When I want something fun, with no serious plot lines and no heavy thoughts (just heavy petting), authors Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Jennifer Cruise and Janet Evanovich are my go to girls. These authors bring funny, quirky characters to life for a rollicking good time!
I recently listened to Anna Fields read Phillips’ Natural Born Charmer. Fields has just the right voice for protagonist, Blue Bailey, a down on her luck lady whose ex-boyfriend took all her money.
When the story begins Dean Robillard, a pro football player who is free for the summer due to a shoulder injury, finds our Miss Blue walking down the road in a beaver costume. She has just quit the only job she could find and she is in no mood for jokes from a handsome man in an expensive sports car.
Thus begins the sparing and hilarious banter between two people who perhaps on any other day might not have given each other a second glance. Dean is an insanely handsome, rich, famous man and Blue is not the super model that his kind of man is used to having around. She’s plucky, average looking, smart , smart mouthed and talented. And she could use a job, a place to live and her life back on track.
Both characters have been hurt in their lives and can’t trust anyone enough to form a lasting relationship - - well, until the teary but heartening end. There are laugh out loud lines in this one and enough sexual tension to keep a small town in electricity.