Kiss and Tell

Short Harlequin-style one-offs such as Kiss and Tell always work better when the characters come complete with oodles of off-stage backstory. After all, if we're going to believe that Marshall and Leila fall madly in love and cement a lasting relationship in 277 wide-leaded pages, they'd better have already done most of the heavy-lifting before page one. Brockmann...more

Short Harlequin-style one-offs such as Kiss and Tell always work better when the characters come complete with oodles of off-stage backstory. After all, if we're going to believe that Marshall and Leila fall madly in love and cement a lasting relationship in 277 wide-leaded pages, they'd better have already done most of the heavy-lifting before page one. Brockmann delivers the best of shorts here, with established chemistry and straight-forward plotting that takes advantage of the brevity of the format, as opposed to trying to shoe-horn a longer novel into it. Perfect fun beachy reading, complete with British doctor hotness.   hide