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Author Profile: Heidi Rice

Author Name: Heidi Rice

Website: http://www.heidi-rice.com/
Bio: Heidi was born and bred and still lives in London, England with her two sons, who love to bicker, her husband who, luckily for everyone, has the patient of Job and a hamster that looks suspiciously like a rat.
As much as Heidi adores The Big Smoke she also loves America and every two years she and her best friend leave hubby and kids (and rat) behind and Thelma and Louise it across the States (although they always leave out the driving off a cliff bit). She’s been a film buff since her early teens and a romance junkie almost as long. She indulged her first love by being a film reviewer for the last ten years. Then a few years ago she decided to spice up her life by writing romance.

It was a wild and wonderful ride to her first Harlequin/Mills and Boon novel and she’s still going strong, becoming a RITA finalist in 2008 with her second novel The Mile High Club and topping the Waldenbooks Series Romance Bestseller list twice in a row in February 2009 with her fourth book Pleasure, Pregnancy and a Proposition. She became a USA Today best-selling author with her sixth book Public Affair, Secretly Expecting in 2010, and is still basking in the glow of that one!

Titles: Bedded By a Bad Boy, The Mile High Club, They Tycoon’s Very Personal Assistant, Pleasure Pregnancy and a Proposition, Hot Shot Tycoon Indecent Proposal, Public Affair Secretly Expecting, Unfinished Business with the Duke, Surf Sea and a Sexy Stranger, Cupcakes and Killer Heels

See my review of Surf Sea and a Sexy Stranger
Visit Heidi’s Blog!
Bio Retrieved from Heidi-rice.com

May 26, 2011
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Molly Cooper’s Dream Date by Barbara Hannay
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Molly Cooper’s Dream Date by Barbara Hannay

The second book that came in my fantastic package from Mills and Boon was Molly Cooper’s Dream Date by Barbara Hannay. Molly Cooper is living in Australia but desperate to visit London. She loves everything about London- especially the men. Molly knows she is destined to at least have one date with the perfect London gentleman. When she finds a house-swapping opportunity with Patrick Knight, a city banker that is desperate to escape and finally write a novel, it seems it was meant to be. Molly charters off to London and sets up house in Patrick’s fancy digs, while Patrick can finally get away from his job and just enjoy life and writing while staying in Molly’s cozy cottage. But while Molly seems to be having the time of her life, something feels off to Patrick. He suspects it might have to do with all the emails Molly keeps sending him. It sounds strangely like this could be the dream girl for him….
I loved Molly Cooper’s Dream Date! It was a fun read, and pretty quick to get through, and I really indentified with both Molly and Patrick. It was interesting to read their thoughts on each other’s lives and homes, and to sense over time that they should be together. Molly’s character was full of life and ready to take on any new challenges, and Patrick was a bit brooding in the beginning but quickly opened up to his new life in Australia. I also enjoyed that it was Patrick that first fell for Molly and not the other way around. I don’t think I would have enjoyed this book as much if it was the typical girl trying to snag the guy plot. This novel was so quick to get through because a lot of the writing was emails between Molly and Patrick, or excerpts from Molly’s diary. Sometimes when authors go that route it makes the story lack a strong bond to the characters, but Hannay did an excellent job at making sure that didn’t happen. I felt the emails heightened the story instead of hindering it, and I was desperate to get to the end to find out if Molly and Patrick would get together. A definite recommendation from me!
[Rating: 4.5]

April 27, 2011
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Surf Sea and a Sexy Stranger by Heidi Rice
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Surf Sea and a Sexy Stranger by Heidi Rice

Mills and Boon were so kind this year to send me a wonderful package with chocolates, face masks, and of course- two books! The first I read from M&B was Surf Sea and a Sexy Stranger by Heidi Rice. Maddy Westmore is on lifeguard duty when she has to rescue a man from drowning. The deliciously sexy man turns out to be millionaire entrepreneur Ryan King, though Maddy doesn’t know who he is. Rye has turned into a bit of recluse since a motorbike accident, which left him with a bad knee and inability to perform sexually. He is standoffish to Maddy after she pulls him from the water, mainly because he is embarrassed, but also because he is extremely turned on by her. Maddy insists on checking up on him after the surfing accident, which leads to a surprising night of passion. Maddy, who has a shoddy family background thanks to an affair by her father and has been used by several past boyfriends, can’t believe she gave in so easily to Rye’s charms. And Rye can’t believe he was able to get it up. The pair decide to give “just friends with benefits” a shot, but it is clearly not what they both want. But when their complicated backgrounds come to light, Maddy and Rye need to decide if they could make a relationship work, or if they are just not meant to be.
Surf Sea and a Sexy Stranger has a lot of romance and passion between the pages, but I kept finding myself a bit bored. I enjoyed Maddy’s character, she was jaded yet innocent and I was really rooting for her, but Rye didn’t connect with me so much. His womanizing and egotistical ways was a big turn off, so I didn’t quite understand the attraction to Maddy and vice versa. Trying to be just friends with no strings attached was clearly not working from the beginning, and Maddy’s outright resistance to date her boss (Rye) wasn’t too convincing, and I think that is where the story fell flat for me. And there are a lot of sex scenes, which isn’t really my cup of tea either. I did think the writing was very good though, this is my first read from Rice but it is evident she is very talented. The dialogue and description of the surroundings were both excellent, and I think I will try another by this author and see if I enjoy it more. Overall though, it was an interesting read and I would recommend this book. I would give it a try and see what you think of Maddy and Rye and their complicated romance.
[Rating: 3]

April 25, 2011
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