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Chemistry (Arabesque)

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Kyra Douglas and Race Jennings work at Com Tel America. Kyra works in the Tech Department and Race is the new CFO. Kyra's best friend, Chantal, a glorified Administrative Assistant also working at Com Tel convinces Kyra to ghost write poems she uses to impress Race. Meanwhile, Race's only interest in Chantal is "her" poems because he only has eyes for Kyra.

This was for the most part and OK read. I just didn't believe that Race could date Chantal only because he liked "her" poetry.

Chemistry By:Kim Louise

Kyar Douglas has the smarts but does she have the beauty. She works for Com Tel America in the Tech Department. Kyar is a poet who begins to write pomes for her best friend Chantel. When she finds out that Chantel is giving the poem to the one man she has learned to love and like, who she has yet to tell. Will there friendship come to an end? What will Kyar do? Will she just let Chantel have Race? After all Chantel is just his type or so she thinks. Kyar is average girl, she the girl no guy wants. Kyar soon decides that she is not writing any more poems for Chantel. And she goes after her man: New CFO Race Jennings. Race Jennings is a will round man. He sexy, smarts, and handsome. But what would he do when he learns the woman he dating it's who she says she is and doesn't love him like Kyar. When Race learns that Kyar is his love will he dislike her or Will their love standout or will he go on beauty alone.

This is diffidently 5 S*T*A*R*S* story. Loved It!

It's another day at the Com-Tel offices when Kyra, a computer techie, returns from her writer's retreat. She does the rounds of hellos and "how are you doings" when she runs into the handsome Race Jennings, the new CFO who started while she was away. An innocent encounter in the bathroom unleashes an electricity between the two, "like magnets. Only since it's an electricity, it's more powerful than a magnet." And that initial contact sets them on a I-want-you-but-can't-have-you office dance that commands the entire book. The two can't have one another (or can they?) because Race just happens to be dating Kyra's bestfriend and co-worker, Chantel, the office beauty queen.
But Kyra has a potent weapon up her sleeve to capture Race's heart, her love and talent for poetry. Her written words sing, move, and transmit her every sexual desire and heart-wrenched feeling. And Chantel, whose only talent is to wear her Perma-smile and shop for bags on eBay, knows that she needs Kyra's poetry to rope the heart of a guy like Race. So Kyra gives her poems to Chantel who passes them off as hers for Race to read. Perhaps, Race will fall in love with Chantel through Kyra's words.

It's obvious where the story goes but it's still a fun read. The thrust of the book is the back and forth, the chemistry if you will, between Race and Kyra. Author Kim Louise knows how to wield her lens to peer into the hearts and desires of these two characters. She knows how to express every emotional and physical ache between these two, every shiver, every tingle, every lingering gaze and every lustful sensation they fight off with every cell of their being.
While Louise deftly provides the reader with a map of their tamed temptations, I felt that I didn't see enough of Savannah, Georgia. The book focused more on the office interactions of the three main characters and every now and then, the poetry slams.
I was yearning to see the streetscapes and old southern charm that Savannah is known for.
But there's another kind of chemistry taking place in this novel, the one between a writer and her words. Besides the desires of the heart, Louise also captures the heart of an aspiring poet. Louise imparts the neverending frustration of a writer trying to get published, "...how something that weighed less than an ounce could make her feel so heavy with sadness,'' Louise describes Kyra's disillusioned spirit after receiving yet another rejection letter. But Kyra never relents. She writes because it's her passion, her oxygen, her spirit and she never backs down from one day having her work read and shared with the world, which is something that any writer/poet can relate to.