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Home Sweet Home (Arabesque)

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Victoria Jones is a survivor. She's bounced back from a career-ending injury, the loss of a child, a bad marriage and divorce. She's started a successful catering business. If she can only survive living next door to Quintin Lord and his ear-shattering music, she'll be OK. Quintin is a lovable, messy artist who likes big dogs, loud music, sailing and his next-door neighbor. When the cooking-challenged Quintin offers his neighbor one of his paintings as a housewarming gift, Victoria suggests a barter. She'll cook for him in exchange for the artwork. The kitchen isn't the only hot place in this novel. Inevitable sparks fly. Rochelle Alers has created funny, realistic characters who start out as adversaries and end up very neighborly.

Rochelle Alers is the bomb. Everything she writes is good. You don't even have to read the bad of the book you know automatically that it's good. There were alot of lessons in this book. Also it really explored Catering Business, trust, love, adoption and friendship.

Rochelle Alers is the bomb. Everything she writes is good. You don't even have to read the bad of the book you know automatically that it's good. There were alot of lessons in this book. Also it really explored Catering Business, trust, love, adoption and friendship.

What more could you expect from Rochelle Alers, but a awesome book. The story of Victoria and Quinten will make you laugh, cry and jump for joy.

Victoria has been through the mill. She has step out in opening up her own catering business after she survived a nasty divorce.

Quinten is determine to find what makes his beautiful neighbor tick. He wants to reveal why she has the sadness in her eyes. After believing that he will never find true love, he is determine to make Vicki his wife.

This is the kind of story you can read over, and over again. Rochelle develops the relationship at a good pace. You learn the background of the characters to help you understand their feelings.

I LOVED IT and I know you will too!!

What starts out as pure aggravation turns into something neither Valerie nor Quintin expected.

Valerie Jones, a former ballerina has finally accepted the losses and the pain in her life. Deciding she will not dance professionally again, and that she can never marry, she channels her interest into her second love, cooking. She equips her condominium with a state of the art kitchen and lets her caterering career consume her life. Her only distraction is the neighbor, with the loud music, and she plans to take care of that.

Photographer Quintin Lord has just completed a taxing project and needs his music to relax. He is surprised when his irate neighbor stumbles, over the dirty laundry, into his apartment. Although his head is no longer turned by a pretty face, he has seen too many, Quintin is none the less enchanted with the vision sprawled on his floor. He has seen enough to know he cannot let her walk out of his life. Valerie is clearly not interested, but Quintin is not the kind of man to take no for an answer.

HOME SWEET HOME is a reissue of one of my first Romance genre reads, I could not remember the title but I remembered the story because one scene in the book was so erotic, it beared remembering. This is a tender story with real issues and enough heat to keep readers simmering. This story is tucked in with Ms. Alers' recent release, All My Tomorrows.

Reviewed by aNN

of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers

In "Home Sweet Home", neighbors Quintin Lord and Victoria Jones clash over Quintin's proclivity for loud music. After having enough, Victoria rushes over to complain and sparks fly when Quintin and Victoria come face-to-face for the first time.

Victoria is reeling from a devastating divorce and doesn't think she has anything to offer a man long-term. She's dedicated to her new catering business and her friends and family.

Quintin doesn't now if he will ever find a woman he deems worthy of marrying. So he's established his life through his work of professional photography and painting and established the dream of owning his own sailboat.

After their very first disagreement, Quintin and Victoria have a few more encounters fueled by apparent dislike, but more by their confusion over being so fiercely attracted to each other despite the fact that neither of them is looking for a deep romantic involvement.

Soon, however, both of them are questioning their romantic resolve after meeting a few times and quickly become intimately involved.

The romance developed rather quickly and it was hard for me to discern the foundation of the deep romantic interest that Quintin proclaimed after a few days of meeting Victoria. In the end, it was a fairly good book.