Saturday, May 12, 2007

Stealing Amy by Randy Jeanne


Stealing Amy by Randy Jeanne

Triskelion Publishing


Bad things keep happening to Amy Harrington, and none of them are her fault. Someone stole her identity and seems to have run off to Mexico with it. When her car is towed, another credit card declined and she is arrested for the second time, Amy decides to take matters in to her own hands and track down her identity thief.

When Amy meets Nick Cavenaugh, an architect on his way to the location where she has pinpointed the suspect, she uses his lack as of an assistant to her advantage. He’s a hot man who needs help getting around in Mexico and Amy is just the girl to help.

As straightlaced, uptight Nick and carefree and casual Amy spend more time together they start driving each other crazy, and not always in a bad way. Unfortunately when Amy learns that the INS now suspect her for smuggling illegal aliens across the border she ends up in a lot more trouble than she bargained for and someone wants her dead.

I liked this book from beginning to end. It was a fun and fast read. The heroine made me laugh out loud and her attitude about everything made me wish that I thought more like that. Even as someone kept taking over her identity and getting her in trouble she tried to carefree. Combine her with the sexy but uptight hero and it made for a great read. Best of all, the heroine saved herself in the end, while Nick had to come to his own conclusions and take care of his own issues that had been plaguing him. The characters were well built and the addition of several side character, including Amy’s rather neurotic mother and the alcohol swilling bad guy with many faces.

I read this all in one sitting. The pacing and tone of the book was well done – there was fun and suspense, a very hard combination but it worked here. I will definitely look forward to reading more from this author.

I give this 5 Ayres (RORR)

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