Words of Silk: A Classic Love Story [Hardcover]

Sandra Brown (Author)

Book Description

Series: Brown, Sandra | Publication Date: May 5, 2004

When Laney McLeod finds herself stuck in a Manhattan high-rise elevator, she must rely on the handsome stranger with her to help her overcome her claustrophobia. The man, Deke Sargent, finds himself equally drawn to this beautiful and vulnerable woman. When the power goes back on, Deke and Laney find themselves in a heated embrace that leads to an even more passionate night in Deke's apartment. The next morning, shocked at her brazenness, Laney disappears. Unable to forget the chemistry between them, but afraid that she is just another notch on the handsome playboy's bedpost, Laney must risk her heart or forever lose the one man she can't resist.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Sandra Brown is the author of more than 50 New York Times bestsellers, including CHILL FACTOR (2005), WHITE HOT (2004), HELLO, DARKNESS (2003), THE CRUSH (2002), ENVY (2001), THE SWITCH (2000), THE ALIBI (1999), UNSPEAKABLE (1998), and FAT TUESDAY (1997), all of which have been positioned in the top five spots. Brown began her writing career in 1981 and since then has published 65 novels. Her books have been translated into 30 languages, and there are presently 70 million copies of her books in print worldwide. Her 1992 novel FRENCH SILK was made into an ABC-TV movie. A lifelong Texan, Sandra Brown was born in Waco and raised in Ft. Worth. Before embarking on her writing career, she worked as a model at the Dallas Apparel Mart, and in television, including weathercasting for WFAA-TV in Dallas, and feature reporting on the nationally syndicated program "PM Magazine." Awards and commendations include the American Business Women's Association's Distinguished Circle of Success, B'nai B'rith's Distinguished Literary Achievement Award, the A. C. Greene Award and the Romance Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award. She is a member of Author's Guild, Mystery Writers of America, International Association of Crime Writers, Novelists, Inc. and Literacy Partners. She is married to Michael Brown, a former television anchorman who recently produced the award winning documentary film DUST TO DUST. They live in Arlington, Texas.

From AudioFile

Deke Sargent and Laney McLeod meet while trapped in an elevator in New York City. As Deke helps Laney overcome her claustrophobia, the emotionally starved Laney finds love and caring. But when Laney becomes pregnant with Deke's child, Karen Ziemba has her work cut out for her, alternating emotional and tonal nuance between the confident Deke and the self-sufficient Laney. Ziemba brings passion to the characters and their fight for each other and their place in the world. M.B.K. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: Warner Books (May 5, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446533440
• ISBN-13: 978-0446533447
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,456,367 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "LOVE ME", June 7, 2004

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Katrina Carmack (Clearwater Fl USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Words of Silk: A Classic Love Story (Hardcover)

What does New York,an elevator,a blackout,a good looking guy and clausterphobia have in common. Laney McLeod. All of those single things lead to a one night stand. What a suprise ten weeks later when Laney goes to the doctor,for what she thinks is the stomach virus. And learns that shes pregnant. She can't beleive it. At first shes in shock. For when she was thirteen she was told that she would never have children.
When she gets home she begins to accept it. She actually is happy about it. Now she will have someone to love and get that same love in return. She thinks about how she is going to tell the school principal and the superintendant. For she is a kindergarten teacher and is single.
She comes up with a pausiable story. Her and her husband have legally seperated. And they had got together for a weekend to try and reconcile,it didn't work out and she was pregnant.
Now that Deke Sargent has spent weeks looking for Laney, and learns that she is pregnant. He wants to be in her and the babys life. But Laney wants nothing to do with him. She wants him to leave and let her and the baby be. Will Deke be around for the Laney and the baby. Or will he do what Laney expects him do. LEAVE.

This classic love story is a great book. When you open the first page you won't want to put it down until it's done. It's fast paced. You'll love it. Sandra Brown does a great job. Enjoy.

17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars If you want sex - here you go!, August 11, 2004

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Barbara Rhoades "Jackie of all Trades" (O'Fallon, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Words of Silk (Audio CD)

I now am completely versed in lovemaking and all the words that go with it. Sandra Brown has written a love story that is completely about two people in bed. While she has the beginnings of a GREAT story, the focus of Words of Silk was mainly on how many times Deke and Laney could find themselves entangled in a hot passionate embrace.

The story begins in a 10 minutes black out in an elevator in New York City. The sparks that ignited between a very claustrophobic Laney McCloud and Deke Sargent are the makings of a story about a gentleman to the rescue of a damsel in distress. He takes her back to his apartment to help her calm down and they end up in bed. OK, a great way to start a romantic novel. But for the next four and a half CDs, every other sentence is about them in bed. There are small portions of Laney's life as a kindergarten teacher and Deke's as a lawyer but the main focus of the book was how hot they were for each other.

I kept hoping that Ms. Brown would expand on their lives and how they worked out their two vastly different lifestyles. I was hoping that Ms. Brown would allow Laney's character to want to find her father and expand on that subject matter. I was hoping that Ms. Brown would expand on Deke's large family and loving chaos that goes with it. Unfortunately, none of this happened.

In short, this is a bedroom book and the story line goes lacking. In Ms. Brown's book, Hello Darkness, she wrote a wonderful plot and the characters didn't find it necessary to fall into bed at every turn. In Envy there were a few references to bedrooms scenes but there was a plot and she developed it. Seduction by Design was a book that sounded like it would be totally involved in the bedroom but was not. And, finally The Switch was a murder mystery involving twin sisters. Again, none of these books involved a total commitment to sex. I had hoped Ms. Brown would continue to write in this manner in Words of Silk but was disappointed.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars One annoying book, February 21, 2006

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BarkLessWagMore (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Words of Silk (Audio Cassette)

This book thoroughly annoyed me. It was originally written back in the 80's and it shows. The heroine, a naive kindergarten teacher, manages to land herself in an elevator during a blackout with a handsome older guy. She has a fit of the vapors (or something) and he ends up carrying her back to his apartment where he thinks it would be a grand idea to soothe her with some brandy (and some good lovin' for good measure). Naive, innocent and virginal!!, our brilliant heroine ends up downing two drinks and begging this stranger to have sex. She wakes up conveniently forgetting everything and scurries away while he's showering (or something ~ my mind was wandering a bit I'm afraid). Of course, she ends up preggers.

This all happens in the opening chapters and what follows only serves to annoy and irritate me further. The "hero" spends the next few months tracking this strange woman down through some stealthy detective work and quickly insinuates his way into her life with very little subtlety because he fancies himself in love with her and the baby to be. As irritating as all of this may be, do you know drove me over the edge? This guy rubs her belly and calls the kid "skooter". That just drove me absolutely nuts. What kind of guy calls an unborn baby "skooter"?

As he continues to take over her life, she puts up the token resistance but then he touches her and, ooooh, ahhhhh, all thoughts of fighting are over and the sex begins anew. Ick. Who is this creep and who the heck does he think he is? Anyway, to sum it up? No matter how OLD the book, all sex, no relationship = an irritated me. There were lots of good romantic romances written in the 80's and this isn't one of them.