WHAT WHITE BOYZ WANT
Crystal Bright, Lena Matthews
Parker Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-60043-029-9
March 2008
Contemporary Romance- Multicultural

BITTER BALL
Crystal B. Bright

Danika Grooms and a group of friends have been attending the “Bitter Ball” held on Valentine’s Day for the past couple of years. The people that attend this party are people that have no special person in their lives, so they get together with the hopes of meeting that special someone. Danika happens to be G. T. Pitall’s banker and friend, so this year she has special plans for her friend, G.T. Pitall. Although she is looking for Mr. Right she bets G.T. that she will find him his Ms. Right at this year’s ball. Taking the bet he in turn promises to hook her up with the perfect man. What they end up with is a burning desire for each other and spending the night together putting out the flames. The morning after leaves G.T. insulting her and her vowing never to speak with him again, but seeing her getting involved with the wrong man changes everything. Forgetting his anger he sets out to protect her from Mr. Wrong and finds something better, true love. A banker and a farmer who would have ever believed it would be possible.

THE HEART WRANGLER
Lena Matthews

Driving across the country to a place where it would be dry and hot was not exactly what Georgia believed she would be doing. But here she is smelly, hot, and tired of driving to reach the town of Bellefontaine, where she will begin a new life. Following her best friend Amber and her brother Sterling to a place because of love shocked her. Hoping that Sterling would finally realize that she was a woman and not like a sister was worth a try, especially since she couldn’t get him out of her mind. Sterling did miss her but never expected his feelings to affect him the way they did upon seeing her again. His nickname for her was Trouble, but his feelings for her were more trouble than he ever remembered.

SEX ON SOUTH BEACH
Seressia Glass

Every woman needs a little R&R to help her gain her balance on life. For Kat a weekend trip to South Beach with a friend helped her to get relax and live again. It started with a little pampering, then good food and finally a little something extra when she engages in a fling with the restaurant owner. Not really a shy person, Kat enjoys a little flirting with Pietro, a Sicilian man that knows a beautiful woman when he sees her. From the moment Kat entered his restaurant he knew he wanted her. Not wasting any time Pietro and Kat spent every moment together enjoying each other right up to the moment she leaves Miami. Returning home Kat thinks that she has ended the best time of her life, especially since she loses contact with the one man that makes her feel like a woman. Thinking that she has lost him forever she gives up but finds him in the last place she would have thought to look.

BAYOU TEMPTRESS
Raquel Taylor

There are no rules for when love can be found. So in a small town love strikes Brett Romano and Deputy Sheriff Aja when they work together to find Brett’s sister. Brett and his sister were in a plane crash where he fought monsters that took his sister to an undisclosed place. Trying to prove to everyone that he isn’t crazy, Brett is surprised to find out that Aja was really looking into his sister’s disappearance. For Aja the search had become personal because there were a few other young women missing. The sheriff had blocked her every way he could to put an end to any kind of search of any of the ladies, but Brett gave her the fire she needed to move forward. Not down playing his search for his sister, Brett’s feelings for Aja were just as strong so he set out to get everything he wanted; Aja and his sister. For Aja and Brett satisfying their lust for each other wasn’t their biggest problem, staying alive to enjoy each other was. Their goal was to find his sister fast and to take advantage of every opportunity they would be given to make love while they could.

COWBOY COOL
Simone Harlow

Veronica Kennedy has just made a deal with the devil, her rich daddy, to her they were one and the same. Her father, Marvin, owns one of the biggest record labels and has decided that he now wants to add country music to his label. Not just any country artist but the best, J.B. Devlin, but he isn’t interested in anything that has been offered. That is until Marvin offers up his daughter Veronica to reel him in. Not necessarily excited to do her father’s dirty work, Veronica has a weal spot for the girls that she mentors and would do anything for them. So with the promise of twenty-five million dollars from her father is she gets J.B. to sign with the label she flies to Texas with plans to deliver. What neither J.B. nor Veronica expected was a mutual attraction that would lead to other things.

These stories show you that love can be found in places you would least expect to find it. Breaking through barriers of race, culture, and the spiritual world, these authors have written about how people let their hearts rule instead of their heads. Each story has a different twist but ends with two people finding that special person, and that’s what love is all about. Add this one to your reading list if you like variety and quick stories.

Reviewed by Lora McDonald
Rating 3