Simon & Schuster
November 2011
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Featuring: Axel Mackenzie; Ellery Sharpe
384 pages ISBN: 1451612648 EAN: 9781451612646 Paperback Add to Wish List
From the old steel mills of Pittsburgh to the picturesque hills of Scotland, romance novels save the day in RITA Awardβwinning author Gwyn Cready's fun and sensuous take on literature and modern-day love.
When snobbish book critic Ellery Sharpe screws up at Vanity Place magazine, her boss assigns her the ultimate punishment: write an ode to romance novels, a genre she considers the literary equivalent of word search puzzles. To make matters worse, he hires her sexy former party boy ex, Axel Mackenzie, to shoot the photos. Axel really wants the project to succeed. For one, the magazine will double his fee if he convinces strong-willed Ellery to write a story no woman can resist. Besides,getting Ellery to fall for romance novels might be just the push she needs to believe people can change . . . even him.
At his sister's advice, Axel gives Ellery a copy of Kiltlander, a much-adored romance whose warrior hero is utterly irresistible. To her dismay, Ellery finds herself secretly falling in love with the storyβand with Axel, who's drawing his own lessons from the book's compelling hero. With her carefully crafted image of herself crumbling and her dream job on the line, will Ellery risk it all to make the leap from tight-lipped literati to happily-ever-after heroine?
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