SWEPT AWAY

Author: Toni Blake ISBN: 0061135887 9/2006 CONTEMPORARY Publisher: AVON RED

Five days before her wedding to a man she admires but doesn't love, Katrina Spencer escapes to a private island. There, she can let the sun warm her body as she contemplates a future without the passion she craves. Then she lazily opens her eyes, only to see Brock Denton. muscular, half-naked, the one who got away - the one who makes her body tingle with arousal. How Brock arrived is a mystery, but it's clear he's in danger. Kat faces danger, too, in the arms of a man who is determined to free her from her every inhibition with his hands, his mouth, and more! Kat has five steamy days and five sultry nights to make up her mind - return home to a man she doesn't love, or satisfy her wildest passions with Brock and let her herself be. swept away.

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

Kat Spencer is a woman who knows how to have a good time. She is beautiful, wealthy, and can be a bit of a wild child at times. It is for that very reason that she has decided to take off for a week to a deserted island to try and get her priorities straight. In just a weeks time she will be marrying influential and equally wealthy Ian Zeller, and she has to remind herself of what her new role in life will be. She plans to take this one last little moment in time to get all of her thoughts together and set her mind on the job at hand—becoming June Cleaver. What she never counted on was a memory from her past literally surfacing right on her beach, out in the middle of nowhere—and right where she can't hide from it.

Brock Denton... Come on, ladies, does that name not scream sex appeal?? Because if it doesn't, let me tell you, his character certainly does. As a gorgeous FBI agent whose cover has been blown, he has no other choice but to literally jump ship in the middle of the ocean and swim for the closest shore—that being Kat's getaway island. Seeing Kat again, and in such an unlikely place, is like a blast from the past for Brock. Immediately he is drawn to a night ten years ago when he turned down the favors that Kat wanted to give him.... the night he hurt her horribly.

I love Kat and Brock together. Kat is feisty and has a great sense of humor, which Brock shares, and they are both willing to do anything for each other, even at the cost of their own lives. For Kat it is an eye opener of momentous proportions that this "nightmare"(as she calls it) from her past has shown up just a week before her marriage to another man. The irony of this is not lost on Kat at all, as she knows what is at stake if she gives up her life with Ian. But, shouldn't every girl go after her hearts desire, first and foremost?

Kat and Brock are one hot couple. From the first word of the first page of SWEPT AWAY, the sexual tone is set for the entire book—and it gets better with every page! No one can write a contemporary romance like Toni Blake. She brings her characters to life and leaves a reader wanting more with every word that they read.

Kristal Gorman