Designer Passion (Love Spectrum Romance)

True love knows no boundaries. It transcends time, distance, circumstances, and even cultures. In her latest novel, "Designer Passion," author Dar Tomlinson transcends the structured boundaries normally imposed on romance novels to bring a refreshing spin to a story of struggling mutli-cultural love.By mixing in the right amount of passion and intrigue into her writing, Dar Tomlinson's "Designer Passion" is as exciting as an exhilarating morning run down the slopes. Winner of 1998 Hemingway First Novel Award, and considered by many to be one of the freshest new voices in women's fiction, Dar Tomlinson is blazing the trail for the fledgling mutli-cultural arena of romance. Her time has come.

In the Denver area, part Native American Chandler Chesney Baker negotiates a business deal with Holly Harper, a Jew. He offers to invest the needed capital in her financially struggling designer business, Xtreme Skiwear, in exchange for making all the non-creative decisions. Though Holly desperately wants to kick the Oklahoma resident out of her office, she knows the predicament her spouse left her in after he vanished to the Orient. They work out a deal. Chess finds himself filled with desire for Holly, but being an honorable person refuses to act on it because she remains married. Though his seeming opposite in temperament, Holly also starts to fall in love with her noisy partner. Adding to their dilemma is his nasty cousin, and initially the ghost and ultimately the return of her spouse. There appears to be no design available for love to form the lasting relationship this couple deserves. Dar Tomlinson exploded on the multicultural romance sub-genre with her great novel, FORBIDDEN QUEST. Her newest romance, DESIGNER PASSION, will simply delight readers with its deep story line that breaks out of the sub-genre box with an innovative tale. Chess and Holly are the imperfect couple who seems right for each other. Their differences in heritage, religion, philosophy, and temperament would prove difficult for most people to overcome. However, as Ms. Tomlinson demonstrates, love is the ultimate force that crashes all barriers.Harriet Klausner