Brazen & Burning

Julie Leto has pulled off another winner in Brazen and Burning. The edgy heroine is a character that grabbed my attention and never let go. The sex is sizzling hot and the hero absolutely yummy.

When Sydney "Slow Burn" Colburn reaches her lifetime goal of debuting at the number one slot of the New York Times best sellers, she is left wondering, "now what?" Now what indeed. After all, she loves her career, she has money, and her love life is varied and remarkable. Yet something seems to be missing. So she sets out to find Adam Brody, the sexy man to whom she refused to risk her heart. She is ready to explore possibilities. She is not ready to discover that Adam has amnesia, and does not remember her.Previously, Sydney has studiously followed her self-imposed rules that protect her heart. Sex is fun and frivolous, never emotional. She never spends the night or talks of allowing a relationship to evolve to the next level. And under no circumstances does she give her heart. Adam was the only man she ever came close to breaking her rules with, and she reacted by departing quickly. When she returned from a book tour, he had disappeared, his condo sold, his business gone. Once she finds him, Sydney is determined to either remind him of what is forgotten, or to create new memories. Author Julie Elizabeth Leto sears the pages in this second offering of the series The Bad Girls Club. With a searing heat and dazzling characterization, BRAZEN & BURNING easily lives up to its title. Sydney revels in her sexuality, never apologizing for her varied and remarkable past nor regretting it. Adam's amnesia affords her the opportunity to discover if she can capture his heart even as she maintains her bad girl ways. Indeed, their memorable encounter of making love under the sprinklers will live in the reader's imagination! Once again Leto demonstrates her remarkable style as she combines the thrill of exhibitionism and the tantalizing possibilities of a sizzling plot. Daring, sexy, and fabulous, BRAZEN & BURNING comes very highly recommended.

I loved this second Bad Girls Club book. I really was curious about Sydney Coleburn after reading Julie Leto's Temptation last year where Sydney was a secondary character. I couldn't imagine how she could turn this wicked romance novelist into a heroine. I just finished Brazen And Burning and can honestly say, she really did it! Sydney's a multi-layered, interesting character who just needs the love of a fabulous hero like Adam to bring that bad girl down. Can't wait for the Tori Carrington book in the series.

Julie Elizabeth Leto has to the one of the hottest writer in series romance. One of Harlequin Temptation's lead writers, she is strong on creating vivid characters, has a wicked sense of humour, but she is so steamy when she comes to interaction between her characters. She is super at creating steamy tension, but there is little need for tension on her newest book. It's all steam!!The leads were lovers before, but both were career-minded so they had little needs of solid relationship. However, he soon wanted more, to move beyond an affair toward marriage, but she panicked and ran. But life has come a calling on Sydney "Slow Burn" Colburn. All her girlfriends have gotten married, so she is now the only bachelorette. She had her newest book finally reach number one on the New York Bestsellers list, life was as she wanted it - and oh so very hallow. After a few days of soul searching and a little prodding from Cassie (from What's Your Pleasure), she figures out needs more substance in her life and when she thought of more she thought of Adam Brody, the man who wanted a life with her.After she panicked and ran from him before, she came back six weeks later to tell him she agreed they had something special and she was willing to take the chance, only to find Adam gone. His business was sold, his condo was sold and no one knew where to find him. But Sydney was not about to let a little thing like that to slow her down. She gets her fiend who is a private eye to track Adam down.What she finds when she confronts him is confusing. Adam is not longer the brilliant architect, he is a construction worker, building custom doll houses for his sister's business.Worse, he claims he does not remember Sydney. Outside of a bruised ego, Sydney knows she is unforgettable being the baddest of the bad girls, so she knows something is very wrong. She quickly learns Adam was nearly killed. The night she ran from him, he was out jogging trying to work off his anger because Sydney left, when he was hit from behind by a hit and run driver. It has taken him a year to reclaim his life, learn to walk and live again. And he knows, while this woman intrigues him, he has nothing to offer her now.But Sydney never liked the word no, so she is not going to let a blank memory slow her down. Also, Sydney holds key information about Adam's accident. She was there when the messenger came to pick up Adam's blueprints - blueprints the courier service claims were never picked up. So she agrees to help Adam to find out what really happened the night someone tried to murder him to cover the theft of his blue prints.Julie once again, gives you a super read with characters that leap off the pages. She is absolutely one of the best and creating such intensely captivating characters, that makes you care about them.