I’ll bet if Julie Garwood tried to write a physics textbook,
she’d somehow manage to turn it into a romance novel. Despite the presence of a
steely-eyed FBI agent at the center of the action of Hotshot, her latest book is more romance than thriller. Her
fans won’t complain—the romance is just fine.
Peyton Lockhart didn’t last long at her job at a prestigious
food magazine. Her creepy boss told her what he wanted to do with her, and it
didn’t involve testing recipes. Peyton quits, but immediately lands on her
feet: in an incredibly fortuitous bit of timing, an uncle tells Peyton and her
sisters that he will give them Bishop’s Cove, his down-at-the-heels Florida resort, provided
they can turn a profit in a short time.
Peyton loves the challenge, but she’s not willing to let her
former boss off the hook. He learns she’s planning to sue for harassment, and
sics his gun-slinging henchmen on her case. Bullet holes in her car, a jealous
cousin who wants in on the Bishop’s Cove deal, and a local developer who wants
the resort for himself mean that Peyton needs protecting. And who better than
devilishly handsome Special Agent Finn MacBain? Finn saved Peyton’s life when
she fell in a swimming pool as a child, so it’s only fitting that he focuses on
saving her life now that she’s all grown up (with a body that was “damn near
perfect,” with “long, gorgeous legs,” and a walk that was “every bit as sexy as
her body”).
If you’re looking for a good mystery that keeps you guessing
until the end, keep looking. This isn’t it.
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