Bad Boys Southern Style

Love Potion # 9 by Joann Ross Roxi Dupree is a witch. She lives in Savannah where she owns a store called Hex Appeal. Sloan Hawthorne is a movie director living in California. They are both friends with Emma and Gabriel Broussard but have never met. Roxi has been having intense erotic dreams lately starring a very handsome mystery man. Sloan has been thinking and dreaming of Roxi after seeing her in a picture that Emma sent him. Sloan has decided that he needs to meet Roxi, so with Emma's help he is coming to Savannah to meet his dream woman. Roxi is everything Sloane dreamed of and more but she is putting restrictions on their relationship right off the bat. Sloan intends to show Roxi that the magic between them is uncontrollable. I needed a breather after reading Love Potion # 9. I assumed it would be sexy and romantic but I didn't know that Sloan was going to blow my mind with his mastery in the bedroom! Roxi is responsive and extremely passionate with Sloan. Her reasoning for being so adamant about not committing to him at first was a little weak though. Love Potion # 9 is intense, erotic and romantic. Midnight Plane To Georgia by E.C. Sheedy Tracy Allson is going to Parasol, Georgia, to help her uncle Tommy start a bed and breakfast. She is headed out on the red-eye. Colson Jones is taking the same red-eye flight to Atlanta. Waiting in the airport for the plane he and Tracy gazes lock and the sparks fly! Once on board they make the connection again and the next thing Colson knows he is headed to Parasol with Tracy. Once there, Tracy and Colson decide to take things further, but will their plan to be lovers for a short time be foiled if they start falling for each other? Midnight Plane To Georgia is a sweet and sexy story. Although Tracy tries, Colson proves very hard to resist with his oozing charm and sex appeal. I probably would have caved a lot sooner! I admired Tracy's need to protect her heart and I loved Colson's persistence. Midnight Plane To Georgia is a fun and sexy story. Fall From Grace by Jill Shalvis Janie Mills is struggling to get away from the stranger holding her down. Janie thought she killed him but she hadn't and now he is demanding to know who she is. Ryan Patrick was in the library trying to find his missing client when he was attacked by the librarian. They are both trying to discover the other's identity. Things get dangerous quickly because someone is after Janie, so Ryan stays by her side to protect her. Throughout the night Janie and Ryan become close and Ryan moves from protector to lover but when the dust settles, will they go their separate ways? Fall From Grace is a fun, suspenseful story with action, drama and sex filling up the pages. Ryan and Janie make a great team. Ryan is sexy and in control and Janie is vulnerable but strong. There are some surprises, hot passion and thrilling getaway's in Fall From Grace. It's a great story! Bad Boys Southern Style offers a variety

Love Potion by Joann Ross is the first story by this author that I had read and I was pleasantly surprised. Superbly written, it is the sensual tale of Roxi Dupree, a witch with a commitment problem and a three date rule and Sloan Hawthorne, a Southern bad boy who put the sex in sexual. Roxi is the type of heroine that I like - full of sass, intelligence and humor. Sloan is a wonderful hero and Roxi's equal, strong and determined to have this witch for his own. This story was enough to put me on the hunt for more of her books. Midnight Plane to Georgia by E.C. Sheedy was another surprise as I was not familiar with this author. Tracy Mae Allson has "yessed" herself into a rut. This people-pleaser just can't say no and she's finally had enough. Grabbing the opportunity to help her uncle get a B & B together on the other side of the country, she's all set to put her life in order. Workaholic Colson Jones doesn't have time for a personal life, just drive-by sex between jobs, but he's made an exception for Tracy. And when he falls in love can he get Tracy to revert to her "yessing" ways? Great story. Fall from Grace by Jill Shalvis is, in my opinion, the best story in this anthology. Janie Mills flees from a past that could get her killed. Changing her name, she finds a new life in Grace, Georgia as the town librarian. One night she's attacked by the town's leading citizen and fights back, only to discover that the man she's leveled with a library book isn't the one she was running from. Ryan Peterson is a P.I. with a headache, a wildcat on his hands and a missing client. The last thing he needs is a growing attraction to the mysterious Janie. Can he get her to trust him before somebody kills her? This story is a must read.

