Hayward Campbell also moved to Montana for solitude. His wife and two-year-old son were killed in a car accident for which he blamed himself. His older brother, Clinton, with whom he worked, tried to get him to return home. Hayward was rich, good looking and the catch of their small town. He didn’t want anything to do with women—they tended to want his money and not him. The first thing he did when he noticed his own reaction to his new next-door neighbor was have her investigated. This was to insure that she wasn’t planting herself in their small town to catch him.

Marie Rochelle has become a favorite author to me. I love her style and how she interweaves her emotionally charged love scenes with a storyline that has depth and intrigue. Her uninhibited sexual scenes are so well written that it’s like living through them. The plot of this book was so well developed that I couldn’t wait to see what would happen next.

Her main characters were polar opposites. Rochelle writes the best interracial books I have read. Not only are her characters beautiful, they have such intensity that it is impossible not to love them. Her secondary characters are of great importance to the book’s storyline. There is never a dull moment in a Rochelle novel. I highly recommend this book as a must-read.

Overall rating:
Sensuality rating: Explicit

Reviewer: Brenda Talley
April 8, 2009