Body Heat [Import] [Paperback]

Carly Phillips (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 250 pages
• Publisher: HQN books (2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0263828816
• ISBN-13: 978-0263828818
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,632,286 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

New York Times bestselling author Carly Phillips tossed away her legal briefs and a career as an attorney to become a stay at home mom. Within the year, she turned her love of reading into an obsession with writing. Over 25 published novels later, Carly writes sexy contemporary romances, striking a balance between entertainment and emotion, and giving her readers the compelling story they have come to expect and enjoy.

Carly is a New York Times bestseller, USA Today Bestseller and Publisher's Weekly bestseller. The triple play earned her a spot on Romance Writers of America's coveted Honor Roll. In 2002, Carly's novel, The Bachelor, became Kelly Ripa's "Reading with Ripa" pick on Live with Regis and Kelly, making it the first romance ever chosen on a nationally televised bookclub.

Carly received her undergraduate degree from Brandeis University and is a graduate of Boston University School of Law (J.D.). To date, Carly has over twenty-five novels to her credit, all available wherever books are sold.

When not writing or playing online, Carly loves to read, to knit, and to spend time with her family. She lives in Purchase, New York with her husband, two daughters and two soft-coated wheaten terriers who act like their third and fourth children.

For more information, visit Carly's always updated web site at www.carlyphillips.com where she has monthly contests, excerpts and much more.

Customer Reviews

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars BODY HEAT leaves a blazing trail of passion and romance, December 25, 2001

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Desmond Chan (Bishan North Singapore) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Body Heat (The Simply Series, Book 4) (Paperback)

If you cannot conjure up an image of a Harlequin romance being sexy and hot, perhaps BODY HEAT by Carly Phillips may change your impression. With a mere 250 page story, Ms. Philips weaves a tale of novelty revolving Brianne Nelson as a physical therapist hired to assuage the injuries of a recuperating cop, Jake Lowell. It is actually more of a matchmaking act by his sister Rina who sees the attraction between the two of them when Brianne is holding part-time as a waitress in The Sideline Cafe.

The therapy soons becomes a fulfilment of fantasies. Even more for gratification of their vulnerable hearts. Jake wants a brief affair but their communication promises more as his heart speaks otherwise. He is scarred by his past marriage. His money-grubbing wife and the danger of his job makes him retreat from love. Brianne respects his job but she knows she would fear for him when he is at risk. A nervous breakdown is impending given her past experience.

However when Jake's arch-nemesis Ramirez swears to take his life and close in onto Brianne, both of them realize that their love may be to the extent 'till death do us part'. There is no frills in this simple tale but a gloss of temptation and reckless fantasy. Ms. Philips shows her competency in her tight narration. Smoldering with desire and dazzling passion, she proves that a Harlequin romance can raise your body heat and leave a blazing trail too.

24 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sizzling! Very highly recommended, September 16, 2001

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C. Penn "WordWeaving" (Greenville, SC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Body Heat (The Simply Series, Book 4) (Paperback)

The days might be hot and humid, but New York City nights sizzle as Jack Lowell returns again and again to THE SIDEWALK CAFE to watch the sexy waitress. Just the sight of her rouses Jack's curiosity and encourages his imagination. Her blazing smile inspires a plethora of fantasies, feeding the raging inferno within. Indeed, few things have piqued his imagination since a shooting sidelined him and took out his partner. Yet even the shoulder injury and the determination to seek retribution for the loss of his fellow officer isn't enough to curb the desire that blazes with such a force that it causes him to return day after day just to watch her.

As the sizzling awareness rages into an inferno, Brianne Nelson's fantasies center around the sexy stranger who returns night after night to the cafe. Working two jobs and carrying immense responsibility has robbed her life of fun, and just the kick she gains from seeing her fantasy man is enough to add new vitality to Brianne nights. Her day job, however, soon leads to an incredible opportunity to make enough money for a life of her own. Rina, the woman who frequently accompanies the sexy stranger, hires Brianne to be her brother's physical therapist. While Rina is out of town over the summer, Brianne to moves into Rina's luxurious Manhattan apartment to work with her brother.

Jack doesn't need a live in therapist, nor does he want his sister's matchmaking. And now the woman he's desired for months is becoming his roommate. Once Brianne arrives, it's impossible to cover his previous shoulder recovery. Jack was using his injury as a cover to find the perpetrator of his partner's killer, and Brianne can't be fooled. Worse, as a cop with a bad marriage and divorce behind him, Jack doesn't need a new relationship. And his interest in Brianne is too much to contain in a no strings, unemotional affair. Something sizzles between them more than just lust. Further, her presence puts her in danger as the drug-dealing murderer realizes she can be used to get to Jack.

It promises to be a long, hotly seductive summer in BODY HEAT as author Carly Phillips playfully uses the skill of physical therapy to create a heated romance. Indeed, Phillips works massage therapy, water therapy and glass lined workout rooms into erotic encounters that fuel the heat to become a blazing inferno. In addition, the sympathetic characters and fast paced plot keep the reader thoroughly absorbed. Provocative, seductive, and hot, BODY HEAT is a keeper that comes very highly recommended.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Injured cop falls for his physical therapist, August 24, 2006

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Tracy Vest (Northern California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Body Heat (The Simply Series, Book 4) (Mass Market Paperback)

After a drug bust goes awry and his partner is killed, Jake is nursing a bullet wound to his shoulder and he refuses to get physical therapy to return to duty. The highlight of his week is the visits with his sister to a cafe where he trades longing glances with a sexy waitress. When his sister decides to take a trip to Europe to nurse her own broken heart, she asks Jake to dog sit for her at her penthouse, not telling him that he has made arrangements for the sexy waitress, Brianne (who just so happens to be a physical therapist by day...) to move in and help get him back to health.

When the two discover the deception, both are convinced they won't succumb to temptation. That lasts about a half day, and they agree to a summer fling, as she plans to move to California where her brother will attend college in the fall. Jake knows that Brianne will discover he's back in near perfect health - something he's kept secret since he has his own plans to get even with Luis Ramirez, the drug dealer who killed his partner and eluded capture on a technicality. Luis has plans to get even with Jake by going through Brianne. As a precaution, Jake has a PI watch over Brianne when she is not with him. Soon she notices that she is being followed, and Jake is convinced it's Luis. Will he be able to protect the woman he loves from the man that killed his partner without losing his heart in the process?

Note that this is a re-issue that pre-dates Phillips' "Simply" series (Jakes sister Rina appears in "Simply Sexy" and the epilogue in this one is yet another shameless promotion to entice the reader to check out Rina's story). The writing is a bit pedestrian, the mystery and suspense kept at a minimum, but the steam that Phillips is known for is in abundance.