"Love Potion #9" by JoAnn Ross. Hollywood comes to Savannah to film the Morganna the witch movie. The flick brings Sloan the Hollywood hunk to the Georgia city where he meets Hex Appeal shop owner Roxi. Neither needs witchcraft to be attracted to one another, but a love spell could not hurt. "Midnight Plane to Georgia" by E.C. Sheedy. Tracy leaves Seattle for a short stay in Parasol, Georgia to start over as her life is in a computer art graphics rut especially with her inability to say no to friends and family. She plans to be "no no Nanette", but writer Colson boards the same plane and knows what he wants, which is Tracey saying "yes yes" like Sally in Harry meets Sally. "Fall from Grace" by Jill Shalvis. When the lights went out in Georgia, librarian Janie realizes that Clayton is lunging towards her. She grabs the Concise Oxford English dictionary in a way she never would have dreamed of slamming it on his head. When the lights return to the town of Grace, Janie realizes that someone else is on the library floor. She knocked out P.I. Ryan with one blow. When he recovers he realizes that he now has two cases to work with, winning the courageous heart of the battling librarian being the more important one. Though geographically Bad Boys Georgia style is more accurate, the latest anthology is a delightful collection that readers of the series like this reviewer will enjoy. Each of the couples makes wonderful matches as the guys work overtime to prove their love, loyalty and longing for the women they love. Harriet Klausner

Bad Boys Southern Style takes you down south for those men and women that you love to read about. JoAnn Ross blends a delightful tale of a magical connection and a searing passion. Roxi Dupree owner of Hex Appeal has agreed to help big time filmmaker Sloan Hawthorne as a favor to her best friend Emma Broussard. Roxi and Sloan have connected in dreams long before their first face-to-face meeting. Their chemistry is explosive but Sloan has his work cut out for him with Roxi's three dates rule. Midnight Plane To Georgia by E. C. Sheedy has Tracy Allson always going the extra mile for others but always gets taken advantage of. She decides going to help her uncle in Georgia will help her redirect her life. But she hadn't planned on the roadblock called Colson Jones. Colson has some time to kill between meetings and somehow is helping fellow traveler Tracy repair her uncles B & B. They both learn valuable lessons from each other along the way find a love worth keeping. Jill Shalvis has a tantalizing tale in Fall From Grace. Janie Mills has reinvented her life in small town Grace, Georgia. She figures working at the library is a safe quiet place to hide from her brother Billy's crimes. When a murder occurs her plans go up in smoke. Janie mistakenly attacks PI Ryan Patrick late one night at work. Ryan was there to track down the person who is blackmailing his client. They are thrown together after the murder and both want to solve the crime. There is something about Janie that strikes a cord in Ryan's heart. He will move heaven and earth to keep her safe. Their relationship starts out under dire circumstances but they realize their feelings are something special. Bad Boys Southern Style is filled with the passion and sultriness of a warm southern night. Each story makes you feel like you are part of that world and you want to stay for a long while. This is an anthology to read this summer

LOVE POTION #9 by JoAnn Ross--Roxi Dupree, the owner of Hex Appeal in the heart of historic Savannah, reluctantly agrees to give Hollywood filmmaker Sloan Hawthorne a little history lesson about the main character in his latest movie. The two immediately realize that they have shared the same intimate dream and their relationship needs no magic or witchcraft to force an attraction. Roxi is fiercely independent and is reluctant to share herself with Sloan. Sloan finds himself bewitched by Roxi and wants much more of her than her standard three date rule will allow. Convincing her that his feelings for her are very real may require more patience and effort than putting together a blockbuster hit.******* MIDNIGHT PLANE TO GEORGIA by E. C. Sheedy--Tracy Allson decides that helping her uncle run his B & B in Georgia will give her the break she needs before setting out on a fresh career path. Little does she know that she will end up hooking up with the gorgeous guy she locks eyes with across the crowded airport. When she arrives at the B & B, her uncle is gone, leaving the house in her hands, which also places Colson Jones in her care, seeing how a change in his travel plans has given him several free days and he decides to stay at the B & B. After the two work on sprucing up the dilapidated house, spending every moment - waking and otherwise - together, they effortlessly strike up an affair hotter than the Georgia sun. When Colson has to leave to continue on his business trip, he finds it's not business as usual trying to convince Tracy to take a chance on a future with him.******* FALL FROM GRACE by Jill Shalvis--Janie Mills starts a new life as a librarian in Grace, Georgia, after witnessing her brother murder her cousin over a bad drug deal one year ago. When PI Ryan Patrick shows up at the library at closing time, sneaking up behind her, the frightened Janie attacks him with a dictionary, fearful for her life. When the two stop scuffling, they hear a gunshot and find one of the town's most beloved men lying dead on the floor. After all of this excitement, Janie's apartment is found to have been ransacked, causing Ryan to take Janie to his island home. These two are immediately on the fast track to spontaneous combustion, completely helpless in their attraction for each other. Despite one surprise after another involving some of the most esteemed members of Grace, Ryan is hopeful that Janie will agree to begin her life anew one more time, this time with him being a permanent part of it.******* This is a wonderfully fun anthology. Being a huge fan of the south, I especially enjoyed the Georgia settings. I highly recommend including these bad boys in your beach bag - you won't be disappointed in this fun summer read!