Melanie Vanderpool was recently promoted to mid-level management at her Professional Massage place of employment. Suddenly, the fact that her company was losing money and facing a serious cash-flow problem, gave her supervisor a reason to put her promotion on the line. He told her that her job depended upon finding new products for inclusion in their product line!

When she and a co-worker, Tommy Joe, left for the convention in Las Vegas, Tommy Joe intended to get more involved with Melanie, but Melanie was interested in her product development. Several things started happening which caused her grief! She met, and was strongly attracted to, the CEO of LeatherWorks, LTD, Rob Black; every time their paths crossed, sparks flew! Then strange things started happening—her designs were showing up at another company before she could get them approved by her boss. He thought she might be copying someone else’s work! And she was mistaken for a porn star! Could her life get any more confusing?

Cards Never Lie is a book with a lot of action on-going simultaneously. It would be easy to become bogged down with so many characters and so much “behind the scenes” sabotage; however, Heather Hiestand does a good job of developing her plot to eliminate conflict and confusion. There are a couple of times I had a little trouble keeping track of everyone and their roles but it was cleared up quickly.

The story presented here is a good one and my interest never waned; Melanie seemed like she had a black cloud over her head. Poor child was exposed to so much perplexity that, I’m sure, she thought she was losing her mind. This is believable because seldom, in real life, does only one thing “happen” which so drastically changes situations. That there were problems from more than one angle makes the awkwardness more credible. Ms. Hiestand is an author I was unfamiliar with, but would recommend her work to others.

This work is a good, solid book which made for an interesting read which I’m glad to have read.

Overall rating:
Sensuality rating: Very sensual

Reviewer: Brenda Talley
February 19, 2007