From Publishers Weekly
Phillips's latest cheerful romance (
Hot Number;
The Bachelor) relates the opposites-attract sizzle between a sexy, Greek Jersey girl and a buttoned-down Boston lawyer who come together over the fate of a teenage girl. Zoe Costas lives happily with her big, vibrant family, including her 14-year-old foster sister, Sam, in Ocean Isle, N.J., and runs a security firm in Atlantic City. She's about to turn 30, but she's not pining for a man. That is, until Sam's long-lost (and very handsome) uncle Ryan Baldwin appears, just as Zoe's parents are about to finalize the girl's adoption. Sparks fly at cross purposes: Zoe's family adores Sam, but Ryan hopes to restore his niece to the Baldwins, having just discovered her existence. (Sam's deceased mother ran away from home as a teenager.) Zoe's firm investigates the Baldwin family, and she discovers that Sam's keepsake from her mother, an innocuous set of keys, will unlock the mystery of her mother's last days as well as a family secret. Despite conflicting hopes for Sam—on top of a stark culture clash—Zoe and Ryan team up for Sam's best interests, and, of course, for their own inevitable passion. Phillips's light touch assures a happy ending to this diverting beach read.
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Zoe is a security specialist and a member of the eccentric Costas family, which is fostering a child named Sam and hoping to adopt her. Enter Ryan Baldwin, Sam's rich uncle, who has been searching for her. He falls head over heels in love with distrusting Zoe and prickly Sam. When someone attempts to harm Sam, the action revs up and romance flourishes. Bernadette Quigley reads with an upbeat tone and happy-go-lucky charm. When Phillips puts the upper-crust Baldwins face to face with the freewheeling Costas, Quigley creates her characterizations with vocal stereotypes that make the listener smile at the unlikelihood of the story. M.B.K. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine--
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by Carly Phillips
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by Carly Phillips
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