Ice Princess (Paperback)

by Catherine Snodgrass (Author), Bryndis Rubin (Author) "Sharp, painful jabs of sunlight forced open Claudia Stuart's eyelids..." (more)
Key Phrases: single nod, Allison Sinclair, San Francisco, Marine Corps (more...)

Editorial Reviews

Review
"...One of the best romantic suspense novels I have read this year." -- Hattie Boyd, Reader To Reader

"Ice Princess is a Five Star winner and comes highly recommended..." -- Charlene Smith, Simegen

"FIVE STARS!!!...It's a keeper!" -- Word Museum

Product Description
Zach Taylor and Claudia Stuart have been at odds with each other for five years, a feud that masks the desire each truly feels. After a night of wine and gambling, they wake to find themselves married to each other. Disgust turns to a partnership when they discover they must use their marriage as a front to find a killer.

Forced in close companionship, can passion tear down the wall between them before a power-hungry madman kills them both?

Product Details

• Paperback: 202 pages
• Publisher: Amber Quill Press, LLC (October 25, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592799809
• ISBN-13: 978-1592799800
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,373,000 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Passionate, Intense, and a Wild Romantic Ride, December 18, 2002

By	Andrea Collins (Ann Arbor, Michigan) - See all my reviews

One of the best things about 'Ice Princess' is that familiar characters from 'Always Faithful' (the previous book in the trillogy) are the main characters. The hero and heroine are great! They struggle against their love throughout the book, which is always entertaining, but passion and devotion are difficult forces to fight. The book's plot focuses upon the issue of spousal abuse, and the authors' sensitive and honest look at this terrible act is refreshing. The hero, Zach Taylor, and the heroine, Claudia Stuart, are forced to team up in order to stop the abuser and solve a murder mystery. They become targets themselves and the excitement builds! The book is set on a Marine Corps base in the California desert (Twenty-Nine Palms) and the scenery and local bits of color really make the book entertaining. I really enjoyed this book, it is an entertaining story and well-written. I can't wait for the final book in the series! I recommend this series to everyone who enjoys romances.

5.0 out of 5 stars A keeper!, December 30, 2002

By	Carolan Ivey "Carolan Ivey - Romance that wil... (USA) - See all my reviews

Catherine Snodgrass's voice is fresh and unique. All her books are keepers! Don't miss this one or QUEST FOR GILLIAN'S HEART!

1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Viva Las Vegas, December 22, 2002

By	HallowKitty (Honolulu, HI United States) - See all my reviews

This is the second book of a story that began with "Always Faithful" which starred the heroine's brother.

Zach Taylor has always had a crush on Claudia Stuart, his best friend's younger sister. Claudia's not really immune to him either but they've hidden the attraction behind constant bickering until they day they get rip roaring drunk and end up married in Vegas.

Both of them had the time of their lives on their wedding night although neither really remembers the details. Zach isn't all that unhappy with their marriage but Claudia is still in bickering mode and wants a divorce asap, so Zach goes along with it.

Zach is a lawyer with the US Marines and Claudia is an undercover reporter. Claudia stumbles on a body while jogging which happens to be that of a marine. Guess which lawyer is assigned the case? Give this reader a cigar! For one reason or other, both of them want in on this mystery and they end up using their marriage as a cover for some investigation, moving in across the street from the murder suspect --- the wife of a high ranking officer.

While well-written overall, the love story gets rather overpowered by the battered wife issue that is being explored here. Romance also takes a back seat to solving the mystery, it seemed, because I remember more details about the clues they researched than anything about the hero and heroine's relationship.

As readers of "Always Faithful" may remember, Claudia has a self-centered, Machiavellian father. Due to his interference with Claudia's early love life, she has been emotionally scarred, which explains why she is wary of relationships. Still, it felt like Claudia and Zach's resistance to their attraction to each other was dragged out a bit too much and for no solid reason.

Lastly, the constant, well-meant meddling by Claudia's brother and sister-in-law just annoyed me rather than warmed my heart at their concern.

It kept my attention but at the end I was left feeling rather flat --- a promising story that didn't quite follow through.