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Here Comes Trouble (Hqn Romance)

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Max Taylor is heading for Trouble. Trouble, Pennsylvania that is. Max's eccentric grandfather, Mortimer, just bought the town and Max is laying low because a scandalous book is about to be published that contains details of his sexual conquests. He intends to stop the book from being published before it ruins him. Max has been a bit of a womanizer in the past but he is reforming his ways.

Sabrina Cavanaugh works as a junior editor for Liberty Books. Sabrina is in Trouble, Pennsylvania, undercover, attempting to prove that Max is indeed a womanizer. When Sabrina first gets to Trouble, she meets a man that throws her libido into overdrive. Little does she know this man is Max. Max is shocked by the beauty standing before him, but he needs to stay away from women until this mess with the book is sorted out.

Sabrina's younger sister Allie is pregnant. Peter Prescott is the father of the baby; he is also Sabrina's ex boyfriend and the bane of both hers and Allie's existence. Along with that, someone is trying to run Mortimer out of town, trying to discover where the town's stolen money is. During it all, Sabrina and Max are falling hard for each other. They still hold secrets though. When the truth comes out, Sabrina is worried about how Max will take it, but Max has worries of his own.

Here Comes Trouble is fantastic! Max is to die for and Sabrina is a sweetheart; they are perfect for each other. Ms. Kelly's flawless wit, the side-splitting antics of the towns people, the sultry passion between Max and Sabrina and each endearing character make Here Comes Trouble an unbelievably entertaining story. This is my first Leslie Kelly book but definitely not my last! Reading Here Comes Trouble is a perfect way to spend an afternoon!


Nannette
Reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed

Welcome to Trouble, a town with a strange name, but with even stranger citizens.

Max came to town to hide out from scandal and has pretty much figured out the best way to deal with everyone in Trouble is to take them in stride. After all, none of them will likely care about the tall tales that might be spread in the book. They have their own sordid pasts, including most recently a corrupt mayor who was murdered and ultimately sent the town into bankruptcy and sold to the highest bidder, which happens to be his uncle, Mortimer Potts. Max is immediately smitten with Sabrina, who has her own personal agenda, and can't figure out why she runs hot and cold on him. Then there are the mysterious goings on around town - is there something in the late Mayor's house someone is after? Sabrina has a hard time playing the role of seductress because Max is well...too charmingly nice. But her job proves even harder to do when Allie shows up in town. Can Sabrina get the goods on Max before she falls for him and amidst all of the interruptions provided by people and action in the town? How will Max react when he learns the reason Sabrina has come to Trouble?

Leslie Kelly has written another lively, delightful tale with HERE COMES TROUBLE. It had me snickering and completely enthralled by the wacky characters and doings of Trouble. I swear I will never look at Fabio again without picturing Allie, a poodle and some... um...fruit. Or the elderly Feeney sisters having a knock down fight in the middle of Trouble's Main Street over who gets to claim Mortimer. The romance between Max and Sabrina slowly builds, but the sexual chemistry finally reaches a peak high up in the sky. HERE COMES TROUBLE is filled with fun and madcap scenes that make it one book I won't soon forget. It's definitely going on my keeper shelf.

Leslie Kelly continues her Midas touch with HERE COMES TROUBLE by providing readers with another stellar story. Reading it is almost like a roller coaster ride chockfull of snazzy dialogue, laugh out loud moments, steamy sex scenes, while mixing in a bit of suspense. I guarantee it's one ride you won't want to miss.

Patti Fischer for Romance Reviews Today

Trying to hide from his notoriety in a society widow's steamy tell all book, private pilot Max Taylor has taken to his grandfather's new home in the tiny bankrupt town he recently purchased, aptly named Trouble, Pennsylvania. Max retained a lawyer who has successfully blocked publication of the lurid memoir. Of course, getting a good night's sleep in Trouble is hampered by the plethora of cuckoo clocks left behind by the murdered former Mayor (who absconded with the town coffers, bankrupting the town). Sabrina Cavanaugh is a junior editor who travels to Trouble undercover posing as a society lady in hopes of attracting Max and proving his lothario status, thus stalling the lawsuit. But Sabrina doesn't count on falling for Max, whom she unwittingly falls for before discovering his identity. Following her to Trouble is her pregnant sister, for whom she feels responsibility, since her former boyfriend impregnated Allie to get back at Sabrina for ending the relationship, and their extremely religious family has shunned them.

Kelly has created a simmering duo and a funny yet romantic comedy, where deception plays a key role. Populated with some funny secondary characters including two crazy and competitive sisters with a penchant for poison, the story also has a light mystery as to the whereabouts of the stolen town coffers (as well as the disappearance of Max's grandfather) offers additional high jinks as various townspeople are hell-bent on discovering the ill-gotten gains. It's cute but pretty average overall.

A sexy hero, a heroine with a secret and a cast of crazies makes this book a fun read you won't want to miss. I'm so glad this is only the first book in this series. I want more - and I think you will too.

Bravo, Ms. Kelly. Trouble seems to be your middle name. ;o)

The town of Trouble is filled with unforgetable characters and the steamy romance between Sabrina Cavanaugh and Max Taylor burn up the pages with warmth and humor. Ms. Kelly has a talent for both touching our hearts and making us laugh. Don't miss this funny, happy read.

OK I love Leslie Kelly novels but something was off about this one. First the cover turned me off - but I wanted to give it a chance because it's Leslie Kelly. I started reading the book but mid-way through I found other things to fill my time. I like to say the my house is clean and the laundry is done. The book tells the story of Max Taylor who was a drunk playboy in his past. His ex-lover writes a tell all novel and Max has is own erotic chapter. He decides to stop the novel via lawyers. Sabrina is sent by the publishing firm and to find the book is fact based....

He is part of a media and customer frenzy because of a tell all biography by Grace Wellington, widow of a Congressman, who devoted an entire chapter to his mile high sexual exploits, so former Air Force pilot Max Taylor needs a place to hide until his fifteen minutes of notoriety ends. He decides to combine two activities into one by visiting Trouble, Pennsylvania, a town his grandfather octogenarian millionaire Mortimer Potts just purchased to avoid the boredom of retirement while Max's attorney sues to have the degrading chapter removed.

Junior editor Sabrina Cavanaugh goes to Trouble to prove that Max is a womanizing seducer, which will augment her firm's defense of the tell-all bio. Sabrina assumes that when she succeeds she will get a raise, which she badly needs to help support her pregnant unwed younger sister. She never expected Max to be a caring kindhearted hunk who she falls in love with and owes the truth, but fears their relationship will die out of a lack of trust on his part.

This is an amusing contemporary romance starring two likable protagonists trapped in one delicate situation after another by a horde of eccentric characters led by the hero's grandfather and the heroine's siblings. The jocular story line never takes itself seriously as Max and Sabrina end up in nothing but Trouble. However what makes this plot extra delightful is the audience wondering whether Max really did the mile high deed numerous times including with the Congressman's wife.

Harriet Klausner