RISKY PLAY

A
European soccer superstar and a wine heiress have an unforgettable weekend in
Puerto Vallarta, but when real life resumes, their happily-ever-after is in for
an uphill battle.

Both
suffering from heartbreak, Mackenzie DuPont and Slade Rodriguez meet on the
plane to Puerto Vallarta. Their trips are supposed to give them both time to
heal from their partners’ betrayals, but they end up having a steamy affair
instead. When, in the middle of the night, Slade gets the terrible news that
his father has died, he disappears without a trace. Since Mackenzie and Slade
gave each other fake names, there are no hopes they’ll have a reunion. A month
later, Mackenzie takes a job with the Blue Service Assistant Company, unable to
go back to her family’s business just yet since her former fiance still works
there. She doesn’t expect her first client to be Slade, especially when it
seems like all traces of the tender, passionate man she met in Puerto Vallarta
are long gone. Instead, Slade has turned into an angry, bitter shell of a man,
blaming Mackenzie for the fact that he didn’t call his father on the night he
died. Bursting with tension and a heaping dose of melodrama, Slade and
Mackenzie’s path to a happily-ever-after feels very much like a soap opera. Not
only do they have to contest with Slade’s grief and Mackenzie’s trust issues,
but there are several outside forces trying to keep them apart. While
over-the-top with its scheming exes and frequent masculine posturing, this one
promises to be a compulsive, engrossing romance for the right readers. However,
the constant emotional whiplash requires patience and a strong tolerance for
contrived, manufactured drama.

Truly
a love-it-or-hate-it contemporary romance.