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Insatiable (Heat) (Harlequin Temptation)

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if you love books that are set in New Orleans, this is the one. Samantha Devearaux is temporary unemployed until her brother-in-law come back home from his honeymoon that is. She got a job in the Expo center to be a security guard and that is where she met Dominick LaRocca. Dominick is the CEO of LaRocca food and he is on a 'tour' promoting his pasta sauce. Unknown to him, his grandmothers, the chairman of the company, had put his 'most delicious' picture altogether with his net worth and his single status as a label of the pasta sauce. Just imagine the reactions of the women all over. He needs a bodyguard, and who better to guard his body than the gorgeous Sam. Sam posed as his fiancee and during all those adventures.. they both fall in love...

PS: this is the sequel of "Pure Chance" by Julie Elizabeth Leto that was out this January I think. So, she is Serena's sister. This book is another of Julie's best book. Keep that up!!

Dominick LaRocca has a major problem. He is the CEO of his family's pasta sauce business and he now has to dodge the women of the world simply because his grandmothers thought it was high time he married and they decided to place his photo, along with his income and marital status, on the label of the LaRocca pasta sauce cans. Needless to say he isn't very happy with these two nanas of his but he refuses to hire a bodyguard. After an incident, involving some rowdy women, he reconsiders hiring a bodyguard after a sexy security guard saved him from having his clothes torn from his body at an expo where he had an appointment to promote his products.

This sexy security guard is Samantha Deveaux. We first met Sam in Leto's previous novel "Pure Chance", which is the story of Samantha's sister Serena. Sam is now working for her brother-in-law, Chance. He is the owner of a bodyguard business called No Chances. But since Chance and Serena are still away on their honeymoon, Sam takes a temporary job as a security guard at a Supermarketing Expo. Her job is to make sure Mr. LaRocca makes it to his booth in one piece. All hell breaks loose as he enters the building and this is where the fun begins!

I have to say that this book left me wanting more. More time with Sam and Nick. More time with Nick's nanas. Just more of anything to do with this story. Nick's nanas were a hoot and given more time, I think they could have stirred up even more fun!

Don't miss this sexy, funny read. Thank you Julie for such an entertaining read!

We last saw Samantha Deveaux in PURE CHANCE with her sister Serena. Sam is back in New Orleans to start a new life away from her father and Hollywood's glitz. In order to make ends meet, she takes a security job for Supermarket Expo. How bad could it be? But she didn't bargain for Pasta Guy!

Dominick LaRocca's life was never the same after his grandmothers put him on the label of the family company's tomato sauce jar in an attempt to get him settled down. Well, life is anything but settled for Nick and is about to get even more so when Sam "Just-Doing-My-Job" ends up rescuing him from hordes of screaming women and ends up with a piece of his heart.

INSATIABLE defines the Temptation Heat tagline: Sassy,Sexy,Seductive. The shower scene alone is worth the price of the book. The characters and the story premise are delightful. Ms. Leto has another winner with more on the horizon.

The book is awesome! You definitely want to read this one. It is hot, steamy and leaves you wanting more! Julie Elizabeth Leto is at her best! The steam between the two main characters is unbelievable. The added plus of his aunts' interference is incredibly funny. I am not normally a big fan of Harlequin romance novels, but in this new genre, they have taken the lead in hot romance. I cannot wait until Julie's next book for the series is published!

This author was not playing or holding back at all...Loved it
hard to believe the whole thing happen in 2 days what whatever i loved it..
Bathroom scene was just funny to me and their love scene O.M.G! STEAMY, i think the book had steam coming from it...

Great for collection..


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When we last saw Samantha Devereaux, estranged twin-sister of Serena Devereaux, she was badgering Brandon Chance, her brother-in-law to be to let her work for him. Chance had just retired from the Nightstalkers, due to vision problems stopping him from being a pilot, and had set up a Private body guard service. Since he could find no reason not to take on Samantha as partner, he has let her go ahead and get her license while he and Serena are on their honeymoon. Only the joyful bliss led Chance and Serena to say away for a month longer than intended, leaving Samantha to grow antsy. She has gone gun-ho in this new line of work, and spent more than Chance's petty cash allows on new 'toys' for the business, so she kills time and get experience and money by hiring on as security for an business expo.

The first day she is put on a detail to provide security for the CEO/Model of a family run spaghetti sauce corporation. Dominick Larocca loves fine food, is very family oriented, and is sexy male personified. But when he two grandmothers decide it is past time for him to settle down, they take matters into their own hands and announce Dominick is looking for a bride. When a man that looks like every woman's dream is coupled with a spiralling fortune, it seems every woman is ready to jump Dominick like he is a rock star. This is very distressing to the CEO, for he cannot even take a shower without someone crawling out from under the bed, let alone carry on the business he came to New Orleans to handle.

