Obsession (Harlequin Blaze) [Mass Market Paperback]

Tori Carrington (Author)

Book Description

Series: Harlequin Blaze | Publication Date: April 1, 2006

The French Quarter: where seduction is a game...

The Game: Obsession

The Players: Josie Villefranche, notorious hotel owner; Drew Morrison, business shark

Object of the Game: Have a Cajun-hot love affair, without getting burned

Bordello-turned-hotel-owner Josie has a hands-off rule when it comes to men. Too many have wanted her only for her talents in bed. But when too-sexy-to-resist Drew checks in, she decides to make an exception: use him, then lose him--no regrets.

Ruthless businessman Drew has a hidden agenda: to buy the cash-strapped hotel. But he's been bedding its bewitching proprietor instead. When a murder puts Josie in both financial and legal trouble, Drew must make a choice: grab the hotel and run--or sacrifice everything for another night in her bed....

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (April 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373792476
• ISBN-13: 978-0373792474
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 3.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,474,873 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Tori Carrington is the pen name of nationally best-selling, award-winning authors Lori Schlachter Karayianni and Tony Karayianni. Their over 50 published novels include titles for Harlequin Blaze, Temptation, Signature Series and Silhouette Special Edition, and their hardcover comedic-mystery series Sofie Metropolis, PI. For more info, visit http://www.toricarrington.net, http://www.facebook.com/toricarrington http://www.myspace.com/toricarrington and http://www.twitter.com/toricarrington

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars dark modern day gothic romantic suspense, April 2, 2006

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Obsession (Harlequin Blaze) (Mass Market Paperback)

In the French Quarter of New Orleans, Josie Villefranche, owner of Hotel Josephine, owes taxes that if not soon paid will mean losing her business. The murder of guest Claire Laraway in room 2D two weeks ago has driven away her customers leading to Josie letting go her last maid go due to her inability to pay her.

Drew "Closer" Morrison, known as a business piranha, who can get anyone to sell has arrived to close the deal for a hotel chain to buy Hotel Josephine from a money-strapped Josie. However, the shark is shocked when he finds he is attracted to Josie; she too is taken aback by her desire for her guest. As they share passionate ardent lovemaking, someone tries to force Josie to sell using dangerous deadlier methods that even a Closer like Morrison would never utilize. Drew realizes he must choose between love and money.

OBSESSION is a dark modern day gothic romantic suspense that grips the audience from the moment that Josie and Drew meet and never slows down whether the scene is fervent heat in the boudoir or someone attempting to force the heroine to sell. Josie's desire to hold on is admirable and a bit obstinate while Drew's past is not something to write home proudly to mother about as he has used some underhanded tactics, but nothing like his rival is doing; before Josie he did not care what anyone thought but now he fears she will accuse him of the dastardly potentially lethal stunts. Tori Carrington provides a gripping blazing thriller.

Harriet Klausner

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An....obsession that may kill them, March 28, 2006

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Patti Fischer "pattifischer" (WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Obsession (Harlequin Blaze) (Mass Market Paperback)

Hotel owner Josie has decided that, like her grandmother, she's destined to run the family hotel and never find everlasting love. Now a hotel corporation is bent on taking over Hotel Josephine and a murder in one of her rooms has Josie fighting to stay open. One day, in walks a stranger who pays for a week's stay. The fiery attraction between them is instantaneous. But will Josie end up being badly scorched when she finds out why he's really there?

What Josie isn't aware of is that Drew's there to convince her to sell...using any means he can. After all, he's not called "The Closer" for any other reason. But even Drew has to admit there's an attraction between himself and Josie. She's mysterious, beautiful and full of passion. Passion that soon explodes between them. But in between their hot passionate encounters underlies a sense of tension as mysterious acts-including another murder-intrude into their lives. Is someone sending a dark message? But the biggest question is...who?

Tori Carrington takes readers on another sensuous journey in their latest trilogy, Dangerous Liaisons. The hotel owner, Josie was first introduced in POSSESION and her Caribbean roots give her a dark, earthy sensuality to which Drew is immediately drawn to. The tension swirling around as a result of the recent murder hangs a dark cloud heavily over the hotel. The moment he steps into Hotel Josephine, the sexual chemistry burns between them, pulling them into an affair that's like, well...an obsession with each other. Readers will be pulled into a captivating story of forbidden love and heart-stopping danger in OBSESSION. Josie is hanging onto a tiny thread as the life she's only known is threatened by the one person she didn't expect to hurt her-the man she's fallen in love with.

Don't miss a story filled with action, intrigue and a love that burns hotter than a Louisiana heat wave. OBSESSION will have you reaching for a fan while leaving you breathless wondering what's going to happen next. Pick up another winner from the fabulous Tori Carrington.