WHITE HOT
Mollie Lavender just moved to Palm Beach to start a public relations business and things are going swimmingly. So far her clients include a dog, a ninety-year-old ventriloquist, and a grumpy astronaut. But when she runs into hard-hitting reporter Jeremiah Tabak, she learns that even a decade isn't enough time to heal a broken heart.
Society parties aren't Jeremiah's usual beat, but there's a cat burglar on the loose and a hot tip suggests his old flame is right in the thick of things. Seeing Mollie stirs up old desires...and new suspicions. Is it coincidence she attended every gala where the burglar struck? Jeremiah thinks not. The only way Mollie can prove her innocence is to help set a dangerous trap to catch the real thief. But Jeremiah's touch triggers powerful emotions...and the next thing stolen might be Mollie's heart.
A decade later, a successful Mollie opens up her own PR firm in Fort Lauderdale. Jeremiah is also based in the same area. However, neither are aware of that fact until an informant tells him that Mollie has attended every social event in which a cat burglar has struck. Jeremiah quickly gets involved with Mollie, who realizes that her love for him never ended. As the pair struggles with their feelings and fears, they must also deal with a cat burglar, who will go to any lengths to remain anonymous.
Whether it be New England, California, or Florida, Carla Neggers brings with her her own brand of Yankee humor and warmth into the story line of every one of her novels. WHITE HOT is romantic suspense written the way the sub-genre was intended to be: readers anxiously awaiting what happens next. The audience will adore the vulnerable hero and the patient but strong heroine, and the story line will burn their fingers. Ms. Neggers turns up the audience's internal furnaces into the red zone with this torrid thriller.
Harriet Klausner
She has gotten so much better than this.
Our heroine, a musician, had a short affair with our hero, an investigative reporter ten years ago. She has come back to Florida to find herself.
One of our hero's snitches, tells him that she is probably involved with a cat burgler. So our hero has to find out because he still has feelings for her (possibly he is just nosy).
Anyway we are led on through the book by unsubstantiated inuendos. It is clear that if she is innocent, someone else must be guilty.
But not only do we have a jewel thief, we have an enforcer, and a very disfunctional family. I knew who the thief was all the time. But the rest of this boring mess was unbelievable to me.
I usually love Carla Neggers books, and You will too. But this reprint was before she hit her stride.
I think publishers try to trick us into buying older books with new covers and as you can tell, They got me.
