Skintight
Jax Gallagher arrives in Las Vegas to retrieve a valuable autographed baseball in the possession of his estranged father's widow. When getting the ball the honorable way doesn't work, he tries seduction instead-after all, she's a showgirl who married a man old enough to be her father. Only,...
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Jax Gallagher arrives in Las Vegas to retrieve a valuable autographed baseball in the possession of his estranged father's widow. When getting the ball the honorable way doesn't work, he tries seduction instead-after all, she's a showgirl who married a man old enough to be her father. Only, Treena McCall isn't the gold-digger Jax was expecting. Though he knows better than to bet on love, it's a gamble he might be willing to take.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780778322009 (0778322009)
Publish date: July 1st 2005
Publisher: Mira
Pages no: 377
Edition language: English
Series: Showgirls (#1)
Seduce your step-mother in order to rob her? No. No. No. No. No. No. Nooooo. Nonononono. No.I need to look up blurbs and reviews before I start reading these e-books. I get a little ways in and I start to get suspicious... something isn't right here. And I don't mean hints that somebody is hiding so...
This story was so slow moving with the hero worrying about his secret for most of the book. I started skimming pretty early but I did finish. Professional poker player Jax lost his fathers valuable baseball in a game and has to get the ball from his widowed step mom Treena, a Vegas dancer.
An enjoyable book to spend an afternoon with, Jax & Treena are both believable and interesting as are the secondary characters. I'm looking forward to finding and reading the other books in thls series.
Oh yeah, the rating says it all but hear me out anyway. I read chicklit from time to time and thus, happen to encounter certain chicklits I wouldn't mind passing by in the first place. But I pick them up for the hope that they might offer something more than well, the clichéd chicklit. But this? Thi...
I love Jax. He annoys me toward the end, but I still just want to eat him up. I liked a lot about Treena, but the relationship between her and Jax's dad has never made sense to me. The relationship between Jax's dad and Treena kind of squicks me out, too, even though "nothing happened". This did hol...