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5.0 out of 5 stars
Another Thrilling Page Turner from Tori Carrington, November 8, 2004
This review is from: Total Exposure (Code Red (Harlequin)) (Mass Market Paperback)
Natalie has been treating Dan for burns he'd received several months ago but he's been avoiding her. At the urging of Dan's daughter, Natalie makes a house call at the fire station to see how he's doing and is there when the call about a mudslide comes in. Offering her help, she is suddenly drawn into the drama of a rescue and a frantic dash in a chopper with Dan to the hospital. On the way back, it goes down in a torrential storm, landing Dan and Natalie on a deserted island off the coast of California.
Forced to bunk together for days in an abandoned coast guard station, they discover things about each other that neither knew before. It doesn't take long before their tentative friendship turns to lust. Will it continue once they are rescued? Dan and Natalie are also in a battle for their lives when they discover that they're not alone on the island. Will they discover who it is and get off safely?
TOTAL EXPOSURE is the fourth installment in Harlequin's Code Red continuity series and Tori Carrington has penned another winner. Right from the start, readers will sense that Natalie and Dan are meant for each other, and as each dramatic scene unfolds in TOTAL EXPOSURE, they grow closer to each other. Both have had sadness in their lives the past couple of years, but it's time to move on, and despite the harrowing experience they're in right now, they learn and prosper from it, and fall in love with each other.
Action packed and a page turner from the start, TOTAL EXPOSURE is filled with emotional dialogue that will tug at a reader's heart. Natalie and Dan are sympathetic characters who are true life and heroic. For an enjoyable and heartwarming story that rocks, pick up TOTAL EXPOSURE by Tori Carrington today.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Carrington duo delivers another winner!, November 13, 2004
This review is from: Total Exposure (Code Red (Harlequin)) (Mass Market Paperback)
Code Red? That label should appear on the cover of any of the Carrington duo's books for they are the best at sensual sizzle! They quickly establish strong characters that reach into the reader and immediately make them care. And that they do it again in this book is hardly a surprise. They consistently turn out high class, high voltage books that have earned them a loyal fan base! They deliver every time and they deliver with Code Red's Total Exposure.
In this fourth in the Code Red series, Total Exposure sees Dr. Natalie Giroux as a doctor specializing in burn victims. Fire Chief Ben Egan is injured on the job, Natalie treats him initially, but then he refuses to come back for follow up exams, avoiding the pretty doctor as if she has the plague. Ben's daughter encourages Natalie to pay a "house call" by stopping by the fire station to make sure he is healing properly.
A torrential rain causes a mud slide trapping a man suffering with chest pains. Natalie is there when the call comes through to the station. Natalie offers to go with Ben on the rescue, thinking having a doctor there instead of an EMT might be the difference in saving the man. Ben agrees so he flies the helicopter to save the day. They get there and save the victim, however, Ben and Natalie are forced into an emergency landing on an abandoned isle in Courage Bay off the California coast. They are forced to take shelter in an abandoned Coast Guard shelter and the enforced closeness allows them to learn more about each other. Soon their attraction flares.
While the romance is Carrington hot, it's the deft handling of two people that have been hurt before, reaching beyond the pain to try again, is what captures the readers' heart. The Carringtons have a basic understanding of the instant physical attraction between man and woman that goes beyond most writers. They turn up the heat to white hot, yet the whole time they deliver strong characters and believability that marks them as the tops in Romance.
So chalk up another brilliant winner in the Carrington's column!
2004 Reviews International Organization Award of Excellence Finalist and 2nd Place Winner
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
strong romantic suspense, October 31, 2004
This review is from: Total Exposure (Code Red (Harlequin)) (Mass Market Paperback)
In Courage Bay, California, though he needs an examination of an on the job burn, Fire Chief Ben Egan avoids Burn Specialist Dr. Natalie Giroux as if her touch would enflame him. Still with the coaxing of his daughter, Natalie goes to the station to confront the reluctant Ben so that she can see if his injury is healing properly.
When a torrential rain causes a mud slide that threatens a trapped man suffering chest pains, Dan and Natalie team up. He flies the medvac helicopter and they rescue the victim only to have the storm force an emergency landing on apparently abandoned Shamala Island in Courage Bay. As they wait for rescue, they begin fall in love, but both have ghosts preventing them from moving on with someone else. Fourteen years have passed since Natalie's fiancé died from heart disease just before their wedding while his beloved spouse Eleanor also passed away several years ago. In the midst of this Code Red emergency, can a second chance at love blossom between two nice intrepid souls fearing the loss of loved ones?
TOTAL EXPOSURE affirms that no one does romantic suspense better than Team Carrington does it. The story line uses previous loving relationships to provide the motive for both lead characters to avoid a new one as loved ones die until they are stranded with no place to hide or run from one another. The action is top rate with fans feeling they are in the midst of the disaster. Sub-genre fans will gain plenty of delight from this powerful tale of love and rescue in Courage Bay.
Harriet Klausner
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