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Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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SKIN

Skin, April 2007
by Karin Tabke

Pocket Books
Featuring: Francesca Donatello; Reese Bronson
384 pages
ISBN: 1416524924
EAN: 9781416524922
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"When a cop bares it all for a Mafia princess, more than passion ignites!"

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SKIN
Karin Tabke

Reviewed by Morgan Chilson
Posted March 15, 2007

Romance Erotica Sensual

Francesca Donatello has been trying to prove her savvy in her mafia family since she could walk. As a last-ditch effort to win respect in the only legit business the family runs, she's turning their Skin magazine into a real skin magazine -- and that means naked men!

Her first interviewee for the job -- whom she calmly asks to drop his pants -- is truly stunning, in every way. But he's a bit cocky and since there's such a strong attraction between them, Frankie would rather hire anyone else. She made a huge past mistake in mixing business with pleasure and she's not going to do so again.

But a few interviews later, she admits that Reese has the charisma to make her magazine successful and that means burying her feelings for him. What she doesn't know is that she's inviting the enemy into the den, because Reese is an undercover cop.

This is a fun erotica book playing on that classic attraction between the Mafia Don's princess daughter and the cop coming in to bring him down. (In this case, Frankie's father was just murdered, so it's about infiltrating the mob in general.) A slow beginning with awkward dialogue and what felt like forced sexual tension dissipated quickly into a story that I stayed up reading until 1 a.m. I couldn't figure out whodunit and so I couldn't put it down. I've said it before and it's worth repeating -- hot sex with a plot is worth your time. Enjoy!

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SUMMARY

Feisty Francesca Donatello needs the sexiest man on the planet to launch her magazine SKIN. Undercover cop Reese Bronson needs the job to infiltrate the Donatello organized crime family and learn who assassinated Francesca’s mob boss father. While Reese sheds his clothes for close encounters of the very personal kind, and Francesca captures it on film, someone decides Francesca needs to join her father. On the run, they dodge bullets and bodies but not each other. From San Francisco to Carmel to the rugged plains of Wyoming the two shed secrets, clothes and inhibitions, and learn that to survive they must trust each other.

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