RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW

Author: HelenKay Dimon ISBN: 0758222238 3/2008 CONTEMPORARY Publisher: KENSINGTON BRAVA

IT'S NOT YOU, IT'S ME. For Gabby Pearson, being dumped in public before the dessert course has to be the lowest of the low-especially when it's the old, "It's not you, it's me" speech. Honestly, how about something original: "I have five minutes to live" (very possible); "It's not you, it's the voices in my head" (thanks for the warning); or "I am such a powerful sexual being I could put you into a coma with one kiss" (wishful thinking). Not that Gabby would ever know since Reed Larkin never bothered to take her to bed. Why does a girl bother (to shave)? The only thing left to do is offer the guy a goodbye-forever drink.on his head. IT'S ME WANTING YOU COMPLETELY. Damn. Reed did his job-he walked away from Gabby rather than drag her into his unstable life and danger. Now he's wearing her full glass of wine instead of throwing her onto his sheets. It doesn't help that the woman is smart as hell and could stop a man's breath with that wide smile and those shapely curves. Gabby has it all, and Reed wants every inch of her. And now the joke's on him, because new intel says Gabby has just become his assignment: He has one day to win her back, get information from her she may not know she has, and somehow protect her at the same time. RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW. PROBLEM? The stakes are high. The odds are impossible. And the mutual attraction is as hot and strong as Gabby's anger. And Reed can only hope his next speech-"It's you, baby, it's definitely you."-will be the start of something wild, something crazy, something dangerous, something wonderful.

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

HelenKay Dimon writes a sexy novel of two people who aren't exactly what they present themselves to be, but are just right for each other in her latest novel, RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW.

Reed Larkin's latest case for Department of Special Projects, or DSP, a "secret" agency that is part of Homeland Security, has put him in very close contact with Gabby Pearson, who also happens to work for the government. And when Reed thinks that Gabby is no longer tied to the case he's working on, he dumps her to prevent from dragging her further into his complicated life. But new information puts Gabby right back into the thick of things, and Reed has to get her back in his good graces. fast. He'll use whatever tactic he has to, even playing dirty (which he happens to be pretty good at). Gabby won't know what hit her, or so Reed thinks. For Gabby has already put Reed out of her mind! But when he returns with hot and heavy kisses and roaming hands, she practically has to give the guy another chance, right? Both of them are in for some surprises as they learn the other isn't what they originally thought them to be. But even so, they can't discount the fact that they have started to feel for each other on a deeper level. Will they be able to overcome the lies told in the past in order to give their future together a chance? You'll have to find that out on your own.

I really enjoyed Dimon's latest steamy novel. Fast-paced, fun, and even zany in parts with all the lies and secret identities, it was a definite sit-through-and-finish-it novel. In the beginning, both Reed and Gabby had presented themselves to each other as something they weren't, so when they find out their true identities, they realize that they actually work on the same team. Much of the novel is them unraveling their identities while they find themselves falling into love with one another. And I must say that the love story between the two was one of the more sexy ones I have read as of late. From their first kiss, which actually happened after they had broken up, until their HEA, there was a definite draw between the two that neither one of them could resist, no matter how much they wanted to. It was exactly what I look for from my romances—hot and sexy and not afraid of being so.

So if you like your romances with characters you can root for and plenty of provocative and sensual romps, then you will definitely want to get a copy of HelenKay Dimon's RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW as the novel offers up all those ingredients and so much more!

Maame Kanbi