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    If You Can't Stand the Heat...

    By Joss Wood

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    Resisting temptation has never been so impossible  

    Living on the edge used to make wild-card war reporter Jack Chapman feel alive. These days he needs some time-out before he burns out. So what better distraction than delectable pastry chef Ellie Evans? She's oh-so-tempting and sleeping right next door! Perfect for a short-term fling! 

    Ellie knows it would be beyond stupid to fall for a guy with ice in his veins who's always on the move. But daredevil Jack is even more irresistible than her death-by-chocolate cakeand saying no has never been Ellie's strongpoint!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarlequin KISS
    Release dateOct 15, 2013
    ISBN9781459255951
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    If You Can't Stand the Heat...
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    Joss Wood

    Joss Wood's  passion for putting black letters on a white screen is only matched by her love of books and travelling and her hatred of making school lunches and ironing. Fueled by coffee and craziness, Joss is a hands on Mom and, after a career in local economic development and business lobbying, she now writes full time. Surrounded by family, friends and books she lives in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa with her husband and two children.

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    • 3/5
      Ellie and Jack shared decent chemistry, however, their feelings developed quicker than I could buy into, here’s a guy whose burnout on the job has left him supposedly unemotional (there’s little evidence of that in the story, you’re mostly just told that’s the case) and then you have a woman deeply hurt by her last entanglement as well as by her war reporter dad’s absences (same profession as Jack), yet despite their baggage in under a week they were hung up on one another and not much longer after that Ellie threw a life altering ultimatum at this guy who she still barely knew. It’s not that the issues between them weren’t relevant or didn’t make sense for their characters, they did, including the ultimatum, just not at such a super early stage of a relationship, there was just this constant feeling like someone had hit the fast-forward button on everything romance related.There were definitely moments I thought were well-written and I appreciated the emotion behind them, particularly a scene when Ellie asserted herself at her bakery, based on that, I wouldn’t hesitate to try another book from this author, it’s just that with this specific book, I couldn’t really get past the pacing issues in the relationship and also, I was kind of disappointed that the unique for Harlequin setting of South Africa didn’t ultimately feel any more unique or detailed than any other random small beach town depiction.