Clay [Mass Market Paperback]

Jennifer Blake (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Mira Books (July 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 155199819X
• ISBN-13: 978-1551998190
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,755,164 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jennifer Blake has been called "the steel magnolia of women's fiction" for her enduring career as an author. She has also been lauded as a "pioneer of the romance genre" and an "icon of the romance industry." A New York Times and international best selling author from the publication of "Love's Wild Desire" in 1977, she is a charter member of Romance Writers of America, member of the RWA and Affaire de Coeur Halls of Fame, and recipient of the RWA Lifetime Achievement Rita. She holds numerous other honors, including two Maggies, two Holt Medallions, multiple Reviewer's Choice awards, the Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times BookReviews Magazine, and the Frank Waters Award for literary excellence. She has written 65 books with translations in 20 languages and more than 30 million copies in print. Jennifer and her husband live on a lake in northern Louisiana.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars My romreadtoday.com review for Clay, July 19, 2001

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"vtavidreader" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Clay (Mass Market Paperback)

A simple favor turns into a huge nightmare for Clay Benedict, the youngest of four boys from the powerful Benedict family. Clay agrees to help his cousin, Denise, by checking on her friend, Janna Kerr, who is staying in Denise's secluded fishing camp. Unbeknownst to Clay, Janna has ulterior motives and secretly drugs his coffee. Once he is unconscious, Janna moves him to her spare bedroom before tying him up.

When Clay wakes up and discovers he is being held prisoner, he figures Janna is hiding something. As he becomes closer to Janna's precocious young daughter, Lainey, Clay finds himself looking into the eyes of a Benedict, but whose child is she? As the situation unfolds, Clay learns Lainey has End Stage Renal Disease and there is little hope unless a transplant is found soon. No matter the cost, Janna is determined to keep her child alive until a kidney can be found on the black market. When a dead body is found in the bayou, Janna realizes she may be in over her head.

Admittedly, I have other Benedict books waiting upstairs on my bookshelf; I kept putting them aside. What a huge mistake! CLAY is fast-paced and toe curling. I fell in love with Clay and his brothers; each has his own story either previously released or in the works. Clay is honest, caring and does not take grief from anyone. His dialogue with Lainey is heartwarming and genuine, the ideal man/child relationship, while the passion roaring between Clay and Janna adds a strong romance to the already stunning story! Janna, on the other hand, seemed a bit naïve and acted before thinking. Janna's carelessness was a good match with Clay's steadfast attitude.

Suspense fans will adore this story; the action picks up rapidly and had me flipping pages as fast as I could! Now I can't wait to work my way through the other brother's stories- KANE 3/98, LUKE 2/99, ROAN 7/00 and the upcoming WADE 9/02.

Tracy

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars So Unbelievable...!!, February 2, 2003

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This review is from: Clay (Mass Market Paperback)

Can anyone imagine a small adult female kidnapping and tying up a big hunk?? I could not! The premise of this story was too much of a stretch. Amazing as I found ROAN was a fantastic story! The heroine waffled from one plan to another and all of them were way out in "left field" I have completed all the Benedict books - sorry this one was so disappointing!

3.0 out of 5 stars A little bizarre - but I am hooked on the series., June 26, 2005

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This review is from: Clay (Mass Market Paperback)

The book is about a mother who ties up her brother-in-law to the bed with hopes to steal his kidney for her daughter. The father of daughter is dead and the twin to the man she had tied up. I think I enjoyed 'Luke' book best but now that I am hooked I have to read all of them...