New Orleans Nights: Pure Chance\Insatiable (Signature Select) [Mass Market Paperback]

Julie Elizabeth Leto (Author)

Book Description

Series: Signature Select | Publication Date: May 9, 2006

A little protection can go a long, long way . . . in the sultry New Orleans nights

Pure Chance
Desperate to get out of a bind, Serena Deveaux decides to "hire" bodyguard Brandon Chance, her high school crush, to pose as her new romantic interest. But Brandon thinks he's protecting Serena from a stalker . . . who doesn't exist! And to further complicate matters, their once adolescent yearnings have now turned into something much deeper and far more dangerous. But even as Serena worries about a relationship that's too hot to handle, a real danger is making its move . . .

Insatiable
Rookie bodyguard Samantha Deveaux questions herself when she's drawn to the picture of a man on a pasta sauce label, until he turns out to be Nick LaRocca himself, CEO of LaRocca Foods -- and Samantha's next client! Nick needs Sam to protect him from a group of out-of-control "pasta label" fans. Now Sam's playing the role of Nick's latest love interest. Problem is it doesn't seem like such a bad idea at all!

Editorial Reviews

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"Julie Elizabeth Leto always delivers sizzling, snappy, edgy stories!" -- New York Times bestselling author Carly Phillips

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 464 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (May 9, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373837062
• ISBN-13: 978-0373837069
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.2 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,148,613 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Over the course of her career, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Julie Leto has published over forty books--all of them sexy and all of them romances at heart. She shares a popular blog--www.plotmonkeys.com--with her best friends, Carly Phillips, Janelle Denison and Leslie Kelly and would love for you to follow her on Twitter, where she goes by @JulieLeto. She's a born and bred Floridian homeschooling mom with a love for her family, her friends, her dachshund, her lynx-point Siamese and super-sexy stories with a guaranteed happy ending.

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4.0 out of 5 stars two zany fun reprints, May 14, 2006

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This review is from: New Orleans Nights: Pure Chance\Insatiable (Signature Select) (Mass Market Paperback)

"Pure Chance". Serena Deveaux and Drew Stuart have been buddies for years so when he turns romantic and considers marriage, she wants to thwart him but not end their friendship. She concocts a diabolical plan when she hires Brandon Chance, the man whose graduation kiss fifteen years ago still heats her memories, to stop Drew's inane fantasy. However, she informs Brandon that someone is stalking her. Chance has never forgotten their encounter either, but feels they are not good for one another as both are daredevils. That is until they kiss.

"Insatiable". Samantha Deveaux grew up in Hollywood and even had minor film roles as a child and became a stunt woman always trying to gain her father's approval until at twenty-eight she gave up and moved to New Orleans to be with her mother and sister. Her brother-in-law Brandon hires her as an operative at his new personal security firm, but is bored with being a security guard at a Super Marketing Expo until she meets the model on the LaRocca Foods spaghetti sauce who happens to be CEO Dominick LaRocca who arrives at the show. Sam persuades Nick to hire her as his personal bodyguard though she has no experience except as a client. He agrees with the stipulation that she pretend to be his lover to fool his beloved grannies who want him married.

These two zany fun reprints starring the Deveaux sisters at times feel like Lucy pulling some inane stunt that is sublime yet amusing. Romance readers who appreciate an inane pair of improbable capers starring devilish females will want to laugh out loud at the escapades of the Deveaux siblings.

Harriet Klausner