Skintight
Professional poker player Jax Gallagher should have known better than to wager a World Series baseball that wasn't his to lose. Now the man who won the collectible is demanding his prize…or else. Trouble is, the ball is owned by his estranged father's widow—a flamboyant Las Vegas showgirl. Jax...
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Professional poker player Jax Gallagher should have known better than to wager a World Series baseball that wasn't his to lose. Now the man who won the collectible is demanding his prize…or else. Trouble is, the ball is owned by his estranged father's widow—a flamboyant Las Vegas showgirl. Jax will do whatever it takes to get it back.Yet Treena McCall is anything but the ruthless gold digger Jax expects. She's built a life for herself filled with good friends and hard work. And she's got enough on her plate trying to hang on to her job as a dancer without being wined, dined and seduced by sexy Jax Gallagher….
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780373774579 (0373774575)
Publish date: May 18th 2010
Publisher: HQN Books
Pages no: 361
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...