"Fun-loving playgirl and conservative businessman -- sharing a sex shop."

Jill Sheldon believes that life is too short not to have fun. Don't get tied down, don't make long-term commitments, don't put off your dreams of adventure and excitement. She certainly is enjoying her job at Just 4 Play - what could be more fun than working in a shop that sells lingerie, sex toys, and related items? And she truly feels that their products help people find pleasure, relaxation, and sexual fulfillment in life; they help customers improve marriages, develop loving relationships. But now the shop and her job are about to end.

Mitch Landry inherited "that smut shop" from his black- sheep uncle. Mitch is an ultra-conservative businessman, concerned about maintaining the right image and a solid position in local society. He's engaged to the very proper daughter of a banker, dresses in boring suits, attends the "right" functions and maintains a very regular and boring lifestyle. He doesn't know the meaning of "fun" -- he's spent his life supporting his mentally ill mother, and now is putting his young sister through college and med school. Just 4 Play just does not fit his image and his plans for the future. He intends to close it and open a restaurant in it's place. Even finding out that the store is far more profitable than any restaurant could ever be does not change his mind -- he can't have people like his fiancee, his banker, and the Chamber of Commerce finding out that he owns a sex shop. And he certainly doesn't want them seeing the store's employees: the manager has a pink mohawk and more body piercings than you can count, and that clerk Jill struts around the store modeling the lingerie and the risqué fantasy costumes!

Jill is determined to save the shop by convincing Mitch that "fun" can be good. Mitch is determined not to let Jill influence his business decisions, even if he does give in to her seduction. But finding out more about the real life of his late Uncle Grif may do more than Jill's antics can to show Mitch that serious purpose and commitment can exist under a light-hearted exterior. It may even make him rethink his own priorities and plans.

There's a lot of erotic fun in this story. Ooh, the descriptions of Just 4 Play's stock, and the things the characters do with the toys and costumes! There is also an absolutely captivating secondary romance, a great example of why women love "bad boys". But the story is more than just froth. Jill's and Mitch's attitudes were molded by their pasts, and they have to face personal memories and issues before being able to consider changing who they are and what they want now. I recommend this book for both the sexy and the serious.

Reviewed by Raelene Gorlinsky
Courtesy Sensual Romance
Posted March 1, 2003

Will six weeks of seduction with his sexy employee Jill Sheldon change uptight businessman Mitch Landry's mind about closing down the sex toy store he inherited? Or will the love games he plays with Jill change his life?

Summary

Jill Sheldon believes in Happy perfume, Miracle Bras, and in not letting a day go by without having fun. Mitch Landry is too busy putting his kid sister through medical school and building a reputation as a solid citizen to have fun. When Mitch inherits Just 4 Play, a sex toy shop where Jill works, he intends to close the place down and open a respectable restaurant. Determined to save the store and her job, Jill decides seducing Mitch will be the perfect way to help him discover all the benefits of the store's merchandise. But can Jill introduce fun into Mitch's life without losing her heart to him?