I just finished reading Tessie Bradford’s latest release “Pleasuring
Anne” and I loved it!
Anne Kramer was a character easy to love and identify with. She’s
an independent, suffer-no-fools romance novelist who has endured a protracted
dry-spell and hasn’t had a real life playmate in several years. To add fuel to
Anne’s inner fire, her AWOL muse roars back into her life bringing visions of
naughty toys and scorching hot fantasies with him. After enjoying a very steamy
shower, Anne’s imagination is off to the races and she’s ready to sit down and
transform some of her unsatisfied lush into quality writing time when the law
comes knocking on her door.
Two hunky cops show up. Detective
Garth Slaiter, is the epitome tall dark and divine in a uniform and his partner
Detective Mark Collins is worth chasing too. Unfortunately Anne is forced to
greet them with wet hair and wearing lazy-girl cotton pants and a tee shirt. It
gets worse. The police inform Anne that a man she has recently gone on a casual
date with is a con artist. She’s left feeling a bit defensive as an impromptu
police Q&A begins in her living room.
Detective
Slaiter—Garth is quick to take charge and ask Anne for her help getting a con man
off the streets. He’s smart, direct and professional. Anne’s detailed
description of the con man’s lame approach on their first and only date
provides the detectives with the first useful information they need to stop
this creep.
Of course Anne
is eager to help stop a man who is robbing women but she responds to Detective
Slaiter’s tough guy alpha dog authority in all the wrong ways. Garth is a
distracting turn on and the middle of a criminal investigation isn’t the best
time for this sort of full-blown reaction to a man. When the topic of her alter
ego is raised, it’s squirm time. The detectives ask about Anne’s line of work.
As an author of fifteen erotic romance novels including a slightly kinky “Connie’s Cops”, she
has plenty to blush about.
By now the living
room windows are fogging up. Anne is interested in Garth and Garth is showing a
lot of um… professional interest in her, and damn-they have a real problem on
their hands—a con artist is on the loose robbing women and embezzling checks.
Garth abruptly
asks Anne to call the con man and ask him out on a second date as a sting. Anne
agrees to do it and this is where the story really starts to roll into Lustville.
We see Anne through Garth’s POV and hot dang he’s mighty impressed with her for
all the right reasons the least of which is clever Anne thinks like a detective,
and he loves it. It quickly becomes apparent each has met their match. The
attraction to so strong that once they are alone Garth can’t resist kissing
Anne and immediately has to do a little back peddling.
Pleasuring Anne
is a romance for grown-ups. Both Anne and Garth are in their forties and can
appreciate things like a sweet old-fashioned date to a miniature golf course or
a super-heated romp in the sheets cuffed and frisked by a dominant detective ;
)
Hey we’re all
adults here, lets have a little fun. This story is detail rich, character
driven and the dialog is a joy to read. Anne and Garth felt like real people
with well-rounded lives and that speaks loudly to Ms. Bradford’s skill as an
author. There’s so much packed into this beautifully written short novel, it
feels like more. Most of all the reader will feel the mutual attraction and
growing love Garth and Anne stumble into. It’s wonderful. If you are looking
for a book that can be read in an evening and offers smart, funny, mature
characters who know a good thing when they see it—you must give Pleasuring Anne
a try!
I give
Pleasuring Anne 5 Stars.
Tessie Bradford “Pleasuring
Anne” available Wednesday January 22nd from Resplendence Publishing
http://www.resplendencepublishing.com/53.html
Happy Release Day Tessie!
XXOO Kat
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