Sam has spent hours staring at the huge display of the bare-chested man on the spaghetti sauce presentation, but she is unprepared for the reaction of the wild women chasing Dominick, as she is unprepared for the man himself. She tried to calm her fantasies by saying the CEO is arrogant for appearing on his own product bare-chested. But as she learns about him, like the fact is was his grandmothers that used his picture without his knowledge, she begins to feel sympathy for him. So when he mentions he will need to hired a personal body guard while in New Orleans, she jumps at the chance, despite her misgivings due her personal attraction to him. She is professional enough to handle it and keep their business impersonal....isn't she???

Things soon steam up as Dominick makes it clear that he wants her not only as a body guard, but for her to pretend to be his girlfriend, hoping to stop the mobs of marriage hungry females.

What I like about Leto's writing is she presents strongly developed good-girls-do women, ladies who are not afraid to face romance and go after it, instead of blushing and denying...
Her men are sexy, to die for, yet are very down to earth...yeah, they are pure alpha males, but they are mannered, raised well gentlemen who respect women of all ages. She sprinkles her books with quirky characters, spices it with steamy love scenes, knows the difference between romance and sex and how the two go together. She breathes vibrant life into her writing, while drawning on her love of New Orleans and ethnic backgrounds.

You cannot ask for more than that!!!

A super follow up to Pure Chance!!

While she waits for her new position as bodyguard to begin, Samantha Deveaux fills time by gaining experience as a security guard. Her job at the Supermarket Expo lands her in front of the Pasta God, or at least an incredibly delicious pasta label with the gorgeous model. That simple pencil drawing holds her on the edge of sexual insanity, not to mention inspiring new creative uses for olive oil. Too bad Sam's set herself the challenge of celibacy in an effort to overcome her past. So when the real man behind the extraordinary image shows up, and the surge of electricity between them proves to be scorching.

Sexy, wealthy CEO Dominick LaRocca has it all, except the possibility of enjoying his blessings. Ever since his grandmother added his Mediterranean good looks to the company pasta label, women have wanted to taste the delectable man behind the bare-chested, Michaelangelo-like image. Nick can't help feeling disgusted with women's response following the release of the label. Desperate to put a stop to women's hysterical reactions, and tired of neglecting his personal life and personal needs, he hires Samantha as his bodyguard. Never mind he doesn't like her toughness, her take control attitude, or her way of speaking her mind. And never mind her glossy lips and sassy walk.

Making the man a sex symbol and the woman the protector creates a wonderful twist in the plot of INSATIABLE. Samantha's desire to remain celibate and heal the wounds of the past, when she substituted sex for love, also presents a marvelous challenge as she must grow to accept her sexuality and desire inside a loving relationship. Moreover, it's great fun to watch an old fashioned boy with out dated ideas about obedient women grow into an appreciation of smart and sassy. Indeed, Julie Elizabeth Leto once again demonstrates her understanding of the weakness, passions, and strengths of love, resulting in a hunger that's INSATIABLE.

Insatiable by Julie Elizabeth Leto
Harlequin Temptation # 835 - June 2001

Samantha has always been the caretaker. Even as a child she moved to L.A. with her father so she could look after him. Then more recently she had a love affair with a hot movie actor for all the wrong reasons. So she's moved back to New Orleans, where her mother and sister are, to be her own person and make her own dreams. In Hollywood she was a very good stunt double, so her athletic experience leads to a job with her brother-in-law as a bodyguard. Nick launched his grandmothers' pasta sauce company straight out of college. Now he's CEO of a major corporation looking to get into the European market. His beloved Nanas have put a delicious photo of him on their pasta sauce label, announcing to America that Nick is looking for a wife. Sam's working at the Superdome where Nick has a booth for the Super Marketing Expo. When he tries to enter the stadium he's surrounded by hoards of wife-wannabes, and Sam comes charging to his rescue. Sam sees Nick as the perfect opportunity to try out her newly acquired bodyguard skills.

On the back cover it reads, Sassy, Sexy, Seductive and this one meets all of those hands down! When Sam agrees to pretend to be his girlfriend, poor Nick doesn't really know what he's getting into. And when Sam's psychic mother and Nick's matchmaking Nanas get together, Nick just doesn't have a chance. I couldn't put this own down until I read the very last page!

--- for Serena's story see Pure Chance by Julie Leto - Temptation #814 - Jan. 01

This was a really good read. I'll have to pick up Pure Chance - The book where sam is introduced.