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Talk of the Town

Talk of the Town, November 2008
by Karen Hawkins

Pocket
Featuring: Nick Sheppard; Roxie Treymayne
432 pages
ISBN: 141656022X
EAN: 9781416560227
Mass Market Paperback
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"Former lovers' roles have been reversed -- he's now the good guy and she's the bad girl."

Fresh Fiction Review

Talk of the Town
Karen Hawkins

Reviewed by Stacey Herman
Posted November 15, 2008

Romance Contemporary

Roxie Treymayne Parker was living as a "Raleigh Wife," arm candy for her lawyer husband until she found out that "cheater" was the newest additional to his resume. A bit of a goodie two-shoes, she ditches her sensible clothes in an effort to shake up her life. She dyes her hair blonde, gets some short skirts and some "do-me" heals. Oh, and don't forget the naval piercing. She thought a nice- girl-gone-bad makeover would make her feel better, but it didn't. She still fell apart when the divorce was finalized.

Back in her small hometown, Roxie's mother begins to suffer health problems. Roxie and her brother Mark make the trip to Glory with Roxie's maid Tundy to assist. The vixen-like Roxie rolls into town and immediately comes face-to-face with an old high school flame -- Nick. Nick is a reformed bad-boy- gone-good trying to be sensible and honorable as the town cop. Clearly the flame begins to flicker again for these two. Only this time the roles are reversed. He's the "good guy" and she's the "bad girl."

This scenario is backdrop to a dramatic, pretentious mother with health problems and one very colorful maid. Roxie certainly has her work cut out for her. Luckily she finds some time to play too!

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SUMMARY

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Hawkins pens a delightfully sexy tale of modern love in a small Southern town.


Do Blondes Have More Fun?
Newly divorced Roxie Treymayne is dying to find out. After years of being the perfect Southern lady, all she ended up with was a cheating husband. So she goes bombshell blond, gets a provocatively placed tattoo, and prepares to live it up as a Bad Girl. But then her mother falls ill...and Roxie is forced to return to Glory, North Carolina.

He'd Love to Know.
Once the town bad boy, Nick Sheppard is now Glory's highly respected sheriff. When the hot blonde he stops for speeding turns out to be formerly prim Homecoming Queen Roxanne Treymayne, Nick doesn't quite know where to look -- though he'd like a much closer one at the tattoo peeking from her shorts.

But It Takes Two to Tango.
Roxie and Nick had a steamy fling in high school, but a love affair between a Southern princess and a boy from the wrong side of the tracks was doomed from the start. Now they have a second chance. Can they get it right? Or will they just end up...the talk of the town?


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