like this book. I think that is why it is getting unfavorable reviews, because readers are expecting more thriller and no romance, where this is more a romantic suspense (more romance than suspense). I will read more of Hoag's books, but as I'm not a thriller reader, I won't be picking up her latest. Happy reading!
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