More Naughty Than Nice

Julie Kistler does a great job with this fun story about going from one extreme to another and trying to find a place where it's balanced in the middle. Stevie is a fun character, trying to be someone she isn't and not willing to go back to the person she used to be. And while Owen seems to want to change her, in reality he just wants to help her find some balance because he knows that what she shows on the outside isn't the real Stevie.The two spar with passion, have great sexual tension and chemistry and Stevie is completely sympathetic. This is a really fast romp of a read!

Stephanie Blanton was upset with the promotion of strawberry deadhead Missy to head up the cosmetics line of Marsh-Penworthy, but boinkability is more important than intelligence and consumer understanding when it comes to male bosses thinking as usual with the wrong head. With the encouragement of her friend Anna and a few drinks, Stephanie decides to stop being the good loyal woman with an empty Christmas stocking and become a bad girl. Her campaign centers on a "stiletto through his heart".Three years later, Stephanie is on tour as the notorious author Stevie Bliss, whose scandalous "how to" book Blissfully Single, has stormed the country. In Chicago, newspaper columnist Owen Dasher interviews the sexy vixen with a hidden agenda. He plans to debunk her theories on love and de-myth the growing legend that surround her exploits even as he wants to have her in his bed permanently.MORE NAUGHTY THAN NICE is a fun holiday romance starring two delightful lead protagonists whose real desires are hidden by outer masks that enable each one of them to masquerade as bed hoppers when they want only each other. The story line never takes itself seriously so that the audience receives an amusing battle of the sexes stuffing stocker. Fans will want Julie Kistler to stay in the same neighborhood telling "Ethel's" tale next.Harriet Klausner