Dr. Mikhaila Voyanovski Durand, the love child of French actress, Simone, and Russian Mikhail Voyanovski, International billionaire made rich from paper factories and timber holdings in Russia and the Ukraine, has her life plan just about set. Her job is great. She has a MBA in mergers and acquisitions, and her career holds promise. She is a professor at the University of Southern California and expects to be tenured shortly. The man in her life is Dr. Landan Winslow Clark, a leading Cardiologist at the UCLA Medical Center, who has asked her to move in with him. She is going to St. Petersburg to visit her father for two weeks and plans to tell him she has no desire to be part of the Voyanovski Empire. She has other plans for her future. She can almost see the house, 2.5 children, a dog, and Landan in her not too distant future.

Mika's life is turned inside out when her father dies as she arrives in Russia. She is named temporary CEO of his company but gets involved in a corporate deal that she finds exciting. Her corporate rival is Jerome Michel de Villiers, a jaw- dropping handsome, delicious, desirable, handsome man who even has a french accent. He is known as Rome and has a reputation as a rake, a seducer and womanizer. The attraction between them sizzles from the first moment, via a long distance telephone conversation. He arrives hours later using his private plane and they have a memorable day and night together. The settings for this romp are luxurious and gorgeous: .glamorous Paris, stately St. Petersburg, and idyllic Province. Ms. Mulry has a knack for descriptions, effortlessly transporting us with her characters to these delightful locales. The love affair has twists and turns. They meet unexpectedly at a wedding in Provence and the heat intensifies. Each time they meet the attraction grows stronger. Their motorboat ride in and out of the canals in Venice took my breath away and I have since, re-read that entire chapter.

ROULETTE is my favorite read in a long time. The characters stay in your heart long after that last page. The simple, short ending in the Epilogue has me racing to find more books by Megan Mulry. This one was perfect, just like Miki and Rome. Excuse me as I now go back and re-read several more chapters. ROULETE is good, so very, very good, Ms Mulry.