Love Spell
August 2002
On Sale: August 1, 2002
Featuring: Kate Matthews; Zack Jackson
384 pages ISBN: 0505525038 EAN: 9780505525031 Paperback Add to Wish List
History professor and single mother Kate Matthews believes
in love, marriage, and happily-ever-after--she just
doesn't believe they'll ever happen to her. She's had
terrible luck with men and she's all but given up on
romance. Her life has fallen into a predictable pattern of
work, caring for an unruly 12-year-old daughter, and
dealing with her neurotic, crime-obsessed mother. When
she's offered the chance to serve as the historical
consultant on a movie called "Ooh La La!" that's being
shot in New Orleans, she jumps at the opportunity to
impress her university's tenure committee and add a little
excitement to her life.
He Believes in Expiration Dates
Hollywood movie director Zack Jackson knows the score.
Everyone likes to throw fairy dust on the topics of love
and romance, but the truth is, they're just gussied up
business arrangements based on an equitable exchange of
goods and services. All relationship fade and die. That's
why he insists on setting an expiration date at the
beginning of a love affair, so both parties can walk away
before things turn sour.
The only thing that brings lasting satisfaction is making
movies--but if Zack's next film isn't a hit, his career
will be over. He's convinced that the true story of a
prize fighter and a "sporting girl" in the Ooh La La
Brothel of New Orleans in 1898 is just the ticket, but it
needs some added fictional action to jazz things up. When
a stubborn female history professor tries to make him
stick to the facts, and just the facts, he's determined to
do anything--including seducing her--to get his way.