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"One Woman's Erotic -- and Romantic -- Journey"
Reviewed by Ann Leveille
Courtesy Sensual Romance
Posted March 16, 2003

Austin Gardner has a pretty mundane life. She works as a website designer and lives with her mother. She has no boyfriend, but is content. When Austin is told that she's going to get to make a big presentation, she's ecstatic -- but she's told that she's going to have Read more...

"Well structured read with in-depth characters."
Reviewed by Maryellen Kunkel
Courtesy Sensual Romance
Posted April 11, 2003

Austin Gardner, professional web designer, is stuck in a rut. She takes care of her ailing mother who either criticizes her or ignores her, and she has no social life. With her 35th birthday coming up this weekend, she decides it's time for a change. As she's going home after Read more...

"Can an affair that starts with deception lead to true love?"
Reviewed by Denise Powers
Courtesy Sensual Romance
Posted April 29, 2003

Website designer Austin Gardner realizes as her thirty-fifth birthday approaches that she is dissatisfied with her life. Saddled with her mother, an unhappy woman with a heart problem, Austin has been allowing life to pass her by. After her boss asks her to give an important client presentation, he then tells her to be sure Read more...

Summary

Austin D. Gardner, an award winning web designer in San Francisco, has just faced the fact that she is going to turn thirty-five years old on Saturday and her life is nowhere near what she dreamed it would be. She needs to make big changes.

On the crowded bus trip home, Austin is pushed into a man. Instead of trying to move away, he pulls her to him. Austin is shocked at first, but then lets fate take her by the hand. An anonymous adventure on a crowded bus might be a safe way to break out of the dull life she is living.

Tyler Birch had spent years waiting for Austin to give some indication she would welcome getting to know him better, but time is up. He decided Monday to stop being passive. That afternoon he finds himself pressed against her on the crowded bus trip home. Not one to turn down an opportunity when he's presented with one, Tyler accepts the chance to mount a two-pronged plan of attack. One as the anonymous stranger who can set Austin on fire with his touch, and the other as Tyler Birch who can touch her soul.